Education in Mozambique

Mozambique’s net primary school enrollment rate is 99%, but less than half of students complete primary education. Education system challenges include management inefficiencies, protracted conflicts in the north, recurrent natural disasters, and rising socio-economic vulnerabilities.

The government is working with GPE and other partners to improve the service delivery and quality of basic education.

Mozambique’s Partnership Compact commits to transform delivery of education by removing procedural and institutional barriers which have negatively impacted policy implementation and resulted in poor retention and learning.

To unlock large-scale and sustainable change, interventions are planned across five outcome areas: improved teaching; improved gender equity; improved management of education systems (at national and school levels); improved school environment; and improved learning outcomes.

By strengthening service delivery, Mozambique aims to strengthen learning in the first cycle of primary education and ensure student retention until grade 9.

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

• Movimento de Educação Para Todos for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
• Transnational Networks Advocacy Capacity strengthened for improved ECDE legislation, policies and measures in Southern Africa (TRANAC) led by Zimbabwe Network of Early Childhood Development (ZINECDA) for the 2021-2023 period.
• Addressing the learning crisis through system strengthening led by Global Integrity for the 2021-2024 period.

Learn more

• Mozambique is part of the KIX Africa 19 hub.
• KIX research projects:
  • Common-scale assessment of early and foundational math learning across the Global South
  • Gender Responsive Education and Transformation - Early Childhood Education through Play for Scale in Mozambique and Rwanda (GREAT-ECE)
  • Observatory on COVID-19 Responses in Educational Systems in Africa