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Project Description
To contribute to the PDO of the original Project, this Additional Financing will scale up activities and incorporate a few
changes to the Project through its restructuring.
The following new activities will be incorporated:
I. Component 1, “Access and equity,” Subcomponent 1.1: This will continue to support improved access
and equity by advocating education for girls by incorporating access to existing schools through
transport services. The AF will finance, among others, the acquisition and/or rental of vehicles,
insurance, tracking devices, the salaries of support staff and any other expense geared towards
maintaining vehicles in good mechanical condition. These activities will enhance the capacity of the
Secretary of Education to offer transport services to student who do not easy access to schools.
The following activities will be scaled up:
II. Component 1, “Access and equity,” Subcomponent 1.2: This will finance existing activities to support
transition to higher level of education. To this end the AF will make classrooms functional at selected
primary, middle and high schools. This includes, among others, the construction of new classrooms
in existing schools, minor repairs and civil works, the procurement of furniture and other school
equipment, teacher and student learning materials, including sports goods, and other goods to make
classrooms functional. The school where classrooms are to be provided and/or made functional will
be determined through an established criterion by the Project.
III. Component 3 (“Technical assistance for improved capacity for management and monitoring”): In
addition, and in order to Mobilize and engage communities in siting, and supporting Primary schools
and the Selection of Female teachers through test based recruitment, the AF will fund activities to
actively involve and create capacity of Parent-Teacher School Management Committees (PTSMCs) to
identify viable school for expansion under Components 1 and 2. The PTSMCs will play an active role
in ensuring teacher presence and availability and providing the necessary safe and secure
environment for girls and female teachers. Additionally, the schools to be expanded and upgraded
will also have additional teacher requirement. Teacher needs will be fulfilled through a test-based teacher recruitment system. The teacher recruitment will focus mainly on ensuring availability of
Mathematics, English and Science teachers. The AF will fund teacher salaries while the education
system nominates them, capacity building for teachers, training activities, and other supporting
activities. As in the original Project, the AF will fund activities of monitoring and compliance of legal
agreements, such as procurement, safeguards, financial management. This will include, among
others, third party validation and monitoring, internal audits, citizen engagement, awareness and
advocacy activities, technical assistance activities for management and monitoring to improve school
governance, operational costs, including salaries of staff at the Project Management Unit (PMU), and
other activities that ensures the quality implementation of other activities of the project. This is also
part of mobilizing and engaging communities. As part of the technical assistance activities, the Project
will also fund a functional analysis of the programs to facilitate transport for students and teachers. |
