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COVID-19
Allocation: US$15 million
Years: 2020-2022
Grant agent: UNICEF
Key documents:
The US$15 million COVID-19 grant supports:
These initiatives are based on the Ministry of Education’s COVID-19 response plan.
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Nigeria received a GPE grant of US$140,000 to support the Ministry of Education with preparing a COVID-19 education strategic framework on continuity of learning. An “opening better” school initiative was developed and implemented to mitigate the impact the pandemic on the education and well-being of children.
The funding supports:
The fund helps provide psychosocial support to children and teachers, provision wash and hygiene supplies to schools, and prepare a comprehensive back-to-school campaign and social mobilization to initiate safe school reopening.
Efforts are underway to establish a remote monitoring system to measure the progress in learning and effectiveness of the education delivery system.
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa in terms of population and has approximately 20% of the total out–of-school children population in the world. Adding to this challenge is the demographic pressure with about 11,000 newborns every day that overburdens the system capacity to deliver quality education.
In the Northern part of Nigeria, almost two-thirds of students are functionally illiterate.
The states of Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, and Sokoto have shown commitment to improving their education systems, but they face severe challenges including high poverty levels, low enrollment, gender disparities, poor quality and relevance, poor infrastructure and learning conditions.
An additional challenge is the direct threat to schooling, especially for girls, emanating from political insecurity through insurgent activities, and attacks on schools.
Each state created an education sector plan to outline its priorities and objectives.
Jigawa
The Education Sector Strategic Plan highlights four policy objectives:
The education sector plan also establishes 17 clear initiatives to support these policy objectives, including establishing free education for girls at all levels and free education for all people with special needs.
Kaduna
The Education Strategic Plan 2006-2015 focuses on:
Kano
The Education Strategic Plan details numerous targets revolving around 5 main areas:
Katsina
The Education Sector Strategic Plan emphasizes strategic policy objectives and interventions that address 5 major challenges in its education system :
The strategic interventions include increasing community participation, increasing advocacy and sensitization, improving teachers’ welfare packages, and providing teachers with re-training.
Sokoto
The Strategic Education Sector Plan prioritizes 4 policy goals :
The sector plan also specifies four key areas of intervention including constructing schools, purchasing essential learning materials, providing equipment and machineries, and capacity building.
Overcrowded classrooms and broken infrastructure at Janbulo Islamiyya Primary School, Roni, Jigawa State, Nigeria
The program funded by the US$125 million grant is called Transforming education at state level. The program targets the three states of Oyo, Adamawa and Katsina and is an additional financing to BESDA (the parent program), which is being implemented since 2018.
The fixed part of the grant focuses on providing technical capacity to the 3 states including:
This part of the grant focuses on the following components:
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | ||
Kaduna | ||||||
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Multiplier | 2022 | 13,350,000 | 0 | IsDB | ||
Program development | 2021-2022 | 200,000 | 200,000 | IsDB | ||
Nigeria | ||||||
Accelerated funding | 2020-2023 | 20,000,000 | 4,492,955 | UNICEF | ||
COVID-19 | 2020-2022 | 15,000,000 | 4,493,640 | UNICEF | ||
Program implementation | 2022-2026 | 125,000,000 | 3,000,000 | WB | ||
2015-2020 | 100,000,000 | 99,968,667 | WB | Progress report | ||
Sector plan development | 2019-2020 | 418,000 | 418,000 | WB | ||
2019-2020 | 401,667 | 401,667 | WB | |||
2013 | 232,961 | 232,961 | WB | |||
Program development | 2020-2021 | 400,000 | 395,153 | WB | ||
2013-2014 | 476,992 | 476,992 | WB | |||
2014 | 78,492 | 78,492 | WB | |||
Total | 275,558,112 | 114,158,527 |
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA) for the 2019-2021 period.
This builds on 11 years of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF) support to national education coalitions for their engagement in education sector policy dialogue.
GPE had provided the Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA) with a grant from the CSEF to support its engagement in education sector policy dialogue and citizens’ voice in education quality, equity, and financing and sector reform.