Maldives Atoll Education Development Project (WB-P177768)

Regions
  • South Asia
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Maldives
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Financial Institutions
  • World Bank (WB)
International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.
Project Status
Approved
Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.
Bank Risk Rating
B
Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."
Voting Date
Jan 20, 2022
Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.
Borrower
Ministry of Finance, Maldives
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Education and Health
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 9.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Loan Amount (USD)
$ 9.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 10.00 million
Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.
Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ WB website

Updated in EWS Oct 18, 2022

Disclosed by Bank Jan 5, 2022

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to World Bank documents, the objective of the proposed investment is to enhance access to, and quality of, secondary education in Maldives.

The proposed Project will support the Government of Maldives (GoM) to improve learning outcomes in science, mathematics and English in the general education system, with a special focus on the secondary education grades 7- 10. The Project will also support the GoM to enable students to access vocational education opportunities in secondary education. The Project will also strengthen teacher performance through focused continuing teacher development initiatives and school-based teacher development programs. In addition, the Project will support the development and implementation of national assessments of learning outcomes for students at secondary grades with international modules. Further, the Project will assist the implementation of internal and external quality assurance and quality enhancement activities in schools. FInally, the Project will support coordination and monitoring, and technical assistance and communication.

The Project is expected to directly benefit about 69,000 students, including around 3,000 children with special education needs, and approximately 8,000 teachers. In addition, the Project will indirectly benefit suppliers of education material and equipment, and later on employers and tertiary education institutions that will receive better qualified secondary school completers.

The Project will assist the MoE mainly for soft interventions in terms of educational curriculum reforms to roll out two innovations to the secondary school curriculum,(i) a vocational skills option will be added to the secondary education grades and (ii) STEM subjects will be introduced in the secondary and higher secondary grades. 

Investment Description
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Contact Information
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Ministry of Education Moosa Adam
Senior Policy Advisor moosa.adam@moe.gov.mv

1.Harsha Aturupane,

Lead Economist

Telephone: 5723+306

Email ID:daturupane@worldbank.org

2.Karthika Radhakrishnan,

Senior Education Specialist

Telephone:5770+6261 / 977-1-4236261

Email ID: knair@worldbank.org

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