Partner since:
Total grant support: US$122,491,855
GPE 2025 grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Improving gender equality, equitable access to education, and ensure quality teaching and learning.
Coordinating agency: Commonwealth and Development Office
Engagement lead: Daisuke Kanazawa
In Zimbabwe, about two-thirds of school age children go to school. Access to, as well as the quality of, their education is often related to where they live. Children in rural and remote areas struggle to access education, as do children with disabilities and children from families who cannot afford school fees.
Other challenges include under-resourced schools, lack of infrastructure and the effects of disasters on infrastructure. Poor learning outcomes also influence a family's decision on whether to send their child to school.
GPE is supporting the government and partners to achieve transformational change through Zimbabwe’s priority reform area: equitable access to relevant quality education for all children.
Increasing the number of schools with safe and appropriate infrastructure, establishing a system to identify children at risk of dropping out, improving foundational literacy and numeracy for learners, and enhancing teachers’ capacity to deliver quality education will help get more children into school, prevent dropout and improve learning outcomes.
Key to achieving change at scale is Zimbabwe's equitable financing commitment, targeting funding to the poorest and most marginalized schools.
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 12, 2026)
Type: Multiplier, System transformation and Girls' Education Accelerator
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$43,422,000
Utilization: US$35,617,839
Grant agent: CAMFED, UNICEF
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$2,955,955
Utilization: US$2,012,574
Grant agent: UNICEF
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
