Partner since:
Total grant support: US$304,155,025
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Ensure inclusive quality teaching and learning for all girls and boys.
Coordinating agency: FCDO
GPE Team lead: Subrata S. Dhar
Rwanda’s commitment to providing quality education for all children includes the introduction of free basic education and a competence-based curriculum. The uptake of primary education is high with net enrollment near 99%. However, upon completing primary education, many children are not equipped with foundational skills.
The education system has high rates of repetition, dropout and over-age children. To unlock large-scale change, Rwanda is working with GPE and other partners to improve inclusive quality teaching and learning.
The government and partners agree on the need to boost foundational literacy and numeracy and will harmonize interventions to improve the quality of instruction at pre-primary and lower primary levels. Teachers will be trained in learner-centered and inclusive pedagogies and equipped with new teaching and learning materials that are better aligned with the curriculum.
Additionally, Rwanda aims to ensure timely enrolment in and progression throughout education. This requires mobilizing parents and communities to support education, constructing more pre-primary classrooms to increase enrollment, establishing early identification of children with disabilities, and implementing remedial learning programs.
Measures to enhance education sector management, such as improving the collection and use of gender and disability data, will help Rwanda to better serve all students, including the most vulnerable.
(data as of May 09, 2024)
Type: System transformation
Years: 2023 - 2028
Allocation: US$31,290,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Ensure inclusive and high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for both girls and boys through:
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$1,177,715
Utilization: US$224,071
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$195,500
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2022 - 2026
Allocation: US$30,000,000
Utilization: US$3,763,755
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2020 - 2024
Allocation: US$30,800,000
Utilization: US$20,023,292
Grant agent: UNICEF
Enhance quality and efficiency with inclusivity in basic education for a knowledge-based economy.
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting Rwanda Education For All Coalition (REFAC) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
