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The Fifth Education Project seeks to maintain the gains made in basic education to date, and to prepare for future progress. The project includes three components: (a) a sector policy and investment program development component, consisting of diagnostic studies and policy recommendations in the four priority areas of: instructional delivery; educational finance; organizational structure; and school construction and maintenance; (b) a quality improvement component including: (i) training and travel provisions for pedagogical advisors; (ii) providing in-service training to primary school personnel and administrators; (iii) providing textbooks and teachers' manuals; (iv) developing and administering end-of-cycle achievement tests; (v) reconstruction or rehabilitating primary schools; (vi) providing furniture, equipment and instructional materials to primary schools; (vii) continuing and expanding a technical support program; and (c) a resource management component including: (i) technical assistance for updating the personnel management, budgeting, and monitoring systems; (ii) improving the administrative and accounting procedures of private primary schools; and (iii) financing project administration.

World Bank Group

Project

Government, Education