Partner since:
Total grant support: US$272,865,025
Grant eligibility:
Education sector plan
Objective: Develop skills to strengthen the quality and relevance of education, and better prepare students to meet diverse labor market demands.
Coordinating agency: FCDO
GPE Team lead: Subrata S. Dhar
Rwanda has made great strides in education over the past couple of decades. The government has shown considerable commitment to the sector through various initiatives, including through providing free and compulsory education for nine years of basic education. Free education is now being expanded to 12 years of education.
The government has also undertaken the major reform of changing the curriculum, switching from knowledge to competence-based, and thus make it responsive to the needs of learners, society and the labor market.
Despite these successes, Rwanda is still facing challenges in ensuring better learning outcomes, building teacher capacities, improving gender equality, and reducing dropouts and repetition rates.
The Education sector strategic plan covers the period 2018-2024. It has been developed through collective efforts of the ministry of education and relevant stakeholders in the education sector, keeping in mind these challenges. Its conception is based on a wide consensus and the plan is linked to Rwanda’s long-term strategy for development called the National Strategy for Transformation and Prosperity, in which education is one of the central pillars.
The overarching objective of the strategy is to develop skills to strengthen the quality and relevance of education, and to better prepare students to meet the demands of the labor market.
The new curriculum requires major changes in the teaching methodology and the use of a wider range of assessment techniques. In response, the sector plan proposes 9 strategic priorities:
(data as of September 22, 2023)
Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$1,177,715
Utilization: US$34,441
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2023 -
Allocation: US$195,500
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2022 - 2026
Allocation: US$30,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2020 - 2024
Allocation: US$30,800,000
Utilization: US$10,778,008
Grant agent: UNICEF
Enhance quality and efficiency with inclusivity in basic education for a knowledge-based economy.
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$10,000,000
Utilization: US$9,994,079
Grant agent: WB
Address immediate education challenges posed by the pandemic, and contribute to building a more resilient education system for future crises.
Type: Program development
Years: 2019 - 2020
Allocation: US$111,928
Utilization: US$111,928
Grant agent: FCDO
Type: Program development
Years: 2018
Allocation: US$78,223
Utilization: US$78,223
Grant agent: FCDO
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2017 - 2018
Allocation: US$301,659
Utilization: US$301,659
Grant agent: FCDO
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2015 - 2018
Allocation: US$25,200,000
Utilization: US$25,200,000
Grant agent: FCDO
Improve primary school enrollment in the 22 poorest performing districts, and publish the 2016 Rwanda Education Statistical Yearbook.
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2011 - 2014
Allocation: US$70,000,000
Utilization: US$70,000,000
Grant agent: FCDO
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2009 - 2010
Allocation: US$35,000,000
Utilization: US$35,000,000
Grant agent: WB
Support teacher development and management, textbooks and girl's education with the overall aim to improve the quality of basic education.
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2007 - 2010
Allocation: US$70,000,000
Utilization: US$70,000,000
Grant agent: WB
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting Rwanda Education For All Coalition (REFAC) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
