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COVID-19
Allocation: US$7 million
Years: 2020-2022
Grant agent: UNICEF
Key documents:
In Lao, the grant will support the following interventions:
GPE funding also supported the development of “My House” – an early childhood development TV series – which received a UNICEF global award for being among the 10 outstanding UNICEF programs in the world.
The initiatives above are based on the Ministry of Education COVID-19 response plan.
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Lao PDR received a GPE grant of US$70,000 to support the Ministry of Education. The grant was used to:
The government of Lao PDR recognizes education’s importance in achieving national development goals. The country relies heavily on external funding; however, it has shown improvements in recent years. According to government figures, in 2013/14, the education share of the government budget was 15.5%, up from 13.4% in 2009/10.
The country has made significant progress, achieving 98.6% primary net enrollment and a gender parity rate of .99 for primary education. The major challenges that the education system faces are: reducing the high grade 1 dropout rate, enhancing equity, and improving learning outcomes.
The ESDP 2016-2020 has set the following areas of focus:
The grant supports the “Lao PDR Global Partnership for Education III: Learning and Equity Acceleration Project (LEAP)” program. This program is a continuation of the previous one and has the following three components:
These activities build on the Ministry of education-UNICEF-World Bank framework on effective school governance:
Components 1 and 3 build upon interventions from the World Bank-supported ECE Project and GPE II Project, whereas Component 2 either supports interventions that are new or scales interventions based on lessons learned. Component 2 and 3 use expenditure-based financing as well as a results-based financing approach with performance-based conditions.
The program will not use GPE funds to support for-profit provision or not-for-profit non-state provision of core education services. The program will pilot mechanisms to sustain community child development groups’ caregiver salaries through community contributions, which will be funded entirely by IDA.
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
COVID-19 | 2020-2022 | 7,000,000 | 4,075,425 | UNICEF | |
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Program implementation and Multiplier | 2021-2026 | 17,500,000 | 723,971 | WB | |
Program implementation | 2015-2021 | 16,800,000 | 16,574,228 | WB | Progress report |
2010-2014 | 28,268,034 | 28,268,034 | WB | Progress report | |
Sector plan development | 2014-2015 | 239,520 | 239,520 | UNICEF | |
2012-2013 | 246,631 | 246,631 | WB | ||
Program development | 2020-2021 | 200,000 | 123,414 | WB | |
2013-2014 | 199,977 | 199,977 | WB | ||
Total | 70,454,162 | 50,451,200 |