Education in Nepal

In recent years, Nepal has improved both access and equity in education and has succeeded in ensuring all genders are represented equally in primary and secondary classrooms. Building on these successes, Nepal is focused on improving the quality of learning and teaching and addressing persistent inequalities, often as a result of income, location, ability or gender.

The government and its partners agree that the biggest barriers to transformational change fall within three priority areas against a larger backdrop of making the recent federal transition work: quality teaching, early childhood education and gender equality.

To unlock large-scale change, Nepal, with the support of GPE, will work on local and provincial governments’ capacities to ensure that there are enough trained, competent and motivated teachers; early childhood centers meet quality standards to ensure children’s school readiness and the foundations of their development; and schools are more gender sensitive and socially inclusive.

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

• The National Campaign for Education Nepal (NCE-Nepal) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
• The South Asian Assessment Alliance led by Street Child for the 2021-2023 period.
• The Tax Education Alliance (TaxEd) led by ActionAid International for the 2021-2023 period.

Learn more

• Nepal is part of the KIX Europe, Asia and Pacific hub and has a KIX national delegation.
• KIX research projects:
  • A Multi-Modal Approach to Teacher Professional Development in Low Resource Settings
  • Common-scale assessment of early and foundational math learning across the Global South
  • Data-Driven School Improvement - Opportunities, Challenges, and Scalable Solutions
  • Data Must Speak about Positive Deviance Approaches to Learning
  • Effectiveness and Scalability of Programs for Children Who Are Out of School and at Risk of Dropping Out in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal
  • School leaders as agents of change towards equity and inclusion
  • The Impact of Gender and Inclusive Pedagogies on Students’ Participation and Learning Achievement at Secondary School During the Pandemic and Beyond
  • Using data for improving education equity and inclusion – MICS-EAGLE.