The World Bank Okays 47.9 million $ grant for Punjab

• The grant is expected to improve learning outcomes at the primary level: WB.
• Initiative aims to benefit 80.000 children outside the school in the province.
• It will also enhance efforts to improve education in the field of education.
  

ISLAMABAD: World Bank (WB) approved a grant of $ 47.9 million for Pakistan, funded by the global partnership for education, to help improve girls and boys’ participation in pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-pre-portal and primary levels.

“The new support is expected to improve learning outcomes at the primary level and enhance the support of rehabilitation on the elementary level of school studies,” the WB said in a statement.

“Downloading results: Access and deliver quality educational services and transformation of the system to Punjab’s work”, he said, will expand early childhood training, re -examine children out of school, enhance teachers’ support and improve the response in the field of education.

By contributing to the stronger human capital and the improvement of disorders, the project aims at the needs of the poorer and more vulnerable populations, according to the twin goals of the World Bank to eliminate extreme poverty and promote its commonplace.

“This project is a crucial step towards tackling learning poverty and ensuring fair access to quality education throughout Punjab,” the WB director for Pakistan Bolorma Amgaabazar said.

By enhancing fundamental learning, enhancing the capacity of the system and promoting change of behavior, he said the project would support long -term development of human capital and economic development in the province.

The project aims to benefit more than four million children, including 80,000 children outside of school, more than three million children in school education schools (SED), about 850,000 children in the non -formal sector and 140,000 different children in SPED schools (SPED).

In addition, over 100,000 teachers and leaders of the schools, as well as the parents and members of the community, will benefit from professional development and awareness campaigns.

Indirect beneficiaries include all students on SED, SPED and non -formal schools that will win from wider system reforms.

“The project is in line with the government of the broader Punjab reform program, which seeks to create a more effective, responsible and exclusive education system,” said the WB team leader for the project Izza Farrakh.

“He will do so by supporting the government’s efforts to improve government, management and education.