Partner since:
Total grant support: US$187,834,368
Grant eligibility:
Partnership compact
Priority: Improving the quality of learning through the professionalization of the teaching profession.
Coordinating agency: Plan International, UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Ludovic Signarbieux, Mafaizath Fatoke
Cameroon has high enrollment in primary education, but 25% of students do not complete primary school and the transition rate from primary to secondary has been declining.
Low learning levels, unfavorable teaching and learning conditions, and chronic teacher shortages call for transformative change. Cameroon is working with GPE and other partners to improve the quality of learning by professionalizing the teaching workforce.
Cameroon’s Partnership Compact describes the country’s plans to achieve results at scale. The reform includes developing and strengthening teacher’s capacities through improved training and pedagogical supervision.
Improvements to the teaching and learning environment involve school construction, ensuring the health, safety and protection of students and teachers, and the provision of new teaching and learning materials.
Cameroon also aims to strengthen the coordination, planning and monitoring of the education sector with an aim to improve the management of teachers and financial resources.
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 April 29, 2025)
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2025 - 2029
Allocation: US$14,872,950
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: IsDB
Type: System capacity
Years: 2024 - 2026
Allocation: US$401,221
Utilization: US$94,258
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$104,861
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: Program development
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$100,442
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2023 - 2025
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: IsDB
Type: System capacity
Years: 2022 - 2025
Allocation: US$400,000
Utilization: US$387,120
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 the Cameroon Education For All Network (CEFAN) for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
