Academy for Education Development (AED) formally houses the EPDC in the Global Education Center. EPDC benefits from AED’s wide network and resident experts, contributes to AED projects, and has written reports commissioned by AED.

EdStats is the World Bank’s education statistics resource. The EPDC and EdStats collaborate on household survey extractions (see Stata Tutorial) and have harmonized their methodologies and exchanged data for their databases. The EPDC provides EdStats with projection data for primary and secondary pupils as well as education attainment.

The Fast Track Initiative (FTI) is a global partnership to help low-income countries meet the education Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the EFA goal that all children complete a full cycle of primary education by 2015. EPDC and FTI collaborated in 2008 and 2007 to produce the FTI annual reports’ country profiles; the FTI provided EPDC with data while EPDC provided data visualization expertise. See the Education For All FTI Profiles.

Annually, UNESCO produces the EFA Global Monitoring Report, which reviews progress towards Education For All goals. Since 2007, the EPDC has contributed annually to the EFA Global Monitoring Report with special studies. For the 2008, 2009 and 2010 reports, the EPDC provided the education projections. Other analysis has leveraged EPDC household survey expertise. Link to the GMR Background Papers.

In 2009, the EPDC was selected for a Google Challenge Grant to produce an interface to visualize subnational education data and the EPDC’s website tools in Google Earth. Go to Dynamic Maps to see more.

Funded by the OECD, the International Household Survey Network's mission is to improve global household survey practices (SEE MISSION). The EPDC and IHSN have partnered to review household survey education modules and develop better education questionnaires.

Initiated by the task Team on Education Simulation Models, the Inter-Agency Network for Education Simulation Modeling aims to facilitate the exchange of knowlegde in the field of education simulation models.

The EPDC partnered with IIEP to work on training and the projections./p>

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) contributes to EPDC as a member of the Advisory Council. EPDC and UIS regularly consult on education indicator definitions and data extraction methods.

USAID was instrumental in the founding of the center and has been EPDC’s primary funding source. The EPDC provides regular services and analysis for USAID.