Partner since:
Total grant support: US$110,659,843
Grant eligibility:
Partnership compact
Priority: Improving teacher delivery and quality for a high-performing, equitable and resilient education system.
Coordinating agency: UNICEF, USAID
GPE Team lead: Adria Rakotoarivony
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:
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.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of government expenditure on education
(data as of March 26, 2025)
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$19,902,007
Grant agent: World Bank
Improve conditions for better learning outcomes, promote girls' access to lower and upper secondary education in underserved regions, and enhance the governance of the education system.
