The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Moldova | Education Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2013 | Seq No: 12 | ARCHIVED on 14-Dec-2018 | ISR32096 | Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Education, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Finance, Moldova Social Investment Fund (MSIF) Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 24-Jan-2013 Effectiveness Date: 01-Jul-2013 Planned Mid Term Review Date: 14-Mar-2016 Actual Mid-Term Review Date: 14-Mar-2016 Original Closing Date: 31-Aug-2018 Revised Closing Date: 30-Jun-2020 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to strengthen the quality of education while supporting the efficiency reforms being implemented in the education sector. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? Yes Board Approved Revised Project Development Objective (If project is formally restructured) The Project Development Objective is to improve learning conditions in targeted schools and strengthen the Recipient's education monitoring systems, while promoting efficiency reforms in the education sector. Components Table Name Component 1: Strengthening the Quality of Education:(Cost $39.78 M) Component 2: Improving the Efficiency of the Education Sector:(Cost $8.16 M) Component 3: Improving the MoE's Capacity to Monitor the Reform:(Cost $2.06 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions This ISR reports on the project supervision visit carried out between September 24 and 28, 2018. During this supervision visit, the World Bank task team assessed the progress towards the achievement of the Project Development Objectives, as well as the progress with the implementation of each component. This assessment showed some shortcomings related mostly to the implementation of the project component that supports the 12/14/2018 Page 1 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) renovation of 17 schools. These shortcomings, namely the delays with the development of drawings/designs, require special attention from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (MoECR) in the next four months. By the end of this period, the World Bank and MoECR should make a decision on the extension of the Project Closing Date based on the progress with the implementation of the component in reference. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- High High Macroeconomic -- Substantial Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies -- Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program -- Moderate Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Substantial Substantial Fiduciary -- Moderate Moderate Environment and Social -- Moderate Moderate Stakeholders -- Moderate Moderate Other -- -- -- Overall -- Moderate Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Improve learning conditions in targeted receiving schools IN00583766 ►Total receiving schools that meet infrastructure requirements under national quality assurance standards (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 17.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583769 ►Trained teachers demonstrating a defined minimum level of competency for objectives covered in training program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 50.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 12/14/2018 Page 2 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Strengthen the Recipient’s education monitoring systems IN00583770 ►School report cards with comparative data on school performance (2014-2018) publicly disseminated (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 Promoting efficiency reforms in the education sector IN00583773 ►Student-teacher ratio for Grades 1-12 of primary and general secondary education (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 10.85:1 11.89:1 11.89:1 11.85:1 Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 Intermediate Results Indicators by Components Component 1 - Strengthening the Quality of Education IN00583767 ►New minimum quality assurance standards formally adopted by MOE (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No Yes Yes Yes Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 IN00583768 ►Additional receiving schools that meet infrastructure requirements under national quality assurance standards financed by the national budget (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 6.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 31-Aug-2018 Works underway and expected to be completed by December 2018. Comments: IN00583772 ►Updated training program for school directors and teachers officially approved and implementation initiated (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Work plan to update Work plan to update Updated program Existing program for the existing system for the existing system for approved in November training of school training of school training of school Value 2016 and implementation directors and teachers to directors and teachers directors and teachers initiated in December be updated approved and pilot approved and pilot 2016. training completed. training completed 12/14/2018 Page 3 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 IN00583774 ►School managers trained under the revised training program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 27.96 27.96 50.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583792 School managers trained in gender awareness (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 20.00 IN00583775 ►Number of additional qualified primary teachers resulting from project interventions. (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 627.00 627.00 800.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583776 ►Primary and general secondary teachers trained under the revised training program (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 10.46 10.46 20.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583793 Primary and general secondary teachers trained in gender awareness (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10.00 IN00583777 ►Support staff and psycho-pedagogues trained on in-depth skills in special education (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 450.