Jordan Education Reform Support Program

The development objective of Education Reform Support Program‐for‐Results is to expand access to early childhood education, and to improve student assessment and teaching and learning conditions for Jordanian children and Syrian refugee children. Despite strong economic and social progress in previous decades, Jordan continues to face challenges that have been amplified by the Syrian refugee crisis. The PforR Program supports a sub‐portion of the government program (NESP) across four key Result Areas. These Result Areas fall under the access and quality themes for ECE, basic, and secondary education. The strategic objectives of the government program encompass access, quality, accountability, and innovation in ECE, basic, and secondary education. The PforR Result Areas have been selected to leverage key MOE interventions that will be critical on achieving the goals of the NHRDS. The first Result Area is expanded access and improved quality of early childhood education. The second Result Area aims to achieve improved teaching and learning conditions. The third Result Area is a reformed student assessment and certification system that will focus on strengthening the MOE’s ability to measure and monitor student learning at all grade levels and to bridge the gap between learning and certification. The fourth Result Area is strengthened education system management by focusing on supporting MOE and strengthening its capacity to manage an increasing number of schools and students, notably due to the expansion of early childhood education and to the enrollment of a large number of refugee children in Jordanian schools.