Sudan Basic Education Support Project

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The development objective of the Basic Education Support Project for Sudan is to increase enrollment and retention and improve reading proficiency of boys and girls in early grades of primary education in target disadvantaged schools. The project comprises of four components. The first component, school improvement program will support various school level interventions including: (i) provision of school public grants for school improvement planning; (ii) provision of textbooks; and (iii) provision of reading support program. It consists of following sub-components: (i) provision of public-school grants; and (ii) provision of textbooks and reading support. The second component, systems strengthening will support capacity building in the federal ministry of education (MoE) and state MoEs for production and use of data for strategic and operational planning. It consists of following sub-components: (i) national learning assessment (NLA); (ii) Sudan annual school census (ASC); and (iii) education policy development. The third component, program coordination, monitoring and evaluation will support the federal MoE in overall program coordination, monitoring and evaluation. The fourth component is introduction of result-based financing (variable part).

FY17 - Education

World Bank Group

Project

Commercial, Government, Education