Getting Results: Access and Delivery of Quality Education Services in Punjab Project

active

Prospective

This project will help the education sector in Punjab deliver better results in education, while supporting the overall reform direction for education in the province benefiting both girls and boys. The project will have three components.Component 1 provides results-based financing to support activities of the provincial education reform agenda on three strategic priorities and has seven performance-based conditions (PBCs) associated with it. The first PBC is an overarching condition to support yearly gender-disaggregated targets for school enrolment and learning levels across the delivery chain (from province down to district and school level) to improve the focus in the overall reform agenda. The component also supports several PBCs to expand school participation by scaling public private partnerships with an additional 500,000 students, strengthen learning outcomes, and improve the management of schools. Component 2 aims to expand the availability of functional classrooms in public schools, and to reconstruct classrooms affected by the ongoing flooding. The component will finance the construction of approx. 5400 classrooms on existing government land although some land acquisition may be desirable in very limited cases. Climate smart and resilient features will include natural lighting, energy efficient lighting/appliances, raised plinths, reflective roofs, natural ventilation, tree planting/afforestation, water conservation fittings, and rainwater harvesting in high-precipitation areas. The project will make the facilities more accessible by providing wheel chair accessible ramps. The project will also adopt better standards for egress during extreme events and serve as relief centers for emergency response. Classrooms will be built targeting out of school children and designed using a whole-school approach, allowing project schools to have typically one classroom for early childhood education up to grade 5. Component 3 will finance technical assistance to support the implementation of the program, oriented towards the School Education Department and its stakeholders. The component will also finance research and Third Party Validation of outcomes achieved for Performance Based Conditions. The component will also finance project staffing to support implementation. Component 4 is a Contingent Emergency Response Component, which can be activated in case of an emergency requiring immediate assistance.

FY17 - Education

World Bank

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Government, Education