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COVID-19
Allocation: US$7 million
Years: 2020-2022
Grant agent: UNICEF
Key document: Application and program document
The US$7 million grant supports:
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Burundi received a GPE grant of US$70,000 to support the Ministry of Education in planning its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Following the socio-political events of 2015, the government of Burundi developed a medium-term transitional education plan for 2018-2020, instead of continuing with the implementation of the 2012-2020 Education and Training Development Sector Plan. This enables the government to focus its efforts on basic education, protect the gains until the country overcomes the current unrest and prepare a comprehensive sector plan at the end of the transitional period.
After a participatory process, the government and the development partners endorsed the transitional plan in May 2018.
The plan focuses on basic education in order to support the basic education reform launched at the start of the 2013/2014 academic year and meet the major challenges identified by the 2014 Education Country Status Report (CSR) and the analysis of risks and vulnerabilities conducted in 2017. Considerable challenges persist in terms of equity, efficiency and learning outcomes.
The education sector is a priority for the government of Burundi in view of the share of its budget earmarked for education. The share of the education sector in recurrent expenditure excluding public debt has always been high. It rose from 31.1% in 2012 to 34.1% in 2016 and is planned to increase to 36% by 2020.
The local education group is the lead platform for dialogue and cooperation between the government and its partners. The Ministry of Education co-chairs the regular LEG meetings alongside the lead partner’s representative, which demonstrates the national authorities’ commitment to coordinating the sector with the partners.
Burundi’s “Twige Neza” program is designed to help the national authorities uphold the education system’s achievements and contribute to reducing vulnerabilities. It aims to help the country, in close collaboration with its development partners, to continue to make progress to safeguard the right to education.
The program is also supported by AFD (Agence française de développement) for a total cost of US$51.9 million.
GPE grant of US$46.9 million is composed of US$25.6 million approved in March 2019 and an additional funding of US$21.3 million approved in April 2021.
The program has five components.
The project is implemented by the Ministry of Education, in accordance with each department’s strategic functions of steering, leading and implementing operations, quality control and supervision. They are assisted in these functions by a project management assistance system.
The project funds are disbursed through two mechanisms: (i) direct payment by AFD (the grant agent), and (ii) renewable advances paid into a project account.
The results-based portion of the grant is used for strategies to reduce repetition at different levels of basic education (efficiency dimension), to reduce geographical disparities in access to basic education and improve learning conditions (equity dimension), and to improve pupils’ performances in French (learning outcomes dimension).
All funds, which will be disbursed once the different program targets have been met, are earmarked to finance:
Burundi also benefited from an accelerated funding of US$9.38 million from GPE, with UNICEF as grant agent, to support its program titled: Continuity of learning in emergency situations support program (Programme d’appui à la continuité des apprentissages dans les situations d’urgence).
The two-year program aims to:
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
Accelerated funding | 2021-2023 | 9,380,000 | 7,236,842 | UNICEF | Progress report |
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COVID-19 | 2020-2022 | 7,000,000 | 4,350,770 | UNICEF | |
Program implementation | 2019-2026 | 46,900,000 | 4,908,997 | AFD | |
2016-2019 | 20,100,000 | 20,100,000 | UNICEF | Progress report | |
2013-2016 | 30,200,434 | 30,200,434 | BTC | ||
Sector plan development | 2017-2018 | 416,927 | 416,927 | UNICEF | |
System capacity | 2022-2024 | 677,927 | 0 | UNICEF | |
Program development | 2019-2021 | 200,000 | 200,000 | AFD | |
2017-2018 | 201,171 | 201,171 | AFD | Completion report | |
Total | 115,076,459 | 67,615,141 |
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the coalition Éducation Pour Tous Bafashebige (EPT BAFASHEBIGE) for the 2019-2021 period.
This builds on 11 years of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF) support to national education coalitions for their engagement in education sector policy dialogue.
GPE had provided the coalition Éducation Pour Tous Bafashebige (EPT BAFASHEBIGE) with a grant from the CSEF to support its engagement in education sector policy dialogue and citizens’ voice in education quality, equity, and financing and sector reform.