About our work

The World Bank global education strategy focuses on ensuring that all children can learn. Our goal is to enable all people to develop their full potential through access to quality education and lifelong learning.

The World Bank supports countries in developing foundational skills such as literacy, basic numeracy, and socio-emotional capabilities, which are the building blocks for all further learning. At all levels of education, children and young people receive support to acquire the skills needed to advance in school and enter the labor market. 

The institution provides governments with technical assistance, loans, and grants, and support countries to disseminate and apply innovative solutions in the field of education. The World Bank support to countries spans the entire learning cycle with the aim of supporting resilient, equitable, and inclusive education systems that ensure everyone learns.

Our work, in numbers

Over the last decade, the World Bank has been at the forefront of the fight against the learning crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Between fiscal years 2013 and 2025, the organization executed 57 education projects in 19 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean, with an investment of USD $6.103 billion in commitments. 

The current active portfolio includes projects in 17 countries, valued at approximately USD $2.6 billion.

More than half of the portfolio is results-based. This trend reflects a strategy of prioritizing larger-scale projects with a transformative impact on communities. In fiscal year 2025, the World Bank education unit in the region supported 6.75 million students, including 1.3 million in higher education, trained 50,000 teachers, and supported four countries in modernizing their curricula and learning standards.  

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