Partner since:
Total grant support: US$114,706,424
Grant eligibility:
Education sector plan
Objectives: Provide equitable and safe access to inclusive, quality education; Improve educational management; and Promote quality non-formal and formal post primary TVET.
Coordinating agency: UK Department for International Development, US Agency for International Development
GPE Team lead: Morten Sigsgaard
South Sudan’s education system is characterized as a low investment, low capacity, but high demand system. The state building and peace building efforts of the national plans put high demand on the education system to expand fast, reduce inequity, and provide appropriate teaching. But public expenditure is one of the world’s lowest for education.
The basics of the sector administration and management are rudimentary, which started to develop, along with the rest of the civil service in the country, only after the 2005 Peace Agreement. But capacity building efforts of the government have been interrupted by conflict.
The General Education Sector Plan (GESP) 2017-2022, titled 'Planning for Safety, Resilience and Social Cohesion', is an effort to contain this stress on the system, and to give the sector a direction towards stability based on data, evidence and financing outlays.
The first two years of the GESP are framed as a transitional plan that is expected to rapidly increase enrollment along with building new infrastructure, supplying basic teaching and learning materials, regularizing teacher salary and training teachers to cope with the increased enrollment.
The following three years of the GESP are focused on institutionalizing teacher training, school supervision, and expansion of secondary and technical education.
The education system in the country consists of 8,000 primary schools (grades 1-8), 120 secondary schools (grades 9-12) and one university. There is only one functional teacher training college in the country to meet the demand for training teachers.
(data as of November 28, 2023)
Type: Program development
Years: 2023
Allocation: US$193,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: WB
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2023 - 2024
Allocation: US$10,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: Save the Children US
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2023 -
Allocation: US$12,330,000
Utilization: US$50,937
Grant agent: WB
Type: System capacity
Years: 2022 - 2023
Allocation: US$865,670
Utilization: US$421,566
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2022
Allocation: US$7,000,000
Utilization: US$6,954,978
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2020 - 2021
Allocation: US$100,000
Utilization: US$100,000
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2019 - 2024
Allocation: US$41,700,000
Utilization: US$22,985,826
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program development
Years: 2018
Allocation: US$71,165
Utilization: US$71,165
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2018 - 2019
Allocation: US$6,000,000
Utilization: US$6,000,000
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2015 - 2017
Allocation: US$464,971
Utilization: US$464,971
Grant agent: UNESCO
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2013 - 2018
Allocation: US$35,981,617
Utilization: US$35,981,617
Grant agent: UNICEF
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the South Sudan National Education Coalition for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
