Partner since:
Total grant support: US$265,273,224
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Quality teaching, Early childhood education, Gender equality.
Coordinating agency: Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway, World Bank
GPE Team lead: Hoa Tran Ringrose
In recent years, Nepal has improved both access and equity in education and has succeeded in ensuring all genders are represented equally in primary and secondary classrooms. Building on these successes, Nepal is focused on improving the quality of learning and teaching and addressing persistent inequalities, often as a result of income, location, ability or gender.
The government and its partners agree that the biggest barriers to transformational change fall within three priority areas against a larger backdrop of making the recent federal transition work: quality teaching, early childhood education and gender equality.
To unlock large-scale change, Nepal, with the support of GPE, will work on local and provincial governments’ capacities to ensure that there are enough trained, competent and motivated teachers; early childhood centers meet quality standards to ensure children’s school readiness and the foundations of their development; and schools are more gender sensitive and socially inclusive.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications
of government expenditure on education
(data as of March 26, 2025)
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2025 - 2027
Allocation: US$28,166,666
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF, World Bank
Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$59,500
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$139,192
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$3,399,604
Utilization: US$572,057
Grant agent: UNICEF, World Bank
Type: System transformation
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$20,000,000
Utilization: US$13,953,464
Grant agent: World Bank
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
