KH-EDUCATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

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The Education Quality Improvement Project for Cambodia aims to develop a demonstration model, shown to be effective for extension to other provinces, of a participatory approach to school quality improvement and performance-based resource management. The project has two main components. The first component finances a quality improvement grants program that 1) recruits and trains "animators" (or "lightning rods") who work with community and school cluster leaders to engage them in discussions about effective schools, in identifying problems and solutions, and in developing cluster improvement plans as a basis for preparing grant proposals; 2) supports a provincial grants management committee which meets annually to review proposals; 3) provides quality improvement grants to school clusters; 4) and supplies training, monitoring, and evaluation funds for activities related to the professional development of animators as well as assisting in monitoring and evaluating grants by other officials. The second component supports the institutional strengthening/capacity building of Cambodia's education sector by supporting the National Committee on Effective Schooling; funding policy studies, including grade four examinations and decentralization); and providing operational support for provincial and district education offices.