So far in 2019, the School Improvement Grant Programme (SIG) has reached 4357 schools and 1,559,963 learners and with a total disbursement of US$10,082,000.The School Improvement Grant Programme aims at providing financially constrained schools with resources to address their most basic needs and meet a set of school functionality criteria with the aim of improving the quality of teaching and learning at the school level and reducing user fee costs for vulnerable students. This enables targeted needy schools to at least meet a minimum set of school functionality criteria. The programme prioritizes funding to the disadvantaged schools, serving the poorest communities with the poorest levels of resources. The , 1,559,963 learners reached include 785,559 boys and 774,404. The SIG has reached all ten provinces with the following numbers of schools per province:
Manicaland 570
Matebeleland North 519
Mashonaland West 550
Mashonaland East 525
Harare 4
Mashonaland Central 352
Matebeleland South 360
Masvingo 487
Midlands 598
Bulawayo 17
Mop up 375
