What is the Fast-Track Initiative?
• The Fast-Track Initiative is a results-based education initiative launched in June 2002. It grew out of a meeting of heads of state in March 2002 that resulted in the Monterrey Consensus, a commitment by nations to provide the means to attack poverty worldwide. The initiative is driven by a partnership of education donors and low-income countries that are focused on accelerating progress toward the education Millennium Development Goal. This new development compact for education committed donors to coordinate and provide additional policy, data, capacity building and financial support to countries that, in turn, commit to prioritize primary education for all children and implement policies that improve the quality and efficiency of their primary education systems and agree to be accountable for results. FTI now has more than 30 bilateral and multi-lateral donor partners and 19 partner countries. An estimated 44 additional countries will be ready to have their education plans endorsed
