Côte d’Ivoire plans to invest CFA3,805.4 billion (about $7.2 billion) in the education sector between 2018 and 2020, the Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly (picture) revealed.

“Over 2018-2020, the budget allocated to the education sector is CFA3, 8054 billion. So, Côte d’Ivoire deserves to be supported by its partners,” he said during the 3^rd Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Funding Conference held on Feb. 2, in Dakar.

He further stressed that in 2016, “Côte d’Ivoire dedicated 27% of its budget to the education, and the sector accounted for 41.8% of public expenditures, debt excluded”.

The above-mentioned conference’s main objective was to mobilize $3.1 billion from funders for 2018-20 to support education of 870 children in 89 developing countries where 78% of the global out-of-school children are concentrated.

The conference also aimed to encourage developing countries to increase their investment in the education sector to 20% of the budget.