The Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF) is a unique and ambitious global programme that supports citizen engagement in education sector policy planning, budgeting and monitoring. CSEF operates in a number of Global Partnership for Education (GPE) affiliated developing countries.CSEF is founded on a shared understanding among key stakeholders that strong, broad-based and locally-driven civil society participation in these processes is crucial to ensuring the delivery of national and international education goals and to holding governments to account for commitments to education.