Partner since:
Total grant support: US$218,464,167
GPE 2025 grant eligibility:
Coordinating agency: AVSI Côte d’Ivoire, UNICEF
Engagement lead: Blandine Ledoux
Côte d'Ivoire has been implementing ambitious reforms in line with its Education and Training Sector Plan 2016-2025.
Efforts toward an inclusive and quality education system have led to improvements, including near universal primary education, but systemic challenges hinder learning. Less than half of Ivorian students attain the minimum competencies in reading or mathematics by the end of primary school.
As outlined in Côte d'Ivoire's Partnership Compact, the government is working with GPE and other partners to improve foundational learning, ensuring that all students are equipped with the skills needed to learn and thrive in education and beyond.
Building on lessons learned, the government will scale up successful initiatives that have been piloted in recent years, such as projects to improve the teaching and learning of reading, writing and math at the primary level, as well as pre-primary provision for children aged 5 in all primary schools.
New teaching and learning materials, improved teacher training, and gender-sensitive and inclusive pedagogy and curriculum are critical aspects of Côte d'Ivoire’s plans to achieve large-scale and sustainable change benefitting all children.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications
of government expenditure on education
(data as of November 11, 2026)
Type: System capacity
Years: 2026 - 2028
Allocation: US$449,841
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: System capacity
Years: 2026 - 2028
Allocation: US$449,841
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2025 - 2027
Allocation: US$250,319
Utilization: US$70,572
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: System transformation
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$35,928,000
Utilization: US$18,981,708
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: Multiplier and Girls' Education Accelerator
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$62,455,000
Utilization: US$9,785,394
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$15,000,000
Utilization: US$9,970,699
Grant agent: World Bank
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
