INTEGRATED SAFEGUARDS DATA SHEET
CONCEPT STAGE
Report No.: AC6086
Date ISDS Prepared/Updated: 03/09/2011
I. BASIC INFORMATION
A. Basic Project Data
Country: Kyrgyz Republic
Project ID: P113350
Project Name: Education SWAp/sector support program
Task Team Leader: Dingyong Hou
Estimated Appraisal Date: December 1,
Estimated Board Date: September 18, 2012
2011
Managing Unit: ECSHD
Lending Instrument: Specific Investment
Loan
Sector: Primary education (50%);Secondary education (50%)
Theme: Education for all (67%);Education for the knowledge economy (33%)
IBRD Amount (US$m.):
0.00
IDA Amount (US$m.):
15.00
GEF Amount (US$m.):
0.00
PCF Amount (US$m.):
0.00
Other financing amounts by source:
BORROWER/RECIPIENT
0.00
Financing Gap
0.00
0.00
B. Project Objectives [from section 2 of PCN]
The proposed project development objective is to improve the quality of general education for all
through enhanced school accountability, incentives and resources for results.
C. Project Description [from section 3 of PCN]
The project will have four components:
Component One: Enhanced school accountability and autonomy
This component aims to ensure that schools receive, manage well, and account for an equitable
allocation of resources. The focus will be on the national scaling up of per-capita financing; the
capacity building of school leaders in School based Planning and Management, budgeting and
reporting; and on the establishment and capacity building of school Boards of Trustees, including
the active participation of communities and parents and the use of School Report Card to provide
feedback and information to stakeholders
Component Two: Reformed incentives for teacher effectiveness and performance
This component aims to ensure that teachers have incentives and capacities to improve their
professional practices. The focus will be on supporting and building capacities for an improved
incentives scheme designed to promote good professional practices; reward good performance
and on improving and reforming the design and delivery of pre and in-service teacher-training
programs. Support for more equitable distribution of teachers across the system linked with
adjustment in school network and improved teacher-student ratio.
Component Three: Improved curriculum, assessment and learning resources
This component aims to ensure that more students learn a standards-based curriculum that
provides for adequate time to master essential competencies, and have sustainable access to
quality essential learning materials aligned with the curriculum. The focus will be on support to
the ongoing review and improvement of the general secondary curriculum, including its
dissemination and use; and capacity building to introduce a textbook rental scheme/fund and
reinforce autonomous mechanisms for textbooks approval and quality assurance. Improvement
of the policy framework, institutions and instruments for assessment will be aligned to the
reformed curriculum but financed under the Russian Education Aid for Development (READ).
Component Four: Strengthened sector monitoring and evaluation for result
This component aims to ensure that the MOES develops the capacity to monitor and evaluate
its strategic action plan. The focus will be on strengthening the institutional design and functions
of units responsible for monitoring and evaluation; developing results framework aligned to the
EDS; improving the design and operation of the monitoring process and system and improving
the reporting to stakeholders and the use of data towards evidence based decision making.
D. Project location (if known)
Kyrgyz Republic
E. Borrower’s Institutional Capacity for Safeguard Policies [from PCN]
N/A
F. Environmental and Social Safeguards Specialists
II. SAFEGUARD POLICIES THAT MIGHT APPLY
Safeguard Policies Triggered
Environmental Assessment (OP/BP 4.01)
Natural Habitats (OP/BP 4.04)
Forests (OP/BP 4.36)
Pest Management (OP 4.09)
Physical Cultural Resources (OP/BP 4.11)
Indigenous Peoples (OP/BP 4.10)
Involuntary Resettlement (OP/BP 4.12)
Safety of Dams (OP/BP 4.37)
Projects on International Waterways (OP/BP 7.50)
Projects in Disputed Areas (OP/BP 7.60)
Yes
No
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
TBD
Environmental Category: C - Not Required
III. SAFEGUARD PREPARATION PLAN
A. Target date for the Quality Enhancement Review (QER), at which time the PAD-stage ISDS
would be prepared: N/A
B. For projects that will not require a QER, the target date for preparing the PAD-stage ISDS:
02/14/2012
C. Time frame for launching and completing the safeguard-related studies that may be needed.
The specific studies and their timing1 should be specified in the PAD-stage ISDS.
n/a
IV. APPROVALS
Signed and submitted by:
Task Team Leader:
Mr Dingyong Hou
Approved by:
Regional Safeguards Coordinator:
Mr Frederick Edmund Brusberg
Comments: Acting for Agi Kiss, ECA Safeguards Coordinator
Sector Manager:
Mr Alberto Rodriguez
Comments:
1
02/17/2011
03/09/2011
03/17/2011
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