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JFPR 9040: School Improvement Project
Tajikistan, Republic of; (TAJ)

Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Grant Summary

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Name of Counterpart Project

Education Sector Reform Project

Grant Type

Project

Task Officer/ Department

Raikhan Sabirova
ECRD

Budget

Total Budget: 2.5 million
JFPR Grant: 2.0 million

Executing Agency

Ministry of Education

Implementing Agency

District Departments of Education in 5 pilot districts

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Scope

Eligible primary and general secondary schools in 5 pilot districts will develop proposals to seek funds for school improvement. The departments of education in pilot districts will review and finance school improvement plans based on a set of criteria and school mapping information. The Project supports innovations in school improvement, community mobilization and system improvement for improved access to better quality primary and general secondary education to complement the Education Sector Reform Project, which will be implemented in parallel.

Objectives

Grant Development Objective (GDO)
  • Increased access to improved education for school age children, particularly girls, of poor families and vulnerable groups
Project Purpose
  • To assist the Departments of Education in the five pilot districts to implement the school improvement program to support increases in enrollment rates and improve the quality of learning in primary and secondary schools, particularly for girls and vulnerable groups. The JFPR will complement the Education Sector Reform Project.
Expected Outputs
  • Principal JFPR outputs will be baseline school mapping information from the five pilot districts, list of schools to receive school improvement and school rehabilitation funds with a package of inputs and associated costs for each eligible school, training needs and training schedule, training program, procedural manual and guidelines for preparing School Improvement Funds (SIFs)/School Rehabilitation Funds (SRFs), guidelines for reviewing SIFs/SRFs proposals, and monitoring and evaluation program.

Main Project Components and Activities

1. School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to focus on:

  • innovative support to heating, water and sanitation
  • stipends to girls in grades 10 and 11
  • locally responsive schemes
2. Advocacy and Community Mobilization. Parent-teacher associations and school community bodies (such as village organizations) of each district will come together to establish mechanisms to
  • support schools in generating baseline information
  • communicate school/community needs and concerns upward to the appropriate nodes in the system
  • communicate important information downward to the schools/communities
  • facilitate the lateral sharing of lessons learned, innovations, concerns, and accomplishments among the schools/communities
  • lobby on behalf of their schools/ communities
  • guide appropriate reform
3. Capacity Building to support
  • training of school directors, other teaching and non-teaching staff, parents and community leaders in school improvement and participation
  • MOE, DOE and school officials to improve school conditions
  • training of key education staff at district DOEs, schools and district akimats to support decentralized primary and general secondary education with a focus on school improvement and effective targeting and monitoring