A Partnership compact is a systems Capacity and Transformation Grant and it is a new funding model by the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). Kenya is one of the pilot countries. The others were; Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Uganda and Tajikistan. Since then the system is being adapted globally.
The model was proposed out of the realization that GPE was not adequately leveraged as a Partnership and Donor alignment and harmonization was not consistently practiced.
Additionally, there was also the need for expanded support for Capacity building and evidence also suggested that there was little learning on drivers of system wide change and delivery of impact at scale. As a result the Education Plan grant was converted into system capacity grant.
The new funding model is aimed at realizing a mutual accountability among country level partners through a partnership compact. It entails supporting a sound analysis of context to enable evidence based identification of system transformation priorities and focus of partner support, including from the GPE fund.
Kenya has already completed the development of the Partnership compact and is in the implementation phase which ends in 2025. The first product of the partnership compact is the Kenya Primary Education Equity in Learning Program (KPEEL) and Coalition is actively monitoring its implementation.