Partner since:
Total grant support: US$286,931,803
GPE 2025 grant eligibility:
Partnership compact
Priority: Improve quality foundational teaching and learning for all girls and boys.
Coordinating agency: UNICEF, UNICEF MALAWI
Engagement lead: Daisuke Kanazawa
In Malawi, less than 20% of children ages 7 to 14 have basic literacy skills and even less have basic numeracy skills.
The lack of foundational learning contributes to students being more likely to repeat a grade or drop out of school. The government is working with GPE and other partners to ensure quality foundational teaching and learning for all girls and boys.
Malawi’s Partnership Compact describes plans for affecting transformative change. A focus on improving school readiness commits to improving access to inclusive and quality early childhood education through piloting an initial rollout of pre-primary preparatory classes.
To deliver inclusive foundational learning, Malawi will also focus on early primary grades by training teachers on formative classroom assessment and inclusive pedagogy, revise the curriculum, develop a standardized remediation program, reduce class size through infrastructure, and develop systems for safety and protection of girls and vulnerable children.
Education system capacity strengthening focuses on better teacher management, government coordination and financial management, and data collection and use.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of government expenditure on education
(data as of November 11, 2026)
Type: System transformation and Multiplier
Years: 2025 - 2029
Allocation: US$67,900,010
Utilization: US$15,493,557
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: System capacity
Years: 2025 - 2029
Allocation: US$1,480,000
Utilization: US$150,000
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$250,000
Utilization: US$177,800
Grant agent: UNICEF
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
