
COVID-19 response
Allocation: US$20 million
Years: 2020-2021
Grant agent: World Bank
Key documents:
The US$20 million COVID-19 grant will:
- Strengthen the federal and provincial governments’ institutional capacity to respond to, and recover from, the COVID-19 crisis, and build resilience to face future crises, with a focus on disadvantaged areas and vulnerable populations
- Offer school children a wide range of distance learning channels - TV, TeleSchool, radio, print media, social media, and mobile applications - and distribute learning materials to students living in remote areas
- Support the design and implementation of an inclusive distance learning certification pathway to target the 19.1 million out-of-school children and those who would leave schools due to the negative shocks to household income caused by COVID-19
- Focus on vulnerable populations, concentrated mostly in remote areas of the country, and especially girls who are especially prone to dropping out of school as a result of socioeconomic shocks and have lower access to technology equipment such as mobile/tablet/TV/radio
- Train teachers in remedial education, distance learning strategies and learning assessments to effectively support children’s education
- Provide schools with basic sanitization and hygiene supplies to ensure they meet standards
- Supply students with learning materials to encourage them to return to school.
These initiatives are based on the Ministry of Education’s COVID-19 response plan.
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Pakistan received a GPE grant of US$140,000 to support the Ministry of Education with developing a national response and recovery plan.
Education in Pakistan
The delivery of education services in Pakistan is severely impacted by economic, political and security challenges that the country has been facing for some years.
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, approved in 2010, devolved responsibility for education delivery and spending to provincial governments. The federal ministry retains some limited mandates, mainly in curriculum development, accreditation and the financing of research and development.
See a comprehensive interactive map of education rankings across Pakistan.
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Grants
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Disbursements | Grant agent | ||
Pakistan | ||||||
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COVID-19 | 2020-2021 | 20,000,000 | 0 | WB | ||
Balochistan | ||||||
Program implementation | 2015-2019 | 34,000,000 | 34,000,000 | WB | Progress report | |
Sector plan development | 2018-2020 | 460,350 | 0 | UNICEF | ||
Program development | 2020-2021 | 143,860 | 0 | UNICEF | ||
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||||
Sector plan development | 2019-2020 | 500,000 | 0 | FCDO | ||
Program development | 2020-2021 | 165,885 | 0 | FCDO | ||
Punjab | ||||||
Program implementation | 2020 | 50,625,000 | 0 | FCDO | ||
Sector plan development | 2017-2019 | 499,900 | 499,900 | FCDO | ||
Program development | 2019-2020 | 200,000 | 0 | FCDO | ||
Sindh | ||||||
Program implementation | 2020 | 31,112,500 | 0 | WB | ||
2015-2017 | 65,730,921 | 65,730,921 | WB | Completion report | ||
Sector plan development | 2017-2019 | 498,465 | 499,400 | WB | ||
2012-2014 | 241,187 | 241,187 | UNICEF | |||
Program development | 2019-2020 | 200,000 | 164,619 | WB | ||
2013-2014 | 188,092 | 188,092 | WB | |||
Total | 204,566,160 | 101,324,119 |
Data last updated: March 01, 2021
GPE has also provided the Pakistan Coalition for Education - An initiative of Society for Access to Quality Education (PCE) with a grant from the Civil Society Education Fund, to support its engagement in education sector policy dialogue and citizens’ voice in education quality, equity, and financing and sector reform.
Education sector progress
The graphs below show overall progress in the education sector in Pakistan, and GPE data for Balochistan and Sindh show the country progress on 16 indicators monitored in the GPE Results Framework.
Source: World Bank - Education Data
Data on education are compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics from official responses to surveys and from reports provided by education authorities in each country.
Last updated January 05, 2021