Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) SOUTH ASIA | Bangladesh | Education Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Specific Investment Loan | FY 2009 | Seq No: 16 | ARCHIVED on 29-Nov-2016 | ISR25717 | Implementing Agencies: Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, MOE Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:31-Jul-2008 Effectiveness Date:04-Sep-2008 Planned Mid Term Review Date:12-Jul-2011 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:12-Jul-2011 Original Closing Date:30-Jun-2014 Revised Closing Date:31-Dec-2017 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The project development objectives are to improve the quality of secondary education, systematically monitor learning outcomes, and to increase access and equity in project upazilas. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Improving Education Quality and Monitoring Learning Levels:(Cost $33.10 M) Improving Equity and Access:(Cost $106.70 M) Institutional Capacity Strengthening:(Cost $9.90 M) Monitoring and Evaluation:(Cost $1.70 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating  Substantial  Substantial 11/29/2016 Page 1 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Implementation Status and Key Decisions 1. Bangladesh Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement Project (SEQAEP, 2008-2017) is implemented under the Ministry of Education (MOE), with IDA financing of US$396 million. The project currently supports approximately 4.8 million students in grades 6-10 in 11,843 secondary schools and madrasahs from 250 Upazilas (sub-districts) in the country. The project aims to enhance quality and equitable access through provision of poverty-targeted (based on Proxy Means Testing (PMT) methodology) stipends to students, and quality-enhancing incentive grants to schools, teachers and students in project schools. 2. Project Development Objective (PDO) is Satisfactory given that project is on track to achieve the end of project targets for all six project key performance indicators (KPIs) - cycle completion rate, number of students appearing in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations, monitoring learning levels, gender parity (as measured by male to female ratio), percentage of poor children in total enrolment and total number of project beneficiaries.. The updated intermediate outcome indicators (IOs) have either been met or have surpassed the end-of-year targets. 3. Implementation Progress (IP): SEQAEP IP continues to be Satisfactory in view of the following achievements: (a) completed disbursement of PMT stipends to 1.81 million students for first semester (January-June) of Academic Year (AY) 2016 (1.67 million in 215 upazilas and 0.14 million in 35 upazilas) and advanced progress made towards disbursement of stipends to PMT beneficiary students for second semester (July- December) of AY2016; (b) provision of best student awards (top-ranked boys and girls in each grade) to 107,973 students from project schools; (c) provision of some 238,217 remedial classes in 2016 through 3,265 Additional Class Teachers (ACT) in English, Mathematics and Science in 1400 project schools; (d) timely implementation of Developing the Reading Habit (DRH) sub-component activities benefiting 2.03 million student readers in most of the project schools (11,806) in 2016; (e) timely achievement of DLIs in the previous years and substantial progress in the achievement of Year-3 (2016) DLI; (f) timely implementation of M&E activities including, Annual School Census, PMT validation and compliance monitoring, Learning Assessment of Secondary Institutions (LASI 2015) and substantial progress in impact evaluation for 2016. 4. Successor Program: The World Bank, along with ADB, are supporting the Government prepare a Harmonized Secondary Education sector program to be implemented from January 2018. The World Bank Operation is clustered around three priority results areas: (i) Improved quality and relevance of secondary education; (ii) Improved equitable access to and retention in secondary education; and (iii) Strengthened education system, sector planning, management and governance. In addition, there would be a separate Technical Assistance (TA) component using the Investment Project Financing (IPF) instrument for Program management, monitoring and evaluation support. Joint identification mission was successfully completed in October 2016 and a preparation mission is planned for December 2016. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  Substantial  Substantial 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  --  Substantial  Substantial Environment and Social  --  Moderate  Moderate Stakeholders  --  Low  Low Other  --  --  -- Overall  --  Substantial  Substantial Results 11/29/2016 Page 2 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL  Completion Rate in Grade 10 (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 20.00 34.00 34.00 33.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Percent of Grade 6 entrants who have passed SSC exam (Percentage, Custom Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 28.00 52.00 56.00 50.00 PHINDPDOTBL  Number of Students appearing in SSC exams in project areas ('000) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 187.00 388.00 500.45 485.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Number of Poor students appearing in SSC exams in project areas ('000) (Number, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 98.00 205.90 160.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Monitor Learning Levels in Secondary Schools (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 11/29/2016 Page 3 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Value N Y Y Y Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 Comments 2015 Learning Assessment in Secondary Institutions was administered in late 2015 and results were disseminated in 2016. This was the third round of learning assessment in the project, the first two were in the project areas the third round was carried out on the national sample. PHINDPDOTBL  Gender Parity Ratio (male-female) in Grade 6-10 enrolment in project areas (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.82 0.91 0.90 0.92 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Share of poor children in total secondary enrolment in project areas (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 30.00 41.00 41.00 41.00 Date 30-Nov-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 2200000.00 3984000.00 4082949.00 3663000.00 Date 31-Dec-2012 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Core Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target 11/29/2016 Page 4 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Value 54.00 52.00 53.00 53.00 Overall Comments Project areas refers to 215 upazilas for the indicators in the results section. Intermediate Results Indicators PHINDIRITBL  Number of SSC Pass awardees among PMT Beneficiaries (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 342000.00 490000.00 500000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDIRITBL  Number of additional classes in English and Mathematics (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 2125000.00 2333000.00 4500000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDIRITBL  Number of eligible poor girls and boys receiving PMT stipends (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 5000000.00 6721000.00 5400000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2015 31-Dec-2017 11/29/2016 Page 5 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) PHINDIRITBL  Proportion of project schools with functional PTA (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 1.00 46.00 86.00 50.00 Date 31-Dec-2012 21-Sep-2015 30-Sep-2016 31-Dec-2017 Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P106161 IDA-44750 Closed XDR 80.30 80.16 0.14 80.16 0.00 100% P106161 IDA-53250 Effective XDR 172.80 172.80 0.00 117.32 55.48 68% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P106161 IDA-44750 Closed 31-Jul-2008 14-Aug-2008 04-Sep-2008 30-Jun-2014 30-Jun-2014 P106161 IDA-53250 Effective 03-Dec-2013 26-Feb-2014 25-Mar-2014 31-Dec-2017 31-Dec-2017 Cumulative Disbursements 11/29/2016 Page 6 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Bangladesh - Secondary Education Quality and Access Improvement (P106161) Restructuring History Level Approved on 27-Dec-2011 ,Level 2 Approved on 26-May-2013 ,Level 2 Approved on 16-May-2016 Related Project(s) P146255-Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project - AF 11/29/2016 Page 7 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy