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Project Name Sustaining Access to and Quality of Education During Economic Difficulties Project (Additional Financing)
Project Number 50091-006
Country / Economy Mongolia
Project Status Approved
Project Type / Modality of Assistance Loan
The additional financing will scale up the scope of the ongoing project by increasing number of schools and kindergartens by nine and the overall project will have in total 30 schools and kindergartens to be constructed and expanded and provided with the required furniture and equipment for their operations. The impact and outcome of the overall project will remain unchanged from the ongoing project. The construction and provision of furniture and equipment will be added to Output 1 of the ongoing project: Gap in enrollment capacity of schools and kindergartens narrowed, but the remaining outputs will remain unchanged.
Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy As of school year of 2022 (SY), there were in total 859 schools in country of which 688 or 80.1% were public. Three free years of pre-primary education are provided at public kindergartens (985 or 69.7% of kindergartens). In 2021, the gross enrollment rate (GER) reached 97.0% for primary education, 96.3% for junior secondary and 96.7% for senior secondary education. In coming years, the high growth of school-age population is expected. The gap in enrollment capacity of schools and kindergartens remain to be persistent partly due to the lack of available seats at public schools and kindergartens. In five years or from SY2018 to SY2022, student enrollment in public schools increased by 23.5%, outpacing the rate of increase in the number of public schools (4.9%). Enrollments in public kindergartens moderately increased by 4.2%, though 96 more public kindergartens (10.8% increase) were newly opened. Ulaanbaatar saw a particularly significant expansion in student enrollment, recording a 38.0% surge in schools and a 6.8% increase in kindergartens, largely because of ruralurban migration. Three of the six schools that operated in three shifts in SY2022 were in Ulaanbaatar, and the average class size in Ulaanbaatar (33.5 in schools, and 30.2 in kindergartens) was bigger than the national average (30.2 in schools and 29.9 in kindergartens). Due to the increase in school-age population, there is a growing tendency in the number of schools with three shifts. Although according to the official statistics, there were only six schools operating in three shifts in SY 2002, this number is going to reach 68 in SY 2023 including 47 schools in Ulaanbaatar and 21 outside of Ulaanbaatar. As the gap in enrollment capacity of schools and kindergartens persistently exists nowadays, the government requested the additional financing of $15 million to cover the funding gap for the construction and expansion of originally planned schools and kindergartens.
Impact
More accessible, more equitable, and better quality education system developed |
