Improving Inclusion in Secondary and Higher Education

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The scope of the proposed Operation would be to support a subset of Government Programs (GP) from 2019 to 2023, clustered around two results areas under a PforR component (US$300 million) and a Component that would use the IPF instrument (US$40.1 million). The total cost of the activities under the Operation is estimated at about US$1.133 billion, of which US$341 million would be financed through the Bank loan. Component 1: Program for ResultsResults Area 1. Improving the management and monitoring of PROGRESAR scholarships (IBRD: US$290 million, Total: US$1.1 billion). This Results Area would improve the targeting, management, monitoring and efficiency of PROGRESAR through the financing of PROGRESAR scholarships.Results Area 2. Supporting the National Student and Teacher Evaluation Systems (IBRD: US$10 million, Total: US$13 million). This Results Area would support the Borrower’s national evaluation systems for students, teachers and teacher training institutes, through the financing of annual census-based APRENDER student evaluations for the period 2020-2023, teacher evaluations for teacher training scholarships, and teacher and teacher training institute evaluations under ENSEÑAR.Component 2: IPFComponent 2: Strengthen the Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for the Design, Implementation, and M&E of PROGRESAR, ENSEÑAR, APRENDER, and ASISTIRÉ (US$40.1 million). The objective of this Component would be to secure the long-term implementation sustainability of the GP supported in Component 1, and to support the scale-up and evaluation of a dropout prevention program. This component would provide support to the MECCyT’s existing budget, with the possibility of crowding in resources during implementation. The Component would improve the quality of implementation and support improvements in the programs’ design to increase their effectiveness.