Kindergarten students read at the Seventh Day Adventist Primary School in Grenada. Credit: USAID/Carol Gaskin

Partner since:

Total grant support: US$33,264,283

Grant eligibility:

  • Multiplier
  • System capacity
  • System transformation

Partnership compact

Priority: Successful implementation of an enhanced curriculum and assessment strategy for lower secondary schools.

Other key documents

Coordinating agency: Caribbean Development Bank, CDB

GPE Team lead: Mohamed Yassine

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Transforming education in Grenada

In Grenada, a primary education curriculum reform is underway, and the upper secondary curriculum is strongly shaped by final exams, but there is no official curriculum for lower secondary education.

Lacking guidance on how to define curriculum content and assess students, lower secondary teacher turnover rates are high, and teaching quality is low.

The government is working with GPE and other partners to implement an enhanced curriculum and assessment strategy for lower secondary schools.

Grenada’s Partnership Compact emphasizes improving national capacity to develop, implement and assess the curriculum, which will promote Grenadian values and address the diversity of students’ learning needs.

Relevant existing teaching and learning materials will be integrated into the new curriculum, and new materials will be developed.

Training for teachers and school leaders will strengthen curriculum delivery, and improved assessment strategies are intended to contribute to better teaching and learning.

Result story

OECS-GPE COVID-19 response program creates community-based employment

A multi-pronged approach in the GPE’s OECS partner countries is helping mitigate the education, health and economic impact of COVID-19.

Key data

49%

of children start learning one year before entering primary school

60%

of primary teachers have the minimum required qualifications

21%

of government expenditure on education

Grants

(data as of October 08, 2025)

 
  • Type: System transformation

    Years: 2025 - 2029

    Allocation: US$10,000,000

    Utilization: US$52,151

    Grant agent: World Bank

  • Type: Multiplier

    Years: 2025 - 2028

    Allocation: US$5,000,000

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: CDB

  • Type: Program development

    Years: 2024 - 2025

    Allocation: US$399,150

    Utilization: 0

    Grant agent: World Bank

  • Type: System capacity

    Years: 2022 - 2025

    Allocation: US$1,750,250

    Utilization: US$748,070

    Grant agent: World Bank

  • Type: Program implementation

    Years: 2021 - 2026

    Allocation: US$10,000,000

    Utilization: US$6,136,668

    Grant agent: OECS

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