Expression of Interest for Consulting Services to Review and Revise Ministry of Education s Existing Textbook Management Guidelines

Consulting Services to Review and Revise Ministry of Education s Existing Textbook Management GuidelinesImproving Results in Secondary Education IRISE ProjectOne of the interventions under the project is to promote alignment linkages between curriculum textbooks and assessment systems and address the severe shortage of Teaching and Learning Materials TLMs in public and community schools at the senior secondary levels 2 Background2 1 Project s development objective PDO is to improve equitable access to and quality of secondary education and provide a response to the COVID 19 pandemic It will be achieved through a set of activities that are grouped into the five components Improving access and learning environment at the senior secondary level Increasing opportunities for girls to transition to and complete senior secondary education Improving quality and relevance of senior secondary education Capacity building Technical Assistance project coordination and M E and Contingency Emergency Response Component 2 2 The progress towards the achievement of the PDO will be monitored through the following key indicators GER at the senior secondary level percentage and percentage female Increased percentage of public and community senior secondary schools with a qualified teacher each in Math Science and English Number of direct project beneficiaries number of females andStudents perception about the adequacy of the conditions of their schools to avoid the spread of COVID 19 2 3 The Project employs a hybrid funding approach including the financing of inputs for interventions supported under Components 1 4 and 5 and a results based financing RBF modality with disbursement linked indicators DLIs for Components 2 and 3 Disbursements under Components 2 and 3 is conditioned on the achievement of specified results as measured by DLIs Such approach reflects a shift from an emphasis on inputs to focusing on incentivizing the achievement of results 2 4 Sub component 3 2 aims to i promote alignment linkages between curriculum textbooks and assessment systems and ii address the severe shortage of learning materials in public and community schools at the senior secondary level by a reviewing and revising existing MoE textbook management guidelines b identifying and adapting existing textbooks and learning materials to the national curriculum at the senior secondary level in select subjects Mathematics English Biology Chemistry and Physics and c procuring and distributing newly adapted textbooks 2 5 To ensure the effective implementation of sub component 3 2 and in accordance with the IRISE Financing Agreement and Project Appraisal Document the MoE constituted a Technical Working Group TWG and outlined its mandate to support the full implementation of sub component 3 2

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