| Project Detail |
The REPAIR Project is designed for a low-income, fragility, conflict and violence-affected setting to address the countrys specific challenges. It is structured into four key components, each with targeted actions to address infrastructure, emergency response and inclusion, quality, and education system strengthening. Component 1: Expanding Access to Safe, Modern, and Resilient Educational Infrastructure (US$118 million) will support new and renovated infrastructure designed for long-term durability, enhanced accessibility for all learners, and efficient use of space to support diverse educational needs. Activities include: construction of metropolitan multi-level school complexes; construction of three-classroom blocks with related amenities; cnstruction of preschools integrated into existing primary schools; and renovation of primary schools. Component 2: Supporting Education in Emergencies and Ensuring Inclusion (US$30 million) will support the establishment of temporary learning spaces and opportunities to return to schooling for displaced students; support for children with disabilities with school health visits (screenings) and aides (learning aids such as eyeglasses, hearing aids, and wheelchairs); provision of psychosocial support for students and teachers; and test gender-focused initiatives. Component 3: Improving Foundational Learning (US$42.7 million) will ensure the availability of learning materials for students, supporting the development, update and distribution of education materials for pre-primary and primary grades in french, bilingual languages, and non-formal education, both in paper form and digital applications. It will also support teacher professional development through a new pedagogical supervision framework and supervisors (encadreurs); Component 4: Strengthening Institutional Capacity (US$12.4 million) will support the development of a better systems for student management, learning assessments, and student evaluations. It will also strengthen data collection for better decision making. Lastly, it will provide the institutional capabilities for large-scale project management. Over two million students and approximately 40,000 teachers are expected to benefit from project interventions. Specifically, 120,000 students are expected to benefit from construction investments under Component 1. This figure includes approximately 60,000 female students, 13,500 IDP students, 15,000 host communities and at least 5,000 refugee students. Under component 2, at least 85,000 students are expected to benefit from emergency education and inclusion activities supported by the project. Quality improvement activities including the distributions of textbooks and teacher guides are expected to benefit more that 2.2 million students and 40,000 teachers as a part of investments in Component 3. Component 4 is expected to benefit the education system under MEBAPLN as a whole and individual government staff who receive training and capacity strengthening, but individual students will not be counted as direct beneficiaries. The development objectives of the project are to: (i) expand access to pre-primary and primary education in selected areas; (ii) improve learning in supported schools; and (iii) strengthen education services. |
