Ghana Education Outcomes Fund

Intervention

Social or environmental challenge

Whilst Ghana has made progress in expanding access to education, there are still over 450,000 primary-aged children who are out-of-school. For children in-school, learning outcomes are poor. In terms of years of schooling, though children in the country are expected to complete on average 11.6 years of schooling, 5.7 of these years are lost due to poor school content.

Description of the intervention

Ghana’s Ministry of Education will work with social investors and NGOs as service providers to implement the program, with the objectives of re-integrating OOSC into Ghana’s mainstream school system through an accelerated learning program and improving learning outcomes in the schools in which these children are placed, with special emphasis on girls’ education. The project will also help build sustainable capacity in targeted schools. Investors will provide the upfront financing in cases where service providers are unable to do so. Outcome payments to investors and/or service providers will be based on agreed-upon outcomes, and technical assistance will be provided for building government capacity to contract and manage outcomes.

Target population

Out of school children (OOSC) and primary school children grades P1-P4 attending a subset of GALOP beneficiary schools in which OOSC are placed. Emphasis placed on girls.

Outcome metrics

• (1) increase in number of OOSC placed into formal schools, disaggregated by gender
• (2) average learning gains for OOSC, disaggregated by gender
• (3) retention rate of previously OOSC in formal schools, disaggregated by gender
• (4) average learning gains in numeracy and literacy at P2 and P4 in target schools, disaggregated by gender

Last data update

Data for this pipeline project was last updated in March 2024