Third Punjab Education Sector Project for Pakistan

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Key Information

 

The development objective of the Third Punjab Education Sector Project for Pakistan is to support Punjab province to improve school participation, completion, and teaching-learning practices with a particular focus on low-performing districts (LPD). LPDs are ten districts that have among the lowest participation rates for children of age 6 to 15 years. The proposed project supports the implementation of the Government of Punjab’s larger education program supporting the 2018 Education Goals. The project comprises the following two components. The first will use results-based financing to support the achievement of the GoPunjab’s 2018 education goals and growth strategy through nine subcomponents along three strategic areas: (a) improving access to schooling for the poorest; (b) ensuring quality teaching and learning for all; and (c) improving leadership, management, and accountability. For each subcomponent, there will be a disbursement-linked indicator (DLI) with time-bound targets. Funds will be disbursed against agreed eligible expenditures upon the achievement of DLI targets. The project supports the first three 2018 Education Goals, that is, (a) to ensure high quality teaching and learning in the classroom; (b) to improve leadership and accountability at all levels; and (c) to enable a conducive learning environment for students. The first strategic area, improving access to schooling for the poorest will support interventions to provide students from the poorest households with financial resources and opportunities enabling them to attend school at the primary and secondary levels. It has three sub components. a) Education Voucher Scheme (EVS), b) Public-Private Partnerships in Education, and c) Stipends for Secondary School Girls. The second strategic area, Ensuring quality teaching and learning for all will support interventions to raise the quality of teaching and learning by (a) improving the quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in schools; (b) strengthening the human resources management of teachers; (c) reinforcing the field-based Continuous Professional Development (CPD) of teachers; and (d) creating an enabling context for assessment activities and improving the quality, utility, and accessibility of assessment data. Four subcomponents will support this strategic area. (a) Early Childhood Education, (b) Effective Human Resources Management for Teachers, (c) Quality in the Primary Classroom and (d) Improved Education Assessments to Enhance Quality. The third strategic area, improving leadership, management and accountability will strengthen the system of allocation and accountability in the use of non-salary budget (NSB), and better integrate and use education data to lead and efficiently manage the education system. Two subcomponents will support this strategic area. (a) School Specific Non-Salary Budgets and (b) Data Strengthening and Performance Management; The second component, capacity building, project management, monitoring, and evaluation is to strengthen implementing institutions to design, deliver, and monitor and evaluate activities to achieve their mandates and the DLIs; and to ensure efficient and effective project management. The project will provide critical and strategic technical assistance and capacity building to support and strengthen implementing agencies in the primary and secondary education subsectors in Punjab.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Pakistan

Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2018 - 2022

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

PESRP, School Education Department, Government of Punjab

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Early/child marriage
  • Empowerment
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

6 - 15

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Extending school hours

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Conditional cash transfers to schools
  • Income-generating activities
  • Scholarships/stipends for school fees
  • Vouchers/grants

Teaching

  • Hiring more teachers (both men and women)
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness