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DFID Annual Report and Accounts 2014 to 2015 Results achieved by sector: Education

Published 16 July 2015

A good education is a human right, a global public good and a necessary ingredient for economic development and poverty reduction. Education enables people to live healthier and more productive lives. The UK government is committed to helping to ensure that every girl and boy can access and complete a good quality basic education^{[footnote 1]}. The Millennium Development Goals include a target to ensure that by 2015 children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Significant progress has been made on getting children into primary school with the number of children out of school dropping from 106 million in 1999 to 58 million in 2012^{[footnote 2]}. This progress shows what sustained national and international investment can achieve but more needs to be done – and done differently – to ensure all girls and boys are not just in school but learning while there. It is estimated that there are at least 250 million children who cannot read or count, even if they have spent 4 years in school^{[footnote 3]}. Learning is a vital dimension of a quality education and is at the heart of DFID’s education programming.

1. DFID commitment

DFID has made the following commitments:

• to support 11 million children in primary and secondary schools by March 2015^{[footnote 4]}, including at least 5.2 million girls
• to train more than 190,000 teachers^{[footnote 5]} and improve the quality of education and children’s learning^{[footnote 6]}

2. Indicators used to measure progress

There are 3 education indicators used to measure progress on ensuring boys and girls can access and complete a good quality basic education:

• number of children supported by DFID in primary and lower secondary education, by sex
• number of children completing primary education supported by DFID, by sex
• number of teachers trained (through multilateral funding)

The first indicator provides an estimate of the number of children which DFID fully funds to be enrolled in primary and lower secondary school, or the number of children which we can demonstrate would not be in school, or not learning at all, without DFID support.

3. Results achieved

By 2014–15, DFID had achieved the following results:

• supported 11.0 million children in primary and lower secondary school – including 5.3 million girls
• supported 1.8 million children, including 910,000 girls, to complete primary school – this result is based on the number of children completing primary school education supported by DFID and uses the number of new entrants to the last grade of primary education as an estimate for those completing primary school
• through multilateral channels, DFID supported the training of 177,000 teachers

It should be noted that these results do not represent the full reach of DFID’s investments in education. Some significant DFID education investments, including (for example) some technical assistance and support for improved education data, as well as training teachers, are not reflected in these results. The results above also do not include children supported through global or multilateral programmes such as the Girls’ Education Challenge Fund and the Global Partnership for Education.

4. Progress towards DFID results commitments

Results achieved up to 2014-15 inclusive
Indicator	Indicator type	Results Commitment	Male	Female	Not Identified	Total
Number of children supported by DFID in primary and lower secondary education	Peak year	11,000,000	5,720,000	5,360,000	0	11,080,000
Number of children completing primary education supported by DFID	Cumulative	No specific target	890,000	910,000	0	1,820,00
Number of teachers trained*	Cumulative	190,000	0	0	177,000	177,000

*Results delivered through multilateral channels only

5. Results achieved by country/department

The highest numbers of children supported in primary and lower secondary school by the end of 2014–15 were in Ethiopia (2.7 million), India (1.4 million), South Sudan (1.4 million), Pakistan (1.2 million) and Bangladesh (0.8 million). These 5 country programmes accounted for 70% of the overall 11.0 million figure. The remaining 16 country programmes (and one centrally managed programme) each account for around 5% or less of the overall 11 million figure.

5.1 Number of children supported by DFID in primary and lower secondary education (by country/department)

Number of children supported by DFID in primary and lower secondary education (by country/department)

6. Results achieved by multilateral organisations

The following results are delivered by multilateral organisations, and fall broadly within the education sector. These indicators were included in the multilateral section of DFID’s Results Framework. The results presented here are based on all funding that the multilateral receives, not just funding from DFID or the UK. These results are presented alongside DFID’s share of core funding to the multilateral organisations, in order to illustrate that DFID contributes a share of those results. Multilateral abbreviations and results sources can be found in the results technical notes.

Indicator	Multilateral	Reporting period	Latest Results	DFID’s contribution as a % of total core funding[footnote 7]
Number of teachers trained	AsDB[footnote 8]	2014	476,000	5
Number of teachers trained	GPE	FY 2012-13	98,000	22
Number of teachers trained	IADB[footnote 8]	2014	66,000	2
Number of teachers recruited or trained	IDA	FY 2013-14	800,000	11
Number of education ministry officials trained and coached in strategic planning and management	UNESCO	2013	1,000	6

1. 11 DFID (July 2011) Education position paper. Improving learning, expanding opportunities ↩

2. UNESCO (2015) Education For All Global Monitoring Report ↩

3. UNESCO (2013/14) Education For All Global Monitoring Report ↩

4. DFID (March 2011) UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results ↩

5. DFID (March 2011) UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results. To be achieved through multilateral channels only. ↩

6. DFID (March 2011) UK aid: Changing lives, delivering results ↩

7. The DFID burden share presented here are not suitable to calculate a DFID results attribution of multilateral results. The results presented in this table are achieved through all funding streams that the multilateral receive, not just limited to core funding. ↩

8. Burden share relates to the concessionary fund only. The results presented are achieved through concessionary and non-concessionary funds of the Bank. ↩ ↩²