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Global Action Week for Education (GAWE)
Global Action Week for Education (GAWE) is GCE’s flagship annual mobilisation, uniting activists, learners, educators and communities worldwide to demand governments fulfil their promises on the right to inclusive, quality public education for all. Each year, the campaign focuses attention on a priority theme drawn from GCE’s strategic plan, connecting local struggles to global advocacy on transforming education, education in emergencies and crises, and education financing.
What is the Global Action Week for Education (GAWE)?
GAWE is one of the most important moments in the education movement calendar, providing a common platform for coordinated national and regional actions across dozens of countries. During GAWE, millions of people join public events, policy dialogues, media actions and digital campaigns to highlight education injustices and press decision-makers to act.
How GAWE Links to GCE’s Strategy
GAWE is a core tool for advancing GCE’s campaign priorities on transforming education systems, protecting education in emergencies and closing education financing gaps. The week of action helps to “reignite and grow the influence of the global movement for education” by stepping up advocacy visibility, expanding alliances and strengthening collective pressure on governments and international actors.
Recent Campaign Themes
Education Justice and Decolonising Education Financing
Recent GAWE editions have focused on investing in a just world and decolonising education financing, calling on governments to comply with the Transforming Education Summit Call to Action on Financing.
Education in Emergencies: Education Saves Lives
GAWE 2025 highlighted “Education Saves Lives: Protect Education in Emergencies”, stressing that education is lifesaving and protective in contexts of conflict, climate crisis and displacement, and urging sustainable funding for education in emergencies.
What Happens During GAWE?
Across the week, GCE members and partners organise:
- National and local activities such as community forums, school-based events, marches, public hearings and meetings with parliamentarians and ministries of education.
- Global and regional online events, media and social media actions, and joint statements that amplify shared messages and connect country experiences to global policy spaces.
How To Get Involved
National coalitions, civil society organisations, youth and student groups, teachers’ unions and communities can all take part in GAWE by using GCE’s campaign packs, adapting common messages and organising actions that respond to their context. By joining GAWE, they help build a stronger global movement that keeps education high on the political agenda and pushes for concrete policy and financing changes in line with SDG 4.
Click HERE to read GCE Report on GAWE 2025.
