- Grant should improve primary learning results: WB.
- The initiative aims to benefit 80,000 children outside the province.
- Will also reinforce efforts to improve the governance of the education sector.
Islamabad: World Bank (WB) approved a 47.9 million dollars subsidy for Pakistan, funded by the Global Partnership Fund for Education, to help improve the participation of girls and boys at pre-prime and primary levels in Punjab.
“The new support should improve learning results at the primary level and strengthen support for corrective learning at the elementary level of schooling,” WB said in a statement.
“Obtaining results: access and provision of quality education services and the transformation of the system in the Punjab project”, he said, would expand early childhood education, reinstall children outside the school, strengthen teachers’ support and improve the responsiveness of the climate change and emergency sector.
By contributing to stronger human capital and improving shock resilience, the project targets the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable populations, in accordance with the twin objectives of the World Bank group to eliminate extreme poverty and to promote shared prosperity and its framework for national partnership (CPF) with Pakistan.
“This project represents a crucial step towards the fight against poverty learning and ensuring fair access to quality education through Punjab,” said the director of the country of Pakistan Bolormaa Amgaabazar.
By strengthening fundamental learning, improving the capacity of the system and promoting behavioral changes, she said, the project would support the development of long-term human capital and economic growth in the province.
The project aims to benefit more than four million children, including 80,000 children outside, more than three million children in schools in the School Education Department (SED), around 850,000 children in the non -formal sector and 140,000 children at different levels in schools in the Department of Special Education (SPED).
In addition, more than 100,000 teachers and school leaders, as well as parents and community members, would benefit from professional development and awareness campaigns.
Indirect beneficiaries include all students from SED, SPED and non -formal schools who will gain wider system reforms.
“The project is aligned with the Punjab government’s education reform program, which aims to create a more efficient, responsible and inclusive education system,” said WB work team leader for the Izzza Farrakh project.
“He will do so by supporting government efforts to improve governance, management and ability of the education sector.
