A teacher and her students in class at the community preschool in Nambirghékaha, near Korhogo, Côte d’Ivoire. Credit: GPE/Rodrig Mbock

Partner since:

Total grant support: US$120,980,137

Grant eligibility:

  • Multiplier
  • Multiplier and girls' education accelerator
  • System capacity
  • System transformation

Partnership Compact

Priority: Transform the organization and management of the education system.

Other key documents

Coordinating agency: Fondation Jacobs

GPE Team lead: Christophe Deconinck, Ludovic Signarbieux

Transforming education in Côte d'Ivoire

As the primary system approaches universal access and, eventually, universal primary completion, the country will need to significantly improve the quality of education as well as adapt the access to schooling to accommodate children who live in isolated rural communities, in "encampments" and work on plantations, or in national forests, these in addition to children who have special needs.

The ten-year Education and Training Sector Plan was appraised in 2016, adopted by the government in May 2017 and endorsed by the development partners.

The sector plan's costed multi-year action plan covers the period 2017–2020 and includes a total of 19 sources of external funding.

Result story

Côte d’Ivoire: the promise of early grade reading programs and how to adjust during COVID-19

GPE is supporting an early grade reading intervention in around 150 schools in the most challenged regions in Côte d’Ivoire. View which measures are being taken to ensure learning continues amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Grants

(data as of August 31, 2023)

  • Type: Multiplier

    Years: 2023 - 2027

    Allocation: US$15,000,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2022

    Allocation: US$200,000

    Utilization: US$199,608

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: System capacity

    Years: 2022 - 2023

    Allocation: US$112,984

    Utilization: US$103,086

    Grant agent: UNESCO

  • Type: System capacity

    Years: 2021 - 2025

    Allocation: US$700,000

    Utilization: US$399,535

    Grant agent: UNICEF

  • Type: COVID-19

    Years: 2020 - 2021

    Allocation: US$11,000,000

    Utilization: US$10,999,302

    Grant agent: UNICEF

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2018 - 2019

    Allocation: US$97,277

    Utilization: US$97,277

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2018 - 2024

    Allocation: US$52,100,000

    Utilization: US$46,349,526

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2017 - 2018

    Allocation: US$200,000

    Utilization: US$170,195

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Sector Plan Development

    Years: 2016 - 2017

    Allocation: US$220,219

    Utilization: US$220,219

    Grant agent: UNICEF

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2012 - 2017

    Allocation: US$41,349,656

    Utilization: US$41,349,656

    Grant agent: WB

Advocacy

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Réseau Ivoirien pour la Promotion de l’Éducation Pour Tous (RIP-EPT) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).

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Latest blogs and news

June 05, 2023
Learning better in Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d’Ivoire wants to improve children learning and bring back those who are not in school in the formal system through catch up classes. A program targets 6 regions that have the highest poverty rates and the lowest...