Partner since:
Total grant support: US$135,592,927
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Improve foundational learning by strengthening teaching and learning practices with a focus on gender equality.
Coordinating agency: USAID, UNESCO
GPE Team lead: Plamen Danchev
Ghana has improved basic education access and quality, but persistent challenges include over-age and under-age enrollment at the lower primary level, more than 1 million out-of-school children, and geographic disparities in learning.
To unlock large-scale change, the government is working with GPE and other partners to improve foundational learning for all.
The priority reform, as outlined in Ghana’s Partnership Compact, aims to boost literacy, numeracy and socio-emotional skills for children in kindergarten to grade 3. Plans to strengthen teaching include level-appropriate, inclusive, gender-responsive and play-based pedagogies and learning materials.
To address the high number of out-of-school children, Ghana seeks to make schools safe and violence-free, provide remedial education to students who have fallen behind, and improve community engagement and attitudes, especially towards girls’ education, children with disabilities and child labor.
A focus on better sector governance aims to equitably deploy teachers, improve data collection and use, and establish school-community structures, such as parent-teacher associations, that support planning and monitoring.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications
of government expenditure on education
(data as of November 21, 2024)
Type: Program development
Years: 2024
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation and Multiplier
Years: 2020 - 2025
Allocation: US$24,400,000
Utilization: US$12,344,293
Grant agent: WB
Improve the quality of education in low performing basic education schools and strengthen education sector equity and accountability.
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
