Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
This group is for funders, their grantee partners, CSO networks and their members and individual organizations working throughout Sub Saharan Africa. Use this group to discuss issues of shared concern, share opportunities for collaboration and support.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s Growth Requires Quality Education for Growing Population
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Sub-Saharan Africa has made notable progress in expanding access to schools in recent decades, but outcomes in the region still trail those in other emerging market and developing economies, as we explore in our latest Regional Economic Outlook.
Nearly three in 10 school-age children do not attend school. For primary school students, the completion rate is around 65 percent, compared with a world average of 87 percent. And the literacy rate for those ages 15 to 24 is only 75 percent, below the nearly 90 percent rate in other emerging market and developing economies. On top of this, pandemic-related school closures led to learning losses that in some cases reversed years of progress.
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