Additional Financing for the Improving Inclusion in Secondary and Higher Education

The development objectives of the Additional Financing for the Improving Inclusion in Secondary and Higher Education Project for Argentina are to: (i) reduce dropout rates in basic and higher education among the most vulnerable; and (ii) strengthen the Borrower’s education evaluation systems. The additional financing (AF) will scale up the Program for Results (PforR) component of the parent operation, with no additional financing provided to the Investment Project Financing (IPF) component. The AF will maintain and scale up the original program development objective (PDO) and results areas, while also adding new results to increase the Program’s impacts, under an additional implementation period of 36 months. The AF will build on the results achieved to date under the parent Operation and further strengthen and support the expansion of these programs to help students progress in their education trajectories, with a continued prioritization of vulnerable populations that are disproportionately affected by learning losses and are at higher risk of dropping out from the education system.