Partner since:
Total grant support: US$150,415,580
GPE 2025 grant eligibility:
Partnership compact
Priority: Improving teacher delivery and quality for a high-performing, equitable and resilient education system.
Coordinating agency: CARE INTERNATIONAL-FONGIM, UNICEF
Engagement lead: Adria Rakotoarivony
In Mali, only 10% of 10-year-olds can read and understand a simple text. While enrollment in school has increased, almost half of children ages 6-14 remain out of school.
Protracted conflict has severely impacted education delivery, and those facing the greatest barriers to education include children in rural areas, from poor families and girls.
The government is working with GPE and other partners to address challenges with a focus on improving teacher delivery and quality for a high-performing, equitable and resilient education system.
Mali’s Partnership Compact describes plans to:
Transversal to planned interventions is a commitment to gender-responsive policy planning and implementation, aiming at eliminating barriers faced by girls to access and stay in school.
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 transformation
Years: 2026 - 2029
Allocation: US$37,980,000
Utilization: US$343,959
Grant agent: UNESCO, UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2026 - 2029
Allocation: US$1,690,000
Utilization: US$16,036
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2021 - 2027
Allocation: US$45,700,000
Utilization: US$20,308,897
Grant agent: World Bank
Improve conditions for better learning outcomes, promote girls' access to lower and upper secondary education in underserved regions, and enhance the governance of the education system.
