Senegal EFA-FTI Catalytic Fund

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The Education for All-Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) Catalytic Fund (CF) Project for Senegal aims to contribute to the Recipient's goal of attaining universal primary education by 2015, though construction and equipment of classrooms. There are three components to the project. The first component of the project is construction and equipment of classrooms. The FTI CF will finance the construction and equipping of 4,360 classrooms, including: (a) 2,010 additional classrooms (46 percent of the total construction under the CF) will be built to extend existing schools in those areas where schools are over capacity; (b) 1,900 classrooms (44 percent) will replace temporary structures put up by communities to accommodate growing demand; and (c) 450 new classrooms (10 percent) will be built as part of 150 new schools, each containing a 3-classroom block, a water point, an administrative building, a toilet block and a wall fence. Of these new schools, 100 schools (300 classrooms, constituting 7 percent of all classrooms) will be for Franco-Arabic schools in the regions of Diourbel, Louga and Kaolack that offer the official curriculum. The second component of the project is construction of auxiliary facilities in existing schools. This component will use the same criteria as component one above to select the sites where these facilities will be built in order to bring the schools up to a minimum standard. The third component of the project is coordination and monitoring/evaluation. Under this component, the CF will finance the activities necessary to coordinate the construction under components one and two, and the monitoring and evaluation mechanisms consistent with the Government's overall ten-year sector program, the Programme Dcennal de l'Education et de la Formation (PDEF). It will also provide capacity development assistance to the directorate charged with school construction.