Education in Afghanistan
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$214,743,635
Grant eligibility:
- Multiplier
- Girls' Education Accelerator
- System capacity
- System transformation
Coordinating agency: UNESCO, USAID
GPE Team lead: Javier Luque
Grants
(data as of November 19, 2024)
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Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: Save the Children UK
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Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: AKF
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$50,000,000
Utilization: US$5,033,682
Grant agent: Save the Children UK
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Objectives
Children, particularly girls, are supported to continue and stay in safe spaces of learning by:
- Improving school infrastructure
- Providing supplies and textbooks
- Strengthening teaching of math and reading, and classroom management
- Training young women to become primary school teachers.
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Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$4,999,940
Utilization: US$1,267,988
Grant agent: UNESCO
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2023 - 2025
Allocation: US$59,500,000
Utilization: US$9,652,897
Grant agent: UNICEF
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Objectives
Children, particularly girls, are supported to continue and stay in safe spaces of learning by:
- Improving school infrastructure
- Providing supplies and textbooks
- Strengthening teaching of math and reading, and classroom management
- Training young women to become primary school teachers.
Latest blogs and news
December 14, 2023
GPE has approved grants totaling $110 million to support the education of more than 7.66 million children in Afghanistan over the next two years.
November 06, 2023
Read how GPE’s participation at the 2023 Human Rights Film Festival Berlin helped to raise awareness and advocate for girls’ education in some of the world’s most challenging contexts.
March 21, 2023
Statement by Laura Frigenti, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education