Partner since:
Total grant support: US$305,377,310
Grant eligibility:
Partnership Compact
Priority: Ensure inclusive quality teaching and learning for all girls and boys.
Coordinating agency: FCDO
GPE Team lead: Morten Sigsgaard
Rwanda’s commitment to providing quality education for all children includes the introduction of free basic education and a competence-based curriculum. The uptake of primary education is high with net enrollment near 99%. However, upon completing primary education, many children are not equipped with foundational skills.
The education system has high rates of repetition, dropout and over-age children. To unlock large-scale change, Rwanda is working with GPE and other partners to improve inclusive quality teaching and learning.
The government and partners agree on the need to boost foundational literacy and numeracy and will harmonize interventions to improve the quality of instruction at pre-primary and lower primary levels. Teachers will be trained in learner-centered and inclusive pedagogies and equipped with new teaching and learning materials that are better aligned with the curriculum.
Additionally, Rwanda aims to ensure timely enrolment in and progression throughout education. This requires mobilizing parents and communities to support education, constructing more pre-primary classrooms to increase enrollment, establishing early identification of children with disabilities, and implementing remedial learning programs.
Measures to enhance education sector management, such as improving the collection and use of gender and disability data, will help Rwanda to better serve all students, including the most vulnerable.
out-of-school rate for children of lower-secondary school age
of children start learning one year before entering primary school
of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications
of government expenditure on education
(data as of July 13, 2025)
Type: System transformation
Years: 2024 - 2028
Allocation: US$31,290,000
Utilization: US$6,758,901
Grant agent: UNICEF
Ensure inclusive and high-quality teaching and learning opportunities for both girls and boys through:
Type: System capacity
Years: 2024 - 2025
Allocation: US$1,222,285
Utilization: US$596,546
Grant agent: UNICEF
Type: Multiplier
Years: 2022 - 2027
Allocation: US$30,000,000
Utilization: US$10,837,488
Grant agent: World Bank
Improve teacher competency and student retention and learning in basic education.
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 2024-2026 period. This builds on previous support from the Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF).
