Education in Senegal
![Maka Dieng Primary School in Tivaouane, Senegal. Credit: GPE/Chantal Rigaud](https://assets.globalpartnership.org/s3fs-public/styles/hero_stories/public/2023-08/23848531761_a3b240e5f5_k.jpg?VersionId=uPtvVUwWQ15yCaT_TaNZ8_iu80F3yywB&itok=siNXTkIa)
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$176,148,059
Grant eligibility:
- Multiplier
- System capacity
- System transformation
Partnership Compact
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Arianne Wessal
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$176,148,059
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Arianne Wessal
Senegal’s history of investing in education and engaging education stakeholders in sector dialogue mark the government’s commitment to building a strong education system.
Based on the 2019 PASEC assessment, many Senegalese students acquire basic competencies by the end of primary education, but 25% lack minimum proficiency in reading and 35% in math.
Significant socioeconomic, rural-urban and regional disparities call for a more equitable and inclusive education system. While minimal learning differences are observed among girls and boys at the primary level, gender disparities emerge in secondary education, with more girls dropping out of school than boys.
Senegal is working with GPE and other partners to improve the quality of learning by reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities. The government aims to strengthen the capacities of decentralized administrations to detect vulnerabilities and identify and implement measures to reduce them.
Schools will define and implement remedial strategies to improve learning, which could include the provision of teachers, new teaching and learning materials, upgrading infrastructure or opening a canteen.
Plans to improve sector governance include primary education learning assessments to bolster evidence for decision making, and resource allocation criteria that account for disparities, among others.
(data as of May 09, 2024)
Type: Program development
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$199,053
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: AFD
Type: System capacity
Years: 2022 - 2024
Allocation: US$696,860
Utilization: US$489,019
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: Program implementation and Multiplier
Years: 2019 - 2024
Allocation: US$42,551,592
Utilization: US$37,200,000
Grant agent: AFD
Sustainably improve the performance of the education system in terms of quality, equity and efficiency by consolidating the control and regulation capabilities of the system through working in partnership.
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting: