Basic Education Project

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The development objective of the Basic Education Project for Peru is to improve the Ministerio de Educacion - Ministry of Education (MINEDU's) capacity to evaluate student learning, instructional practice, and school leadership in basic education. There are three components to the project. The first component is evaluating student learning. this component includes provision of support for the implementation of eligible budget activities supporting the program, including, inter alia: (a) the scale up of the existing second grade student assessment to cover additional grades and subject areas in primary education and secondary education schools; (b) the introduction of internationally validated methodologies for measuring child development outcomes and quality of services in preschool education; and (c) provision of support for the borrower's continued participation in international assessments managed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in order to compare trends in national results with international benchmarks. The second component is evaluating instructional practice and school leadership. This component includes provision of support for the implementation of the eligible budget activities supporting the program, including, inter alia, activities to strengthen MINEDU's capacity for monitoring and evaluating the quality of instructional practice at the classroom level, as well as, for implementing a competency-based system for selecting and training candidates to school management positions. The third component is strengthening MINEDU's implementation capacity. This component includes provision of support for the implementation of the eligible budget activities, supporting the program, including, inter alia, activities to strengthen MINEDU's capacity to improve its education management and monitoring capacity for the activities supported by the program and its operational and fiduciary capacity for the implementation of the program, including the carrying out of independent technical, financial and procurement reviews.