Partner since:
Total grant support: US$78,879,380
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Improving gender equality, equitable access to education, and ensure quality teaching and learning.
Coordinating agency: FCDO
GPE Team lead: Lucinda Ramos
In Zimbabwe, about two-thirds of school age children go to school. Access to, as well as the quality of, their education is often related to where they live. Children in rural and remote areas struggle to access education, as do children with disabilities and children from families who cannot afford school fees.
Other challenges include under-resourced schools, lack of infrastructure and the effects of disasters on infrastructure. Poor learning outcomes also influence a family's decision on whether to send their child to school.
GPE is supporting the government and partners to achieve transformational change through Zimbabwe’s priority reform area: equitable access to relevant quality education for all children.
Increasing the number of schools with safe and appropriate infrastructure, establishing a system to identify children at risk of dropping out, improving foundational literacy and numeracy for learners, and enhancing teachers’ capacity to deliver quality education will help get more children into school, prevent dropout and improve learning outcomes.
Key to achieving change at scale is Zimbabwe's equitable financing commitment, targeting funding to the poorest and most marginalized schools.
(data as of August 31, 2023)
Type: Program development
Years: 2023
Allocation: US$199,880
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$2,955,955
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2021 - 2024
Allocation: US$344,005
Utilization: US$66,279
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$7,000,000
Utilization: US$5,263,010
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2020 - 2021
Allocation: US$2,340,000
Utilization: US$2,321,743
Grant agent: Save the Children UK
Type: Program implementation and multiplier
Years: 2016 - 2022
Allocation: US$42,200,000
Utilization: US$40,150,064
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2014 - 2016
Allocation: US$23,600,000
Utilization: US$23,600,000
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Sector Plan Development
Years: 2012 - 2013
Allocation: US$239,540
Utilization: US$239,540
Grant agent: WB
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
