Partner since:
Total grant support: US$12,052,476
Grant eligibility:
Education sector plan
Objective: Increasing access to quality education, ensuring students finish school and expanding access to children and youth who are out of school, providing education that is pertinent, relevant and efficient.
Coordinating agency: Ayuda en Acción
GPE Team lead: Katherina Hruskovec Gonzalez
The education system in Honduras has four levels: pre-primary (pre-básica), primary and lower secondary (básica), upper secondary (media), and post-secondary (media superior).
Compulsory education includes 13 years, covering the last year of preschool, nine years of primary and lower secondary and three years of upper secondary.
While Honduras has made significant progress in expanding access to primary education, enrollment in other levels of schooling is still lagging. The main challenges are low access to preschool and secondary education as well as weak learning outcomes across the education system, low number of trained teachers and insufficient learning materials.
Honduras' Education sector plan (Plan Estrategico del Sector Educacion), covering the 2018-2030 period, provides a vision of the transformations that the national education system requires by 2030.
The country has improved sector planning and monitoring, but coordination among government institutions in charge of education need to be strengthened.
Civil society groups (e.g.: parents’ and students’ groups and local communities) attempt to engage in sector dialogue but the lack of capacity and clear lines for dialogue with the government impede meaningful contributions to education policy.
There is a well-established development partners group (Mesa Redonda de Cooperantes Externos en Educación), however many donors work independently with the government.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
of government expenditure on education
(data as of April 19, 2025)
Type: System capacity
Years: 2025 - 2028
Allocation: US$803,000
Utilization: US$7,162
Grant agent: World Bank
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2020 - 2025
Allocation: US$10,000,000
Utilization: US$5,748,112
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 Foro Dakar Honduras for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
