Partner since:
Total grant support: US$62,538,255
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Strengthening the quality of education and increasing the coverage of early childhood education, including a gender component.
Coordinating agency: UNESCO
GPE Team lead: Javier Luque
Nicaragua has increased enrollment in primary education, but low learning levels and high numbers of out-of-school children, especially in rural areas, call for transformative change.
The government is working with GPE and other partners to strengthen the quality of education and increase the coverage of early childhood education, with a gender component.
Aligned with the national Education Plan for 2022-2026, Nicaragua’s Partnership Compact prioritizes early learning and builds on previous GPE-supported interventions.
Nicaragua aims to boost the knowledge and skills of teachers through better training and improve the conditions of early learning infrastructure by ensuring safe, accessible, and comfortable spaces that promote child development.
Strengthening institutional monitoring of the education system, especially at the early childhood level, is expected to contribute to better quality and higher enrollment. Transversal to all planned interventions is a commitment to gender-responsive policy planning and implementation.
of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications
of government expenditure on education
(data as of December 21, 2024)
Type: System capacity
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$1,300,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: System transformation
Years: 2024 - 2027
Allocation: US$4,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2023 - 2025
Allocation: US$1,000,000
Utilization: US$84,154
Grant agent: UNICEF
