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Learning and School Reforms Continue in Ukraine Despite War Challenges

The LEARN program has been providing new textbooks to 400,000 students nationwide
Guinea: Kadiatou's journey from forced marriage to education

The SWEDD project has significantly reduced dropout rates among girls in Guinea, achieving a retention rate of 99.66% in 2024
Tunisia: Jobs and Skills for the Future

A new project strengthens higher education and private sector partnership to boost graduate employability

Education At-A-Glance

Education is a human right, a powerful driver of development, and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and improving health, gender equality, peace, and stability. It delivers large, consistent returns in terms of income, and is the most important factor to ensure equity and inclusion. For individuals, education promotes employment, earnings, health, and poverty reduction. Globally, there is a?9% increase in hourly earnings for every extra year of schooling.

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Advancing Innovative Methods to Promote Learning (AIM4Learning)

Over 70 million children will benefit from an innovative new program for foundational Learning in Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Foundational Learning

Foundational learning is basic literacy, numeracy, and transferable skills, that are the building blocks for a life of learning....
Education Finance

Assisting countries to make better use of their investments in education is a key priority
Skills Development

Skills development can reduce unemployment, raise incomes, and improve standards of living.
Early Childhood Development

Smart investments in the wellbeing and development of young children are critical to put them on the path to greater prosperity....
Tertiary Education

Tertiary Education is instrumental in fostering growth, reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Girls�� Education

Every day, girls face barriers to education caused by poverty, cultural norms, poor infrastructure, violence and fragility.
Education Technologies (EdTech)

The use of information and communication technologies in education can play a crucial role in providing new and innovative ...
Teachers

Teachers are the single most important school-based factor affecting how much students learn.
Inclusive Education

Meeting the needs of people with disabilities and expanding equitable opportunities is at the core of building inclusive ...
Fragility, Conflict & Violence

Ensuring a safe environment for children to learn is an urgent imperative

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In Depth

Insights by the Global Director for Education at the World Bank, Luis Benveniste, on how the bank and other partners are responding to the learning crisis.
Podcast

Global Director for Education, Luis Benveniste, shares his thoughts with the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Swapping Debt to #FundEducation

The debt swap��the first of its kind supported by the World Bank Group��will help C?te d��Ivoire reduce costly debt, freeing up resources for the country to invest in schools.
The Roadmap for Safer and Resilient Schools (RSRS) supports strategies and investment plans to make schools safer and resilient at scale.

Teachers brief on safe schools
What's happening in the World Bank Global Education Department? Read to learn more.
Impact Evaluations

Research that measures the impact of education policies to improve education in low and middle income countries.

Compendium of World Bank Supported Impact Evaluations
Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund (SIEF)
Education Videos

Watch our latest videos featuring our projects across the world