El Salvador is the first country to access the GPE Girls’ Education Accelerator

In June 2022, El Salvador became the first GPE partner country to access the Girls’ Education Accelerator (GEA). The country will use the $15 million grant to tackle gender norms from an early age and support gender-equitable learning assessment from early childhood to secondary school.

In June 2022, El Salvador became the first country to access the Girls’ Education Accelerator (GEA). The $15 million grant combines $5 million from the Girls’ Education Accelerator and a $10 million Multiplier grant.

The grant furthers the girls’ education component of the Crecer Juntos (Growing Together) early childhood education policy, endorsed by the local education group through their Partnership Compact and selected as a policy priority to transform the education system.

The priority is supported by the homonymous World Bank program “Growing Up and Learning Together: Comprehensive Early Childhood Development”, the Inter-American Development Bank program Nacer, Crecer, Aprender (Be Born, Grow Up and Learn) and other interventions by partners.

As part of the joint sector review in November 2022, members of the local education group and the Ministry of Education discussed progress in the implementation of the 2022-2030 Sector Plan and the Compact. The discussion included potential monitoring indicators, as well as alternatives to strengthen planning and monitoring with an equity approach.

Understanding how the GEA will be used in El Salvador and how it made a difference in the country policy dialogue is particularly important as we learn from the early implementation of the GPE 2025 operating model.

Read the full article on the Global Partnership for Education website.