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A new fundraising drive is aimed at helping the worldÂ鶹APP™s poorest countries provide basic education for their children.

Key leaders of the agreed to raise £3.5billion over four years to provide essential support.

The GPE, the worldÂ鶹APP™s only multilateral working to increase access to education, said there is now an opportunity to get 16 million children, most of them girls, into school.

 Julia Gillard, chair of the GPE board, said: Â鶹APPœÂ鶹APPœA strong GPE replenishment is critical to seizing the momentum and keeping the progress in global education.

Â鶹APPœDonor nations, developing country partners, civil society, teachers, multilateral organisations and the private sector alike must intensify their current commitments to ensure that the right to education becomes a reality for all children.Â鶹APP�

Each country that receives funding is encouraged to make its education system more efficient, effective and inclusive of girls.Â鶹APP¨

The Global Citizen website is urging people to .

The petition calls for increased financial spport for GPE and for governments to pledge at least 10% of their foreign aid budget to basic education Â鶹APP“ the current level is less than 3% on average.