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Ghana's Education Project Overview

1. The World Bank proposes financial, advisory, and technical services to help countries identify development priorities and reach goals through a multi-step project cycle including identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation, and evaluation. 2. Key steps include identifying projects, conducting studies and preparing documentation, assessing projects, approving projects, implementing projects through contracting and supervision, and evaluating outcomes against original objectives. 3. The project cycle is iterative as learning from experience allows for new projects to be conceived to overcome challenges and pursue sustainable development.

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Ghana's Education Project Overview

1. The World Bank proposes financial, advisory, and technical services to help countries identify development priorities and reach goals through a multi-step project cycle including identification, preparation, appraisal, implementation, and evaluation. 2. Key steps include identifying projects, conducting studies and preparing documentation, assessing projects, approving projects, implementing projects through contracting and supervision, and evaluating outcomes against original objectives. 3. The project cycle is iterative as learning from experience allows for new projects to be conceived to overcome challenges and pursue sustainable development.

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1. Country Assistance Strategy 2.

Identification
The World Bank proposes financial, advisory and technical Ideas for creating meaningful change are discussed. Borrower
services to help countries identify their priorities and reach and Bank representatives weigh development objectives and
their main development goals. project impacts, risks, alternatives and timetable.

6. Evaluation 3. Preparation, Appraisal


Country and Board Approval
After a Borrower completes a project, Assistance Identification
the Bank's Independent Evaluation Strategy With advice and financial assistance
Group (IEG) measures the outcomes from the Bank, the Borrower conducts
against original objectives and
assesses whether or not the
1 2 Preparation,
studies and prepares detailed project
documentation. The Bank assesses
Appraisal
project’s results can be maintained
over the long term. A number of
Evaluation 6 3 and Board
the economic, technical, institutional,
financial, environmental and social
Approval
projects are further scrutinized in
detailed impact evaluation reports.
5 4 aspects of the project. When the
Bank and the Borrower agree on the
terms of a loan or credit, the project is
Implementation Implementation
and Completion and Supervision presented to the Bank’s Board of
Executive Directors for approval.

5. Implementation and Completion 4. Implementation and Supervision


At the end of the loan or credit disbursement period The Borrower implements the project, issuing contracts
(anywhere from 1-10 years), a completion report identifying through a competitive bidding process that follows the Bank's
project results, problems and lessons learned is submitted procurement guidelines. World Bank staff periodically
by operations staff to the Bank's Board of Executive supervises the project to make sure that the loan proceeds are
Directors for information purposes. used for intended purposes and with due regard for economy,
efficiency and effectiveness.

1. In the mid 1990s, Ghana’s poverty 2. The Basic Education Sector 3. A $50 million credit to Ghana from
reduction strategy included improving Improvement Project (1996-2002) was IDA, the Bank’s fund for the world’s
education to strengthen people’s ability designed to support the government’s poorest countries, was approved by
to gain employment. policy of free, compulsory, universal basic the Board in June 1996.
education. To improve enrollment and
learning outcomes in Ghana, the project
focused not only on improving schools,
classrooms, teacher training and
textbooks but also on establishing an
innovative information system that would
help track school data more effectively.

4. In April 1999, at the mid-term 5. Increased teacher training and 6. The project cycle resumes...
review, Ghana’s Basic Education availability of textbooks helped improve Learning from experience and adapting
project was restructured to limit its English and math test scores. The new to change, Borrowing governments and
scope due to weak administrative and information system was an important World Bank development experts
financial management capacity. Once first step in the education sector’s conceive new projects to overcome
the project became more manageable, long-term overhaul. But the project’s poverty and pursue inclusive and
the government achieved the desired overly ambitious design and weak donor sustainable growth.
outcomes: a new Education coordination led to implementation
Management Information System was difficulties and delays.
established; 11 million textbooks were
printed and distributed; 2,300
classrooms rehabilitated and 151
primary and secondary schools built.

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