Strengthen Higher Education financing mechanisms to ensure greater accessibility to quality Higher Education for all
Commitment description:Action 1: By 2023, at least 25,000 students given opportunity to study under the free first-degree scheme
Action 2: By 2023, at least 1000 students awarded HE scholarships
Action.3: By 2023, at least 2500 students receive loan to pursue HE abroad and in Maldives
Action 4: By 2021, loan administration fee reduced to 1%
Action 5: By 2023, 500 vulnerable youth received higher education scholarships and/or loans
Action 6: By 2021, all HE data collected, managed and compiled via a Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS)
Mode of engagement:
- Programmatic actionHarnessing the demographic dividend through investing in adolescents’ and youth’s education, employment opportunities and health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health and services
Draw on demographic diversity to drive economic growth and achieve sustainable development(8) Investing in the education, employment opportunities, health, including family planning and sexual and reproductive health services, of adolescents and youth, especially girls, so as to fully harness the promises of the demographic dividend.