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583778 ►Targeted schools equipped with new science labs and technology equipment (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 160.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583779 ►Targeted schools equipped with teaching/learning materials for students with disabilities and/or special educational needs (Number, Custom) 12/14/2018 Page 4 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583781 ►National School Inspectorate Staff Trained (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 300.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 The National School Inspectorate has been reorganized and its successor is National Agency for Quality Comments: Assurance in Education and Research. IN00583780 ►System for learning assessment at the primary level (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value Yes Yes Yes Yes Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 IN00583794 Utility of the learning assessment system (Number, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 4.00 4.00 4.00 4.00 IN00583782 ►Administration of revised national testing of all 4th grade students completed (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target All 4th grade students All 4th grade students All 4th grade students Existing national tests tested in Romanian tested in Romanian tested in Romanian Value and scoring guidelines language and Math language and Math language and Math for all 4th grade based on revised based on revised based on revised national testing national testing national testing Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 31-Aug-2018 IN00583783 ►Administration of revised national testing of all 9th grade students completed (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target All 9th grade students All 9th grade students All 9th grade students Existing national tests tested in Romanian tested in Romanian tested in Romanian Value and scoring guidelines language and Math language and Math language and Math for all 9th grade students based on revised based on revised based on revised national testing national testing national testing Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 31-Aug-2018 IN00583784 ►Report analyzing results of national assessments publicly disseminated (Amount(USD), Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 12/14/2018 Page 5 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Value 0.00 1.00 1.00 3.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 IN00583785 ►Report analyzing Moldova's performance in PISA 2015 and PISA 2018 publicly disseminated (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target PISA 2015 and PISA PISA 2015 publicly Report on PISA 2015 Value No report 2018 reports publicly disseminated publicly disseminated disseminated Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583786 ►Consolidated Education Management Information System (EMIS) covering pre-university education in place (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target EMIS covering primary EMIS covering primary and general secondary and general secondary education in place and education in place and functional. Preschool Consolidated EMIS Existing school mapping Value functional. Preschool module developed but including preschool system module developed but not yet fully and VET education not yet rolled out. VET operational. VET module to be developed. module to be developed. Date 04-Dec-2012 19-Feb-2018 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 Component 2 - Improving the Efficiency of the Education Sector IN00583789 ►Total classes reorganized in primary and general secondary schools (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2,840.00 2,840.00 980.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 IN00583788 ►Primary and general secondary schools that have their budgets approved according to the new per student formula (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 38.00 100.00 100.00 80.00 Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 28-Jun-2019 Component 3 - Improving the Ministry’s Capacity to Monitor the Reform IN00583787 ►System in place to closely monitor and mitigate drop outs in primary and general secondary schools (using EMIS) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target No system in place to Dropout rates are Dropout rates are Value monitor and mitigate System in place determined using data determined using data dropouts disaggregated at the disaggregated at the 12/14/2018 Page 6 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) level of schools and level of schools and used in policy making used in policy making Date 04-Dec-2012 01-Nov-2017 26-Nov-2018 31-Aug-2018 IN00583790 ►Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 98,450.00 Date 06-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583795 Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 49,000.00 IN00583771 ►Beneficiaries of rehabilitated schools who feel their concerns were considered in the planning and implementation process (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 70.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 IN00583791 ►Schools where parents report that information, community engagement, and school responsiveness has improved (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 70.00 Date 14-Sep-2017 -- 26-Nov-2018 30-Jun-2020 Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed P127388 IDA-51960 Effective USD 40.00 40.00 0.00 25.21 11.73 68% P127388 IDA-61810 Effective USD 10.00 10.00 0.00 0.00 9.94 0% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P127388 IDA-51960 Effective 24-Jan-2013 07-Feb-2013 01-Jul-2013 31-Aug-2018 30-Jun-2020 P127388 IDA-61810 Effective 16-Feb-2018 12-Mar-2018 19-Jul-2018 30-Jun-2020 30-Jun-2020 12/14/2018 Page 7 of 8 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Moldova Education Reform Project (P127388) Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 1 Approved on 30-Jun-2015 ,Level 1 Approved on 06-Feb-2017 ,Level 2 Approved on 21-Sep-2017 Related Project(s) P156657-Moldova Education Reform Additional Financing 12/14/2018 Page 8 of 8