Compensatory Education

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The development objective of the Compensatory Education Project is to improve access to Early Childhood Education (ECD) services and learning outcomes of children in the most marginalized municipalities of Mexico. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is early childhood development intervention. This component will finance training of parents, relatives, and caregivers of children aged 0-4 to improve their competencies and practices in caring for children and contribute to the children's comprehensive development and school readiness. Activities under this component include: i) provision of technical assistance and training to ECD promoters, module supervisors, and zone coordinators to deliver the training of parents, relatives, and caregivers of children aged 0-4; ii) provision of out-of-school training to parents, relatives and caregivers of children aged 0-4; and iii) provision of technical assistance to design training materials for the training of parents, relatives, and caregivers of children aged 0-4. The second component of the project is interventions in basic education. This component will finance activities to support basic education in the most marginalized schools and municipalities of the Borrower. Activities under this component include: i) provision of mobile pedagogical support to under-performing students, teachers, and parents of students in under-performing schools through tutors; ii) provision of technical assistance to design materials for tutors to provide the mobile pedagogical; and iii) provision of technical assistance to strengthen the capacity of selected municipalities to carry out strategic planning and to delegate to selected municipalities, as allowed under the Borrower's legal framework, the responsibility to carry out selected activities of CONAFE (National Council for Education Development - Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo) to manage and supervise the provision of early childhood education services. The third component of the project is This Component will finance the provision of technical assistance and training to strengthen the capacity of CONAFE to implement manage the Project, and provision of technical assistance and training to CONAFE and external stakeholders (such as associations with an interest in local development, municipal associations, etc.) to monitor and evaluate the project and other early childhood development programs of the Borrower.