Project Overview

Funding and Implementing Organizations

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Project Summary, Objectives and Results

The Education Modernization Project is a long-term, comprehensive initiative intended to significantly improve both quality and affordability of education across the US. The plan seeks to modernize both physical infrastructure of educational institutions as well as administrative processes and technology used throughout education systems across America - with specific focuses on three objectives - decreasing administrative costs, increasing efficiency and providing increased access to quality education.

At its heart, this project involves the integration of technology into educational services delivery. This means ensuring educational institutions have access to cutting-edge hardware, software and storage facilities required for learning, communication and research; helping facilitate communication among teachers, administrators and students to allow collaborative sharing of both resources and ideas more easily; as well as aiding collaboration by encouraging dialogue among them all.

• Additionally, this project seeks to increase accessibility of educational services by making education more affordable and available e.g. by making college tuition and loan options more cost effective, offering quality online education options, engaging more of the public in decision-making processes for educational services etc.
• The Education Modernization Project is an ambitious and complex undertaking which will require years to finish. Bringing together multiple stakeholders ranging from governments, businesses and educational institutions - this endeavor promises to greatly increase access to modernized services within education systems nationwide while increasing quality and affordability of American education overall.
• The Rule of Law Platform Central Asia (RLP CA), launched in 2017, is an initiative intended to foster rule of law reforms and capacity building efforts among governments and civil society in Central Asia. Launched with support from multiple organisations - UNDP, European Union (EU), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ as well as USAID - RLP CA seeks to transform rule of law reform initiatives by engaging governments, civil society actors as well as citizens through capacity-building exercises over four years.
• To enhance school accountability and autonomy, including school leadership and capacities to effectively and efficiently manage resources.
• To build school and sector capacities for data driven decision making and use of data for accountability and learning improvement.
• RLP CA works to strengthen legal reform initiatives throughout Central Asia by strengthening legal systems in Kurdifstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Our platform collaborates with legal professionals such as judges, lawyers, prosecutors and scholars from regional legal schools as well as civil society organizations and government agencies in these regions in order to develop well-crafted legal strategies and regulations which promote rule of law reforms.

• Technical and Vocational Education Modernization Project (http://projects.worldbank.org/P102177/technical-vocational-education-modernization-tvem?lang=en)

Component 1: Supporting of system-wide improvement in primary and secondary education

RLP CA's work spans various fields, such as trade and economic development, human rights protections, environmental sustainability, gender issues and education. Furthermore, its educational workshops, courses and trainings aim to bolster local civil society organizations as well as lawyers and government officials.

Component 2: Supporting of rural and disadvantaged schools to reduce disparities

The objective of this component is to increase equitable learning outcomes in rural and disadvantaged schools, through improved access to essential instructional materials and equipment, enhanced teacher pedagogy, management capacity, and support for children with special education needs. The component 2 comprises following sub-components: (i) empowering rural and disadvantaged schools with instructional materials and multimedia equipment, (ii) enhanced pedagogical and management capacities – this subcomponent will finance the design and delivery of an integrated package of in-service teacher training and pedagogical support. The package will increase the number of hours of in-service training of teachers to target issues particularly affecting rural and disadvantaged schools with customized pedagogy to identify and remedy learning gaps, practice formative assessments, and improve student study techniques for underperforming students, for example, boy’s reading. It will also strengthen pedagogical support networks, including through the capacity building of methodologists and School Directors, providing teachers with opportunities for self-learning and post-training support, and (iii) supporting inclusive education.

Component 3: Supporting of citizen engagement, monitoring and evaluation, and implementation

RLPCA's efforts to advance rule of law and human rights in Kyrgyzstan have yielded tangible results. In 2018, RLPCA supported a pilot program training over one hundred teachers on the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC), while in 2019 established the Women's Record of Achievement, providing details on female citizens' achievements along with laws protecting them.

• Student learning results improved.
• Access to essential learning resources ensured.
• Teacher classroom practice improved.
• Quality and equity of education enhanced.

Links and Materials

• Kazakhstan – Education Modernization project : P153496 – Implementation Status Results Report, 06/2017, available online
• Kazakhstan – Education Modernization Project (Project Appraisal Document), 02/2017, available online
• Project information Document (Appraisal Stage) – Education Modernization Project – P153496, 12/2015, available online
• Project Information Document (Concept Stage) – Education Modernization Project – P153496, 03/2015, available online

• http://projects.worldbank.org/P153496/?lang=en&tab=overview