Xavier Rambla Sociologia

The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) collaborates with international organisations such as the Global Partnership for Education in order to foster progress towards the Education for All goals. To be precise, the Campaing claims that the involvement of the civil society is crucial for achieving these goals, since civil society organisations can raise awareness, put pressure on governments, provide services and become sustainable by means of institutional learning. It has been in charge of the Civil Society Education Fund.

The GCE was created by a coalition of NGOs and teacher unions in order to monitor the real deployment of the EFA programme. To the extent that these members have regional and national branches in Africa, Asia and Latin America, it has become an international player with a pluriscalar organisation.

Current debates on the global civil society suggest some questions about the role of the GCE. Particularly, some views highlight the innovative features of its organisation and activities, while other are concerned with the potential subordination of political actors likle the GCE to governments and international organisations. Can these innovation and subordination effects be observed in the case of the GCE?