Education Quality Improvement Project

The development objectives of the Education Quality Improvement Project for Moldova are to: (i) improve the learning environment in participating institutions, with an emphasis on supporting disadvantaged students; and (ii) strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Education and Research for sector management and refugee response. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improving quality of teaching objective is to improve teaching practices in the classroom as a major element driving student learning. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improve teaching practices of participating teachers; (ii) develop, pilot, implement, and evaluate a learning recovery program for disadvantaged students; and (iii) decentralized approach to teacher professional development and innovative instructional practices. The second component, improving the quality of learning environment in participating institutions objective is to improve the quality physical and digital learning environments in targeted schools (grades 1 to 12) and preschools aligned to the quality standards for infrastructure and equipment. It consists of following sub-components: (i) equipping selected schools; (ii) rehabilitation of selected educational institutions; and (iii) building modern high schools. The third component, strengthening the capacity for education sector management and refugee response will finance activities aimed to strengthen capacity of the Ministry of Education and Research (MoER) for education sector management and refugee response in Moldova. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening education sector management and refugee response; and (ii) project management. The fourth component, contingent emergency response component is included to support the country’s future response if a natural or man-made disaster or emergency arises, in line with the procedures governed by paragraph 12, Section III of the World Bank Policy, Investment Project...