Review of the global education cluster co-leadership arrangement

The Global Education Cluster co-lead arrangement is predicated on the expectation that a UN/NGO partnership might add value to the work of a cluster. As one of the last in a series of clusters to be created – and one which was controversial at the time – the Global Education Cluster offered an appropriate and timely vehicle for this pioneering experiment. The purpose of this review is to help inform the forthcoming Global Education Cluster evaluation, and to suggest improvements in the co-leadership arrangement’s management and operations. The approach taken by The Partnering Initiative, as the commissioned consultants for the review, emphasises an analysis of the co-lead arrangement as an actual or potential cross-sector partnership which can be further developed and refined in order to benefit the Global Education Cluster.

ThE management response to a joint review (the 2010 review of the Global Education Cluster) includes a matrix of recommendations, responses, and action points with responsible parties and target dates. In it, UNICEF and Save the Children confirm their commitments to the co-lead arrangement and the Education Cluster’s work.