The Education for All - Fast-track Initiative (FTI) is a global partnership between donor and developing countries to ensure accelerated progress towards the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015. All low-income countries which demonstrate serious commitment to achieve universal primary completion can receive support from FTI. World leaders recognized that with 100 million children out of school, it would be impossible to achieve universal primary education without drastic efforts. In response, in 2002, the Education for All Fast Track Initiative (FTI) was created as the first ever global compact on education, to help low-income countries achieve a free, universal basic education by 2015.