Bangladesh COVID 19 School Sector Response (GPE)

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This Bangladesh COVID 19 School Sector Response Project will provide grant in the amount of US$14,800,000 through the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Accelerated Funding window for COVID 19 response in basic education. The proposed GPE fund is in response to a request from the Government of Bangladesh (GOB). The World Bank has been selected as the Grant Agent (GA) for processing and supervising the proposed grant through the consensus of the GOB and the Local Education Group (LEG) .The implementation period of proposed grant would be 18 months. The grant will support the GOB’s contingency plan and fund activities to mitigate and recover from COVID-19 to enable learning to continue and the education sector to recover from school closure and be more resilient to future shocks. The project will explicitly focus on safeguarding access and learning of girls and the most marginalized groups and use the crisis response for capacity building and sustainability for tackling future crises. The proposed project uses the Investment Project Financing (IPF) instrument. In view of the emergency situation, the proposed project is prepared under the condensed procedure covered by Paragraph 12 of Section III of the IPF Policy of the World Bank.

FY17 - Education

World Bank Group

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