| Project Detail |
The development objective of the Early Childhood Education (ECE) Project for Lao People''s Democratic Republic is to increase coverage and improve the quality of early childhood education services for 3 to 5 year olds in target districts. The project will support three components. The first component, increasing coverage of early childhood education in target districts has following two sub-components: (i) community-based contracting (CBC) for pre-primary classroom construction to transfer grants-in-aid for CBC to communities in target districts to construct up to 250 pre-primary classrooms in selected 200 existing primary schools; and (ii) community child development groups (CCDG) for 3 and 4 year olds to pilot CCDGs for 3 and 4 year olds in 48 locations where there are primary schools with pre-primary classrooms. The second component, improving quality of early childhood education services comprises of following two sub-components: (i) supporting services package to provide a package of services to target communities to improve the quality of ECE as well as to increase the demand for ECE services; and (ii) teacher and education officer training will support pre-service training of preprimary school teachers, the development of a multi-age training module, and in-service training on multi-age techniques for teachers and school administrators. The third component, project management, capacity development, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) has following two sub-components: (i) project management and capacity management to finance the incremental costs associated with project management; and (ii) M and E will include a result framework and monitoring. Closing Date: July 31, 2019. Total Project Cost: US$ 28.00 million. |
