Advocacy is the GCE’s fundamental role to promote and defend the human right to education. It is a political process involving differentiated strategic approaches that aim to strengthen the movement and end exclusion in education, thereby bringing transformation and lasting change.

GCE advocacy is evidenced-based, inspired by its Constitution, By-laws, policy resolutions, briefings and research. This process involves undertaking comprehensive action at multiple levels, through a series of activities, with diverse stakeholders in order to yield political influence, seek dialogue, persuade and thereby influence decisions to address: the regressive trends of national and international financing for education, privatization, the reductionist views on curriculum development and the barriers that affect the population discriminated against.