Partner since:
Total grant support: US$236,829,700
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priorities: Quality teaching, Early childhood education, Gender equality.
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Aya Kibesaki
In recent years, Nepal has improved both access and equity in education and has succeeded in ensuring all genders 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.
(data as of September 28, 2023)
Type: System transformation
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$20,000,000
Utilization: US$20,693
Grant agent: WB
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2027
Allocation: US$3,399,604
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF, WB
Type: Program implementation and Multiplier
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$24,200,000
Utilization: US$23,203,137
Grant agent: WB
Improve the quality, equitable access, and efficiency of basic and secondary education by supporting the government's School Sector Development Program.
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$11,000,000
Utilization: US$8,380,565
Grant agent: WB
Safeguard access and learning, especially of girls and children from the most marginalized groups, and use the crisis response to strengthen system resilience to future crises.
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2019 - 2021
Allocation: US$496,698
Utilization: US$461,101
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2018 - 2019
Allocation: US$129,995
Utilization: US$129,995
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2016 - 2019
Allocation: US$59,300,000
Utilization: US$59,197,825
Grant agent: WB
Increase access to and improve quality of school education, particularly basic education, especially for children from marginalized groups.
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2015 - 2016
Allocation: US$387,608
Utilization: US$387,608
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2014 - 2015
Allocation: US$155,322
Utilization: US$155,322
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2010 - 2014
Allocation: US$117,760,473
Utilization: US$117,760,473
Grant agent: WB
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting:
