Partner since:
Total grant support: US$17,499,225
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Achieve quality early childhood learning with equality and inclusion.
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Katherina Hruskovec Gonzalez
As of 2019, more than half of the children in El Salvador at late primary age were not proficient in reading. Many of the students that made it past primary school soon dropped out of secondary school.
El Salvador has prioritized achieving quality early childhood learning, with a focus on equality and inclusion. Working with GPE and its partners, the country aims to increase the access and quality of early childhood learning, especially to girls from the earliest years by revising curriculums, defining quality standards for educational services and developing teacher training with a gender perspective.
Investing in early years will help ensure that all children enter primary education ready to learn and are less likely to fall behind, especially the most vulnerable children.
A $10 million Multiplier grant combined with $5 million from GPE’s Girls’ Education Accelerator will boost efforts to close the gender gap in education in El Salvador. The targeted funding will address harmful social norms from an early age with the creation of gender-sensitive learning materials and gender-equitable learning assessments.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of government expenditure on education
(data as of December 18, 2024)
Type: Multiplier and Girls' Education Accelerator
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$15,000,000
Utilization: US$1,454,458
Grant agent: WB
Type: System capacity
Years: 2022 - 2025
Allocation: US$1,600,000
Utilization: US$283,455
Grant agent: WB
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2020 - 2025
Allocation: US$699,625
Utilization: US$598,927
Grant agent: WB
