📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P172434
Region: Africa
Commitment Amount: Us$ 40.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 40.00 million
The proposed project will focus on establishing and strengthening systems at the FGS MoECHE and the FMS level, to successfullyimplement the government’s ESSP. A key focus area will be to strengthen the stewardship role of the federal government, specifically asit relates to standard and policy setting in relation to teachers and school management and strengthening its role in monitoring of the sector. It will also focus on strengthening government capacity to coordinate sector activities through stronger intergovernmental engagement in the sector and to coordinateexternal support. To enable the federal government to effectively play a stewardship role for the sector, the projectwill invest in building the capacity of MoECHE to monitor sector outcomes effectively and strengthen education system governance and accountability. The support will be fully alignedwith other efforts in the sector. 16.The project will also support implementation of high potential, short term interventions that can rapidly increase schooling opportunities with a focus on the most disadvantaged communities in Somalia, specifically girls.The project proposes to leverage Somalia’s strengths, including its high mobile penetration to test innovative approaches to enhancing teaching quality and provide effective teaching and learning material to students using digital technology. The project will also support development of essentialfoundations for the system, i.e. a robust system for regularly and reliably collecting data on sector outcomes, specifically student learning, and enhanced institutional capacity for service delivery. The proposed project would have a specific focus on improving girls’ participation in schooling. This will be integrated throughout project design, for instance by introducing incentives for increasing and maintaining girls’ enrolment in school, encouraging recruitment of female teachers and prioritizing support for female teachers and schools.
