PROJECT INFORMATION DOCUMENT (PID) ADDITIONAL FINANCING Report No.: PIDA11164 Project Name AF GPE to Haiti Education for All Project - Phase II (P132756) Parent Project Name Haiti - Education for All Project - Phase II (P124134) Region LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN Country Haiti Sector(s) Primary education (100%) Theme(s) Education for all (82%), Nutrition and food security (11%), Rural services and infrastructure (7%) Lending Instrument Specific Investment Loan Project ID P132756 Parent Project ID P124134 Borrower(s) Republic of Haiti Implementing Agency Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) Environmental Category B-Partial Assessment Date PID Prepared/Updated 26-Jul-2014 Date PID Approved/Disclosed 29-Jul-2014 Estimated Date of Appraisal 28-Feb-2014 Completion Estimated Date of First Grant 15-Sep-2014 Approval Decision I. Project Context Country Context Haiti is a country which has been negatively affected by political instability, external shocks, and a high vulnerability to natural disasters. Over the last 20 years, Haiti has been struck by 60 natural disasters affecting about 6 million people and causing almost US$9 billion in damages. These include the January 2010 earthquake, which caused an estimated 230,000 deaths including one out of three civil servants, and damages and losses representing 120 percent of the country’s 2009 GDP. In October 2010, a cholera epidemic struck the country and killed around 400,000 people. Repetitive disasters have exacerbated the difficult economic and social situation in the country and reduced the public administration capacity to respond to the need for basic social services. Haiti ranks 148th of 172 countries on the Human Development Index. The country has recovered remarkably from the 2010 disasters, rubble has been cleared, the number of displaced people has been reduced drastically (from 1.5million to 170,000) and sustained efforts have been made to combat and contain cholera. Page 1 of 5 Sectoral and institutional Context Since parent Project effectiveness, GoH priorities have been revised and focused in a three-year Transitional Sector Plan (Programme d’Interventions Prioritaires en Education – PIPE) - based on its five-year Strategy for Rebuilding the Education System - which was endorsed by the local education development partner group in early January 2014. Education continues to be a stated top priority of the GoH, although its priorities and strategic approaches within the sector have changed. The PIPE reduces the ambitious US$2.3 billion financing gap in the five-year strategy to US$260 million, with revised targets and prioritized activities. Among the key PIPE priorities is a continued focus on interventions in line with the GoH’s universal, free and compulsory primary education policy (Programme de Scolarisation Universelle, Gratuite et Obligatoire – PSUGO), including the continued financing of tuition waivers for non-public schools. However, key priorities newly emphasized include: (i) a planned expansion of the National School Feeding Program, from about a third of Grade 1-6 students receiving SHN services in 2010-11, to 40 percent then 70 percent in 2014-15 and 2020-21, respectively; a capacity strengthening program for the National School Feeding Program (Programme National de Cantines Scolaires - PNCS); (ii) improving internal efficiency and retention through, inter alia, automatic promotion in select grades combined with primary curriculum revision, in-service teacher training and a support program for students not achieving the minimum academic performance to proceed to the next grade; and (iii) institutional strengthening including strengthening public-private partnerships through the establishment of an improved accreditation system for non-public primary schools. II. Proposed Development Objectives A. Current Project Development Objectives – Parent The objective of the Project is to support: (i) enrollment of students in select non-public primary schools in disadvantaged areas;(ii) student attendance in select public and non-public primary schools in disadvantaged areas; and (iii) strengthened management of the Recipient’s primary education sector. III. Project Description Component Name Support to Primary Education Enrollment Comments (optional) Component Name Support to Improved Student Attendance Comments (optional) Component Name Strengthening Sector Management Comments (optional) Page 2 of 5 Component Name Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation Comments (optional) IV. Financing (in USD Million) Total Project Cost: 24.10 Total Bank Financing: 0.00 Financing Gap: 0.00 For Loans/Credits/Others Amount Borrower 0.00 Education for All Supervising Entity 24.10 Total 24.10 V. Implementation The parent Project is rated Moderately Satisfactory on both IP and progress toward achievement of the PDO, and has been consistently rated satisfactory or moderately satisfactory over the past 12 months. The main achievements in the original Project by component are as follows: Under Component 1, to date, the Project has surpassed expectations with respect to improvements in enrollment: it has delivered timely tuition waivers to about 150,000 and 162,000 primary students in seven departments in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years, respectively. It has also ensured the provision of three textbooks per student in about 90 percent of schools participating in the IDA-financed non-public school TWP. Under the community-based school sub-component, 63 communities have received training, continue to receive grants, and are operating schools under temporary shelter; of these, ten schools are under construction, including two schools which are expected to be completed by end August 2014, and six expected to be completed by end October 2014. Under Component 2, the Accelerated Teacher Training Program (Formation Initiale Accélérée – FIA) has certified 2,669 teachers to date. The Project-financed third FIA cohort is the most recent cohort recruited; these student-teachers are still in training and are expected to graduate by September 2015. Given high numbers of FIA-certified teachers who are not yet hired into the teaching profession, the MENFP and Bank are continuing a dialogue on measures to improve the uptake of FIA-certified teachers into the profession. The GoH also adopted in May 2014 a new statute regulating the teaching profession, which compels teachers who wish to remain in the profession to have or obtain a teaching license. The Project is also developing Teacher’s Guides with daily lesson plans for use in the classroom. The structured reading instruction approach M Ap Li Net Ale has been adapted for implementation under the Project, and firms are being recruited for its implementation and impact evaluation in selected TWP school; its implementation is expected to launch during the 214-15 school year. The SHN Program has surpassed targets, providing deworming, micronutrients, and a morning snack and hot meal during school days to about 81,000 students in public and non-public schools in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years. Under Component 3, project-based budget agreements between the MENFP and decentralized regional units (Direction Départementale de l’Education – DDE) are under preparation, and would Page 3 of 5 allow the Project to finance DDEs to supervise and provide support to schools. These agreements are expected to be completed by the end of August 2014, and will be piloted in three DDEs in 2014. With respect to the strengthening of the licensing system, the MENFP has announced the transition to a decentralized and computerized non-public school licensing system; this announcement is a pre- requisite for implementation of the licensing-related parent Project interventions. VI. Safeguard Policies (including public consultation) Safeguard Policies Triggered by the Project Yes No 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 ✖ Comments (optional) VII. Contact point World Bank Contact: Patrick Philippe Ramanant Title: Senior Operations Officer Tel: 473-6999 Email: pramanantoanina@worldbank.org Borrower/Client/Recipient Name: Republic of Haiti Contact: Fritz Gerlad Louis Title: Focal Point Tel: 50934045656 Email: fgerald07@yahoo.fr Implementing Agencies Name: Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP) Contact: Creutzer Mathurin Title: Chief of Staff Tel: (509) 3754-5106 Email: creutzerm@hotmail.com Page 4 of 5 VIII. 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