Partner since:
Total grant support: US$213,275,455
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Improve instructional time for better learning and greater efficiency.
Coordinating agency: Swiss Development Cooperation, UNICEF Niger
GPE Team lead: Talia Miranda
In Niger, children face numerous obstacles to accessing and completing education, particularly girls living in rural areas.
Poor infrastructure, teacher absenteeism, an outdated curriculum and a lack of teaching and learning materials result in lost learning time – up to one-third of the school year for many children. By the end of primary education, only 30% of students have mastered basic reading skills and 23% math skills, making it difficult to progress through the education system. The dropout rate for grade 6 students is 33% for girls and 28% for boys.
Given how much of the school year is lost in Niger, the government is working with GPE and other partners to improve instructional time for better learning and greater efficiency.
Niger plans to replace over 36,000 straw hut classrooms, which are vulnerable to bad weather and fires, and build additional classrooms, dormitories to help retain girls in secondary education, and learning centers in conflict areas to ensure the most vulnerable students have better access to education.
Additionally, reforming teacher development, deployment, status and career ladders aims to decrease teacher absenteeism and increase teacher effectiveness in the classroom; and curriculum redesign will focus on core subjects, early grades, use of national languages and scripted lesson tools to make the best use of learning time.
Transversal to Niger’s efforts to transform its education system is a commitment to gender-responsive planning and policy development.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
(data as of December 22, 2024)
Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$110,202
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2020 - 2024
Allocation: US$85,100,034
Utilization: US$69,828,908
Grant agent: AFD
Support the implementation of the transition plan for the education and training sector, contributing to sustained improvement in terms of equity, learning outcomes and efficiency.
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
