Education in Ethiopia
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$698,052,518
Grant eligibility:
- Multiplier
- Girls' Education Accelerator
- System capacity
- System transformation
Transforming education in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has achieved remarkable progress in expanding access to education over the past twenty years, but challenges related to equity remain significant, and learning outcomes have declined in recent years.
Numerous crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict situations, drought and floods have forced millions of children out of school since 2021. As of 2022, around 90% of 10-year-old children lacked basic reading skills.
Ethiopia is working with GPE and other partners to improve learning outcomes with a focus on equity. As prioritized in the country’s Education Sector Development Plan 2020-2025, the government aims to enhance the quality of teaching and learning by better supporting school leaders and teachers with training, aligning teaching and learning materials to the new curriculum, and establishing more effective quality assurance mechanisms.
To improve access to education, Ethiopia and partners will reconstruct damaged schools, establish school feeding programs where needed, and implement accelerated learning programs for children who have dropped out of school.
Additional interventions to make the education in Ethiopia more equitable and inclusive include community awareness programs on the barriers to education for girls and children with disabilities, among others.
Result story
Key data
30%
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
42%
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
Grants
(data as of December 22, 2024)
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Type: System transformation and Girls' Education Accelerator
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$132,590,000
Utilization: US$163,039
Grant agent: UNICEF
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Objectives
- Improve national learning outcomes with a focus on improvement in the poorest performing regions and reduced disparities in girls and boys learning
- Increase grade 6 and 8 completion rates, especially in regions below national average
- Increase gender parity at all levels of education, especially in regions below national average
- Reduce primary dropout rate, especially in regions below national average
- Reduce number of out of school children due to conflict
- Increase enrollment of girls, children with special educational needs and students in pastoralist regions.
Documents
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Type: System capacity
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$4,100,000
Utilization: US$11,323
Grant agent: WB
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Type: Multiplier
Years: 2024 - 2026
Allocation: US$2,572,779
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
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Objective
- Ensure that children and caregivers in selected zones in Amhara and Tigray regions access quality basic social services focusing on education and water & sanitation.
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Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: WB
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2021 - 2025
Allocation: US$125,000,000
Utilization: US$88,987,483
Grant agent: WB
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Objectives:
Improve internal efficiency, equitable access, and quality in general education through:
- Training teachers, including in digital skills, and updating the licensing assessments
- Providing teaching and learning materials
- Building new classrooms
- Establishing new inclusive education centers
- Enrolling children with disabilities and special needs
Documents:
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Type: Multiplier
Years: 2021 - 2025
Allocation: US$20,000,000
Utilization: US$12,800,000
Grant agent: WB
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Objectives:
- Harmonize services at refugee primary schools
- Integrate refugee secondary education
- Innovate to address key challenges in refugee education
- Scale up the Investment Project Financing to support capacity building activities
Document:
Civil society engagement
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 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
Knowledge and innovation
- Ethiopia is part of the KIX Africa 19 regional hub.
- KIX research projects:
- Better inclusive early learning and development at scale (BIELDS)
- Scaling-up innovative gender, inclusion and safeguarding approaches in education: Evidence from Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia
- ‘Tuseme’ innovation strategies for achieving gender equality and social inclusion in refugee and internally displaced communities
- Women in learning leadership: Advancing gender-responsive education using evidence
Latest blogs and news
December 12, 2024
How GPE Knowledge and Innovation Exchange is supporting the scaling of promising or proven innovations that address education access and retention for out-of-school children and youth.
November 20, 2024
In Tigray, Ethiopia, programs supported by The Luminos Fund help thousands of out-of-school children catch up to grade level, reintegrate into government schools and prepare for lifelong learning.
October 16, 2024
The GPE KIX Africa 19 Hub supports countries to strengthen teacher policies through networking, peer learning and knowledge sharing. This helps better support, motivate and empower teachers.