Allocation: US$15 million
Years: 2020-2021
Grant agent: World Bank
Key documents:
The US$15 million grant will support:
The initiatives above are based on the Ministry of Education COVID-19 response plan.
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Ethiopia received a GPE grant of US$140,000 to support the Ministry of Education in planning its response to the pandemic. The funds were used to support 3 regions to deliver radio content for approximately 200,000 children.
Although Ethiopia has achieved remarkable progress in expanding access to education over the past twenty years, the challenges related to equity, efficiency and learning outcomes remain significant.
The country’s Education Sector Development Plan 2020-2025 has been designed to address these challenges, with the vision to transform society through harnessing the full potential of learners to become productive citizens. The education plan aims to enhance education and training by:
Ethiopia has been awarded two grants: A US$125 million Education sector program implementation grant, running from 2021 to 2024, and a US$20 million accelerated grant for 2020-2021.
The implementation grant co-finances the country’s General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity (GEQIP-E) as an additional financing over three-and-a-half years; and builds on the lessons learned from the initial implementation period (2017-2019). Its overall objective is to improve internal efficiency, equitable access, and quality in general education.
The grant will be split between the program-for-results modality of GEQIP-E and an investment project financing component to support targeted capacity building and pilot activities.
The grant is divided into 70% as fixed part ($87.5 million) and 30% as variable part ($37.5 million).
The grant is mostly results-based financing with disbursements tied to a series of results, and both fixed part and variable part indicators support four main result areas:
The investment project financing component finances, through a project modality, the piloting of new activities and technical assistance to the government to ensure strong program management, with activities such as:
The US$20 million accelerated grant supports the Comprehensive Home-grown, Inclusive, Learning and Development School Feeding Project (CHILD SFP).
The objective is to ensure that all boys and girls have equitable access to quality, safe and inclusive pre-primary and primary education, including students with disabilities, internally displaced population and host communities in 13 targeted Woredas of 5 regions (Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Somali and SNNP regions).
The School feeding program is the core intervention but, the grant will also finance activities related to water and sanitation, capacity building training for teachers, Parents, Teachers and Students Associations (PTSA) members and education officials.
The program is aligned with the country’s Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) 2020 and has three components:
The program directly targets 499 schools in 13 Woredas benefiting 163,021 school children (86,521 girls); 1,351 children with disabilities (537 girls); 3,935 teachers (1,498 females); 2,609 PTSAs members (1,111 females); and 183 regional, zonal and district education experts and officials (35 females), who will serve as school teeding committee members, managing and monitoring the overall implementation, as well as 998 cooks. The program indirectly benefits about 100,000 community members (51% females).
Multiplier grant
The US$20 million Multiplier grant supports the General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity (GEQIP-E) as additional financing for refugee integration. The 4-year program has co-financing from IDA (US$55 million) and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (US5 million). The program aims to scale up GEQIP-E to refugee schools in the regions serving refugee populations.
The program uses the existing institutional framework and implementation arrangements of GEQIP-E, with some modifications to add the Agency for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) as an implementing agency.
The program supports the government’s policy of increasing access to quality education for refugees and integration of refugee education. It has 4 components:
1: Harmonization of services at refugee primary schools
2: Integration of refugee secondary education
3: Innovations to address key challenges in refugee education
4: Investment Project Financing (IPF)
All amounts are in US dollars.
| Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
| Multiplier | 2021-2025 | 20,000,000 | 0 | WB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerated funding | 2022-2023 | 10,000,000 | 0 | Save the Children UK | |
| 2020-2022 | 20,000,000 | 9,987,212 | Save the Children UK | ||
| COVID-19 | 2020-2022 | 15,000,000 | 0 | WB | Progress report |
| Program implementation | 2021-2024 | 125,000,000 | 28,042,230 | WB | |
| 2017-2019 | 100,000,000 | 89,991,617 | WB | Completion report (variable part) | |
| 2014-2018 | 100,000,000 | 100,000,000 | WB | Completion report | |
| 2008-2013 | 69,535,734 | 69,535,734 | WB | ||
| 2010-2013 | 97,828,573 | 97,828,573 | WB | ||
| Sector plan development | 2019-2021 | 500,000 | 465,000 | UNESCO | |
| 2016 | 187,170 | 187,170 | UNICEF | ||
| Program development | 2019-2021 | 199,923 | 199,971 | WB | |
| 2016-2017 | 199,000 | 196,999 | WB | ||
| Total | 558,450,400 | 396,434,506 |
As part of its investment in civil society advocacy and social accountability efforts, GPE’s Education Out Loud fund is supporting the Basic Education Network Ethiopia (BEN-E) for the 2019-2021 period.
This builds on 11 years of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF) support to national education coalitions for their engagement in education sector policy dialogue.
GPE had provided the Basic Education Network Ethiopia (BEN-E) with a grant from the CSEF to support its engagement in education sector policy dialogue and citizens’ voice in education quality, equity, and financing and sector reform.