GENERAL EDUCATION II

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The objectives of the Second General Education Project for Sri Lanka are to improve the quality, access, management and financing of existing education programs, and so increase education's responsiveness to economic needs and reducing poverty. There are nine components: 1) curriculum development, which prepares a strategy implementing a sequential and cyclical curriculum in all subjects for grades 1-9, improves curriculum management, and trains teachers; 2) textbooks/educational publications, which improve textbook content and physical condition, allow re-use and a multiple textbook option, increase private sector printing, and continue private sector delivery; 3) school facilities rationalization, which increases equitable and cost-effective allocation of educational facilities and libraries; 4) quality inputs, which supply educational materials and equipment matching the curriculum for elementary and junior high schools; 5) libraries (component), which provides books, shelves, resource materials, furniture, and trained staff in library management; 6) education management and planning, which upgrades planning capacity and develops national, provincial, and institutional plans, strengthens quality assurance and financing mechanisms, and defines policies and lines of authorities; 7) education financing, which implements a formula to improve resource allocation, trains staff, and allocates management tools and equipment; 8) impact analysis studies; and 9) project coordination.

FY17 - Education,FY17 - Public Administration

World Bank Group

Project

Government, Education