Education in Kenya

Significant progress have been made to expand access to education in Kenya and improve learning. Still persistent challenges remain – like regional and gender disparities and inequitable access to learning – which demand transformative solutions.

GPE is helping the government and its partners to prioritize equitable solutions to improving learning outcomes. Working with GPE and other partners, Kenya will boost the quality of teaching, learning and pre-primary education with attention to enhancing equity, access and inclusion and achieving gender parity.

This will be done through better curriculum support materials, more robust use of technology to help implement competency-based curriculums and assessment, and school-based teacher development.

Steps to increase access to learning also include providing meals and improving water, sanitation and hygiene as well as learning environments.

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:

• Elimu Yetu Coalition for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
• Pamodzi for Inclusive Education in South-East Africa (PIESEA) led by Rays of Hope for the 2021-2024 period.

Learn more

• Kenya is part of the KIX Africa 19 hub.
• KIX research projects:
• The inclusive home-based early learning project
• The Back2School Project: Scaling an accelerated learning model for out-of-school girls in rural communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania
• Observatory on COVID-19 responses in educational systems in Africa
• Strengthening school based in-service teacher mentorship and support
• Adapting assessment into policy and learning (ADAPT): Adolescent 21^st Century skills in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania
• Common-scale assessment of early and foundational math learning across the global south
• Promoting positive early learning outcomes through strengthened capacity in learning through play - Evidence from Nigeria, the Gambia and Kenya
• Using technology to improve literacy in the Global South