A 4th grade student at Felege Abay Elementary School, Bahar Dar, Ethiopia. Credit: GPE/Kelley Lynch

Partner since:

Total grant support: US$558,450,401

Grant eligibility:

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

Education sector plan

Objective: Address education challenges with the vision to transform society through harnessing the full potential of learners to become productive citizens.

Other key documents

Coordinating agency: Royal Norwegian Embassy, USAID

GPE Team lead: Subrata S. Dhar

Transforming education in Ethiopia

Although Ethiopia has achieved remarkable progress in expanding access to education over the past twenty years, the challenges related to equity, efficiency and learning outcomes remain significant.

The country's Education Sector Development Plan 2020-2025, developed with GPE support, has been designed to address these challenges, with the vision to transform society through harnessing the full potential of learners to become productive citizens. The education plan aims to enhance education and training by:

  • Establishing an effective educational management and administration system with sector-wide accountability.
  • Developing ethical, civic, and moral values in learners.
  • Improving the quality of general education.
  • Improving equitable access and internal efficiency from pre-primary to secondary education.
  • Building a learning society linked to a lifelong learning opportunity that meets the diverse learning needs of young people and adults.
  • Building an effective and efficient education system using digital technology.
  • Putting in place a rigorous, systematic, and objective quality assurance system to monitor schools, colleges of teachers' education and adult and non-formal education centers' performance.

Result story

Ethiopia: A long-term commitment to education spurs results

  • Since 2008, GPE grants totaling US$368 million have supported education reforms through the General Education Quality Improvement Program (GEQIP) to improve the quality of teaching and learning in Ethiopia’s 40,000 schools.
  • GPE’s support to Ethiopia aimed to train teachers, provide effective learning materials, and develop relevant curricula, among other interventions.
  • Results are palpable: According to a national learning assessment, students’ proficiency in all subjects increased by 57% in grade 4 and by 120% in grade 8 between 2011 and 2015.

Grants

(data as of August 31, 2023)

  • Type: Accelerated funding

    Years: 2022 - 2023

    Allocation: US$10,000,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: Save the Children UK

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2021 - 2024

    Allocation: US$125,000,000

    Utilization: US$35,900,961

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Multiplier

    Years: 2021 - 2025

    Allocation: US$20,000,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: COVID-19

    Years: 2020 - 2022

    Allocation: US$15,000,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Accelerated funding

    Years: 2020 - 2022

    Allocation: US$20,000,000

    Utilization: US$9,987,212

    Grant agent: Save the Children UK

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2019 - 2021

    Allocation: US$199,923

    Utilization: US$199,971

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Sector Plan Development

    Years: 2019 - 2021

    Allocation: US$500,000

    Utilization: US$465,000

    Grant agent: UNESCO

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2017 - 2019

    Allocation: US$100,000,000

    Utilization: US$89,991,617

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Sector Plan Development

    Years: 2016

    Allocation: US$187,170

    Utilization: US$187,170

    Grant agent: UNICEF

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2016 - 2017

    Allocation: US$199,000

    Utilization: US$196,999

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2014 - 2018

    Allocation: US$100,000,000

    Utilization: US$100,000,000

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2010 - 2013

    Allocation: US$97,828,573

    Utilization: US$97,828,573

    Grant agent: WB

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2008 - 2013

    Allocation: US$69,535,734

    Utilization: US$69,535,734

    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 Basic Education Network Ethiopia (BEN-E) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).

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