Impact in sub-Saharan Africa
The situation is most dire in sub-Saharan Africa, where nearly 1 million new posts, must be created in order to meet the rising demand for primary education. Some countries in the region need to more than double their current teaching workforce to meet the goal of UPE. The most critical teacher gaps are found in Burkina Faso, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Malawi, Mali and Niger, which will need to increase their teaching forces by more than 10% per year to ensure enough primary-level teachers are in classrooms by 2015.