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COVID-19
Allocation: US$3.5 million
Years: 2020-2022
Grant agent: UNICEF
Key document: Application and program document
The US$3.5 million grant supports:
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Guyana received a GPE grant of US$70,000 to support the Ministry of Education in planning its response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
In the last decade, Guyana has made important progress in improving access to education at all levels, by increasing the number of trained teachers, providing more access to interactive technology, in particular computers, and upgrading physical facilities.
Despite this progress, Guyana’s education system is still recovering from years of underinvestment and faces many challenges, including quality and equity of early childhood education services, teaching quality, and accessing reliable education data.
From 2006 to 2012, public sector allocations to education averaged 3.8% of GDP.
Guyana’s education sector plan (ESP) 2014-2018 outlines two priorities:
The plan’s outcome indicators include:
The ESP adopts various strategies to address quality and equity issues, such as strengthening literacy and numeracy programs, increasing the number of trained teachers, improving the school environment, targeting of interventions to disadvantaged groups and strengthening sector governance and management.
The Guyana Education Sector Program supported by a U$7 million grant is a three-year program composed of a an implementation grant of US$2.5 million and Multiplier grant of US$4.5 million.
The program supports Guyana’s Education Sector Plan 2021-2025, which seeks to improve governance and accountability, performance at all levels, as well as the efficiency of the education system, while reducing inequities.
The three main components of the program are:
The program is partially aligned with national financial and planning systems: it will be audited by the Auditor General of Guyana and information on its implementation will be included in sector reports prepared by the ministry of education.
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
COVID-19 | 2020-2022 | 3,500,000 | 2,553,377 | UNICEF | |
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Program implementation and Multiplier | 2021-2024 | 7,000,000 | 1,265,126 | WB | Progress report |
Program implementation | 2015-2018 | 1,698,273 | 1,698,273 | WB | Completion report |
2004-2012 | 32,919,857 | 32,919,857 | WB | Completion report | |
Sector plan development | 2013-2015 | 250,000 | 227,695 | WB | |
System capacity | 2022-2023 | 156,500 | 0 | UNESCO | |
Program development | 2020-2022 | 200,000 | 190,974 | WB | |
2013-2015 | 200,000 | 193,467 | WB | ||
Total | 45,924,630 | 39,048,769 |