Ethiopia General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity

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Key Information

The development objective of General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity Project for Ethiopia is to improve internal efficiency, equitable access, and quality in general education (O-Class to Grade 12). This restructuring requires change in disbursements arrangements. The program provides annual grants for school improvement programmes, teacher training and licensing, and the development of new policies on curriculum. The program development objective (PDO)  is to improve internal efficiency, equitable access, and quality in general education (O-class to Grade 12). The Program focuses on four result areas: (i) improving internal efficiency (transition rates of Grades 1 to 2 and completion rates of Grade 5); (ii) improving equitable access (girls, emerging regions, and students with special educational needs); (iii) improving quality (student learning outcomes in mother tongues at Grade 2 and English and Mathematics at Grade 8); and (iv) system strengthening for planning, policy formulation and reform. GEQIP-E is the flagship program of the ministry of Education (MoE). The GEQIP series have been instrumental in the past decade to support the national education policy and strategy of Education Sector Development Program (ESDP). The Program was restructured five times. Two additional financing (AF) were added to the program: (i) AF1 of US$122.5 million from GPE, which became effective on April 13, 2021; and (ii) AF2 of US$79.5 million from the International Development Association (IDA), GPE and Denmark, which became effective on October 29, 2021.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Ethiopia

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2017 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ethiopia Ministry of Education

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of schools

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Other

  • Coordinated Action

Policy/legal environment

  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies

Teaching

  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Education sector plans, budgets, policies, and data systems are more gender-equitable
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Teachers and learners have the knowledge and skills to promote gender equality

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown