Education in Afghanistan
Partner since:
Total grant support: US$264,859,902
Grant eligibility:
- Multiplier
- Girls' Education Accelerator
- System capacity
- System transformation
Grants
(data as of December 11, 2025)
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Type: System transformation
Years: 2025 - 2028
Allocation: US$50,050,000
Utilization: 0
Grant agent: AKF, Save the Children UK
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Objectives
- Ensure access to safe, inclusive, equitable learning environments
- Improve the quality of formal and non-formal education
- Advance progress towards the Afghanistan Education Sector Support Plan goals
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$50,000,000
Utilization: US$23,882,066
Grant agent: Save the Children UK
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Objectives
Children, particularly girls, are supported to continue and stay in safe spaces of learning by:
- Improving school infrastructure
- Providing supplies and textbooks
- Strengthening teaching of math and reading, and classroom management
- Training young women to become primary school teachers.
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Type: System capacity
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$4,999,940
Utilization: US$3,229,883
Grant agent: UNESCO
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Type: Program implementation
Years: 2023 - 2026
Allocation: US$59,500,000
Utilization: US$49,740,784
Grant agent: UNICEF
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Objectives
Children, particularly girls, are supported to continue and stay in safe spaces of learning by:
- Improving school infrastructure
- Providing supplies and textbooks
- Strengthening teaching of math and reading, and classroom management
- Training young women to become primary school teachers.
Latest blogs and news
March 18, 2025
GPE is running a blog series on Tech4Ed that explores the critical elements for digital transformation. In this blog, GPE youth leader Ayesha Khan from Canada shares her insights on the impacts of broadening...
February 05, 2025
Key takeaways from GPE KIX research projects on how to scale the impact of promising or proven innovations on teacher professional development implemented between 2020-2024.
December 14, 2023
GPE has approved grants totaling $110 million to support the education of more than 7.66 million children in Afghanistan over the next two years.