Partner since:
Total grant support: US$144,780,831
Grant eligibility:
Education sector plan
Objective: Ensure all learners have access to skills, spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to contribute to economic growth, sustainable development and national cohesion
Coordinating agency: PAM/WFP, PAM/WFP, Action Education
GPE Team lead: Marina Mancinelli
Drawing on the country’s development objectives laid out in the “Vision Bénin Alafia 2025” and approved by the government in June 2018, the Education Sector Plan for 2018-2030 highlights the government's vision that: "In 2030, Benin's education system ensures that all learners, without distinction, have access to the skills, entrepreneurial spirit and innovation that will fulfill them and make them competent and competitive citizens able to ensure economic growth, sustainable development and national cohesion".
The country’s education priorities are based on the policy options and principles mentioned in the sector plan, with particular emphasis on the implementation of the new architecture of the education system:
The local education group helps the government and all partners organize regular joint sector reviews since 2010. All subsectors are represented in the group and participate in decision making.
(data as of August 31, 2023)
Type: System capacity
Years: 2022 - 2025
Allocation: US$585,465
Utilization: US$32,391
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2020 - 2024
Allocation: US$19,400,000
Utilization: US$13,917,080
Grant agent: WB
Enhance the quality of teaching and learning in basic education, focusing on the early years of primary school, and improve equity in primary education.
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$7,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program development
Years: 2018 - 2019
Allocation: US$198,507
Utilization: US$198,507
Grant agent: WB
Type: Sector Plan Development
Years: 2016 - 2018
Allocation: US$402,096
Utilization: US$402,096
Grant agent: SDC
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2014 - 2018
Allocation: US$42,030,538
Utilization: US$42,030,538
Grant agent: WB
Improve access and equity, and quality of classroom instruction at the basic education level, with particular emphasis on deprived districts
Type: Sector Plan Development
Years: 2012 - 2013
Allocation: US$56,200
Utilization: US$38,034
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2008 - 2012
Allocation: US$75,108,025
Utilization: US$75,108,025
Grant agent: WB
Expand equitable access to preschool and primary education and support the development of literacy programs, while improving quality and retention at primary level as well as the management of the sector.
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
