📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174244
Region: Latin america and caribbean
Total Project Cost: Us$ 7.00 million
The proposed Project would support the Government’s efforts to address longer-term structural constraints in early childhood level, primary education and education sector management, while also supporting continuity of learning and learning recovery in the short-and medium-term.The Project would achieve its development objective through the implementation of threecomponents: 17.Component 1: Improving Learning Conditions at the Nursery level. This component aims to improve teaching and learning conditions inboth schools and homesto increase school readiness.This will be achieved through three subcomponents: teacher training at the Nursery levelto improve pedagogy and delivery of the new curriculum, provision ofaccompanying materials to support learning in class and at home, and caregiver education to support home-based learning. Methods of delivery will be adapted as the health crisis unfolds, and activities can be delivered at schools, in the home, online,or through phoneas required. 18.Component 2: Promoting Technology-Assisted Learning at the Primary level (Estimated US$3 million). This component aims to increase access to technology at the primary level to supplement teaching and support student learning in foundational skills in mathematics and literacy. This component has two subcomponents: implementation of tabletprograms and smart classrooms. The designof the tablet programwill be adapted to the current context as needed, by assigning tablets to students to use at home, exclusively or as part ofa hybrid distance/in-person model. The software on the tablets will also include offline capability to ensure ability to use in areas with low connectivity. Smart Classroomswill be equipped with smartboards,tablets, and projectors,and can be used to support a hybrid distance/in personmodel by linking teachers in classrooms to students at home, as well as provide support to in-person learning once physical schooling resumes. 19.Component 3: Strengthening Institutional Capacity and Project Management (Estimated $1 million).The aim of this component is tostrengthen the management of the education systemandsupport Project management. The component has two subcomponents. The firstsupports scaling up OpenEMIS to the national level in the nursery, primary and secondary, toenable the MOE to moreefficiently manage education sector data and use information for more effective planning andpolicymaking, and allow principals to inform decision making at the school level. The secondsubcomponent would finance project management,monitoring and evaluation, and auditing activities.
