Partner since:
Total grant support: US$9,465,483
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Improve literacy rates in primary school, by ensuring equitable allocation and implementation of innovative resources, while fostering a holistic curriculum.
Coordinating agency: Australian High Commission, Vanuatu
GPE Team lead: Daisuke Kanazawa
Vanuatu has achieved universal primary education, but enrollment in secondary education is low. The Pacific Islands Literacy and Numeracy Assessment 2021 revealed that 79% of year 4 students did not meet the minimum reading proficiency standard.
To help students acquire the basic competencies needed to advance through the education system, Vanuatu is working with GPE and other partners to improve literacy rates in primary school by ensuring equitable allocation and implementation of innovative resources, while fostering a holistic curriculum.
Vanuatu’s Partnership Compact details plans to affect transformative change, including improving the skills and knowledge of school leaders and teachers to lead and implement the curriculum.
Equipping classrooms with culturally appropriate literacy materials, expanding access to digital literacy resources, and encouraging families to support their child’s reading journey are expected to help boost literacy.Better education data collection and analysis will strengthen policy planning, and better resource allocation will address inequities between genders, provinces, language groups, geographic location and learning abilities.
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 December 21, 2024)
Type: System transformation
Years: 2024 - 2027
Allocation: US$2,500,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: Save the Children Australia
Type: System capacity
Years: 2024 - 2026
Allocation: US$1,150,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: Save the Children Australia
Type: Program development
Years: 2024
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: Save the Children Australia
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting Kolisen Blong Leftemap Edukesen (KoBLE) for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
