Supporting Education Reform in Targeted Circuits

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The development objective of the Supporting Education Reform in Targeted Circuits Project for Ecuador is to increase enrollment in early education and improve the persistence rate in lower secondary education and upper secondary education in the targeted circuits. The project comprises of two components. The first component, improving school services in targeted circuits aim to improve the actual and perceived quality of education services, accessed by students and families, which will lead to increases in enrollment and graduation from early childhood to upper secondary education. It consists of following four sub-components: (i) infrastructure, equipment, and furniture for schools hubs; (ii) professional development for teachers and principals; (iii) academic management system at school level - online educational community (CEL); and (iv) services for students with disabilities and special education. The second component, strengthening planning, management, and evaluation capacity at reorganization model for the provision of education (MINEDUC) aim to strengthen MINEDUC’s planning, management, and evaluation capacity, including: (i) the development of modules of the management information system; (ii) the enhancement of millennium schools management unit (GUEM) and work contracting service (SECOB’s) project management capacity; and (iii) the carrying out of two impact evaluations on the program’s outcomes. It consists of following two sub-components: (i) management and information systems; and (ii) management, monitoring and specific studies and impact evaluation.