Education in Nepal

In recent years, Nepal has improved both access and equity in education and has succeeded in ensuring girls and boys are represented equally in primary and secondary classrooms. Building on these successes, Nepal is focused on improving the quality of learning and teaching and addressing persistent inequalities, often as a result of income, location, ability or gender.

The government and its partners agree that the biggest barriers to transformational change fall within three priority areas against a larger backdrop of making the recent federal transition work: quality teaching, early childhood education and gender equality.

To unlock large-scale change, Nepal, with the support of GPE, will work on local and provincial governments’ capacities to ensure that there are enough trained, competent and motivated teachers; early childhood centers meet quality standards to ensure children’s school readiness and the foundations of their development; and schools are more gender sensitive and socially inclusive.

As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:

• The National Campaign for Education Nepal (NCE-Nepal) for the 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
• Karkhana Samuha for the 2024-2026 period.
• The Tax Education Alliance (TaxEd) led by ActionAid International for the 2024-2026 period.

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• Nepal is part of the KIX EMAP hub and has a KIX national delegation.
• KIX ongoing research projects:
  • Bridging Gaps and Scaling Up a School Readiness Program in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania
  • Promoting gender equality and social inclusion in schools building on what children value and aspire to do and be
  • Connecting Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and Education Management Information System datasets to advance gender equality, equity, and inclusion
  • Data Must Speak to Strengthen Education Capacity and Advance Local Evidence Use (DMS SCALE)
  • Effectiveness and Scalability of Programs for Children Who Are Out of School and at Risk of Dropping Out in Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal
  • Data-Driven School Improvement - Opportunities, Challenges, and Scalable Solutions
  • The Impact of Gender and Inclusive Pedagogies on Students’ Participation and Learning Achievement at Secondary School During the Pandemic and Beyond
  • A Multi-Modal Approach to Teacher Professional Development in Low Resource Settings
  • School leaders as agents of change towards equity and inclusion
  • Data Must Speak about Positive Deviance Approaches to Learning
  • Common-scale assessment of early and foundational math learning across the Global South
  • Using data for improving education equity and inclusion – MICS-EAGLE

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