Girl students attentively follow the lesson in a classroom in Mali. Credit: World Bank/Ollivier Girard

Partner since:

Total grant support: US$110,659,843

Grant eligibility:

  • Multiplier
  • Girls' Education Accelerator
  • System capacity
  • System transformation

Partnership compact

Priority: Improving teacher delivery and quality for a high-performing, equitable and resilient education system.

Other key documents

Coordinating agency: UNICEF

GPE Team lead: Adria Rakotoarivony

Transforming education in Mali

In Mali, only 10% of 10-year-olds can read and understand a simple text. While enrollment in school has increased, almost half of children ages 6-14 remain out of school.

Protracted conflict has severely impacted education delivery, and those facing the greatest barriers to education include children in rural areas, from poor families and girls.

The government is working with GPE and other partners to address challenges with a focus on improving teacher delivery and quality for a high-performing, equitable and resilient education system.

Mali’s Partnership Compact describes plans to:

  1. Strengthen decentralized teacher management
  2. Improve teacher professional development
  3. Ensure pedagogical continuity in a context of crisis, and
  4. Ensure critical factors for teacher’s delivery of the curriculum, including improvements to the learning environment.

Transversal to planned interventions is a commitment to gender-responsive policy planning and implementation, aiming at eliminating barriers faced by girls to access and stay in school.

Result story

Mali: Transporting school supplies to students in conflict-affected areas

In Mali, a GPE grant, managed by the World Bank, is helping the ministry of education distribute school kits to children to ensure they can continue learning even in times of conflict.

Key data

44%

out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age

21%

of government expenditure on education

Grants

(data as of December 23, 2024)

 
  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2024 - 2025

    Allocation: US$400,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: UNESCO, UNICEF

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2021 - 2027

    Allocation: US$45,700,000

    Utilization: US$19,870,681

    Grant agent: WB

Civil society engagement

  • As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting Girls Not Brides for the 2024-2026 period.

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