Partner since:
Total grant support: US$178,639,370
Grant eligibility:
Education sector plan
Objectives: Increase access to quality preschool; Enhance quality and retention in basic and secondary education; Increase opportunity for basic literacy programs; Improve learning in secondary education; and strengthen the education system.
Coordinating agency: UNICEF
GPE Team lead: Esohe Joan Eigbike
Education development in Sudan is anchored in the constitution, with clear provisions to facilitate investment in human capital at all levels of education and training.
The federal government, through its Federal Ministry of Education, is responsible for oversight in the sector and for the development and maintenance of standards including curriculum development and mobilization of resources from internal and external sources.
At the state level, educational boards, under the state ministries of education, organize and coordinate educational activities.
The country is emerging out of a deep political crisis, which has seriously affected the ability of the people in all states to keep their children in school.
Sudan’s Education Sector Strategic Plan (ESSP) 2018-2023 was endorsed in January 2019. Among other things, the plan is explicit about the humanitarian context in Sudan drawing from the Humanitarian Needs Overview of 2017.
The plan took the strategy of integration of the refugees and internally displaced people with the host communities in terms of provision of education.
Even though more children are accessing school today compared to 2009, the system is slowed down by high dropout rates rendering the achievement of universal basic education a big challenge for the country.
Significant numbers of children are still excluded from a conducive learning environment. For instance, only two thirds of learners in government basic education schools are seated and about 24,000 teachers in government basic education schools are volunteers.
(data as of September 28, 2023)
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2023 - 2025
Allocation: US$10,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2023 - 2025
Allocation: US$10,000,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: SCNORWAY
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2022
Allocation: US$5,946,706
Utilization: US$4,519,081
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Program implementation and Multiplier
Years: 2020 - 2025
Allocation: US$52,620,000
Utilization: US$10,052,199
Grant agent: WB
Type: Accelerated funding
Years: 2020 - 2021
Allocation: US$11,800,000
Utilization: US$11,720,485
Grant agent: WB
Type: COVID-19
Years: 2020 - 2021
Allocation: US$11,000,000
Utilization: US$5,053,294
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program development
Years: 2019 - 2020
Allocation: US$100,000
Utilization: US$99,868
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program development
Years: 2018 - 2020
Allocation: US$200,000
Utilization: US$299,605
Grant agent: WB
Type: Sector plan development
Years: 2016 - 2018
Allocation: US$499,900
Utilization: US$498,359
Grant agent: WB
Type: Program implementation
Years: 2013 - 2019
Allocation: US$76,472,764
Utilization: US$76,472,764
Grant agent: WB
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Sudanese Coalition for Education for All (SCEFA) for the 2020-2023 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
