(2018) Haiti - Education for All Project - Phase II
Summary — The Haiti Education for All Project - Phase II aimed to support the rebuilding of the education system in Haiti. It focused on improving access to primary education, enhancing the quality of education, and strengthening institutional capacity within the education sector, particularly in disadvantaged areas.
Key Findings
- The project financed a cumulative total of 482,932 tuition waivers, with the TWP enrolling over 135,000 students in nonpublic primary schools in its peak year.
- 57 community-based schools were opened and functioned, enrolling about 6,500 students per year.
- The project certified a total of 3,570 teachers from all regions of the country.
- The M’Ap Li Net Ale approach benefited about 26,718 students in 299 schools, showing substantial average improvement in foundational reading skills.
Full Description
The Haiti Education for All Project - Phase II was designed to support the strategy for rebuilding the education system in Haiti. The project aimed to improve access to primary education, particularly for underserved populations, enhance the quality of primary education through teacher training and improved reading instruction, and strengthen institutional capacity within the Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (MENFP). The project included components such as tuition waivers for non-public schools, support for community-based schools, school health and nutrition programs, and modernization of the MENFP's management and monitoring capabilities. Several restructurings occurred during the project's lifetime to adapt to changing priorities and challenges, including the impact of Hurricane Matthew.
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The World Bank
FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
Report No: ICR00004083
IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION AND RESULTS REPORT
IDA‐H7400, TF‐17830, TF‐17666
ON A
GRANT
IN THE AMOUNT OF SDR 43.50 MILLION
(US$70.00 MILLION EQUIVALENT)
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
US$14.75 MILLION
FROM THE HAITI RECONSTRUCTION FUND
AND
US$24.10 MILLION
FROM THE GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION
TO THE
REPUBLIC OF HAITI
FOR THE
Haiti ‐ Education for All Project ‐ Phase II
December 28, 2018
Education Global Practice
Latin America And Caribbean Region
Public Disclosure Authorized
Public Disclosure Authorized
Public Disclosure Authorized
Public Disclosure Authorized
CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS
(Exchange Rate Effective Jun 30, 2018)
Currency = Haitian Gourdes
HTG 66.58 = US$1
US$1.41 = SDR 1
FISCAL YEAR
July 1 ‐ June 30
Regional Vice President:Jorge Familiar
Country Director:Anabela Abreu
Senior Global Practice Director:Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi
Practice Manager:Reema Nayar
Task Team Leader(s):Yves Jantzem, Elena Maria Roseo
ICR Main Contributor:Axelle Latortue
ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
AF Additional Financing
BP Bank Procedures
CPF Country Partnership Framework
DDE Departmental Directorates of Education (Directions Départementales de l’Education)
ECVMAS Enquête sur les Conditions de Vie des Ménages Après Séisme
EFA 1 Education for All Program First Phase
EFA 2 Education for All Program Second Phase
EFA‐FTI Education for All Fast‐Track Initiative
EGMA Early Grade Mathematics Assessment
EGRA Early Grade Reading Assessment
ESMF Environmental and Social Management Framework
FCV Fragility, Conflict and Violence
FIA Accelerated pre‐service teacher training program (Formation Initiale Accélérée)
FM Financial management
FNE National Fund for Education (Fonds National pour l’Education)
GDP Gross Domestic Product
GPE Global Partnership for Education
HRF Haiti Reconstruction Fund
ICR Implementation Completion and Results Report
IDA International Development Association
IFR Interim Financial Report
IRI Intermediate Results Indicator
IRR Internal Rate of Return
ISN Interim Strategy Note
ISR Implementation Status and Results Report
M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
MENFP Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (Ministère de l’Education Nationale
et de la Formation Professionnelle)
NGO Nongovernmental Organization
ONAPE National Education Partnership Office (Office National de Partenariat en Education)
OP Operational Policies
OPCS Operational Policy and Country Services
OPE Operational Plan for Education
PAD Project Appraisal Document
PDO Project Development Objective
PEQH Providing an Education of Quality in Haiti
PIPE Transitional Education Sector Plan (Programme d’Interventions Prioritaires en Education)
PIU Project Implementation Unit
PNCS National School Feeding Program (Programme National de Cantine Scolaire)
PPF Project Preparation Facility
PSUGO Universal, Free and Mandatory Schooling Program (Programme de Scolarisation Universelle,
Gratuite et Obligatoire)
QAS Quality Assurance System
RAP Resettlement Action Plan
RPF Resettlement Policy Framework SHN School Health and Nutrition
SMC School Management Committee
TWP Tuition Waiver Program
UPE Universal Primary Education (Éducation Primaire Universelle)
USAID U.S. Agency for International Development
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DATA SHEET
I. PROJECT CONTEXT AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES ............................................................. 6
A. CONTEXT AT APPRAISAL ........................................................................................................... 6
B. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES DURING IMPLEMENTATION ............................................................... 11
II. OUTCOME ................................................................................................................................. 19
A. RELEVANCE OF PDOs .............................................................................................................. 19
C. EFFICIENCY ............................................................................................................................. 27
D. JUSTIFICATION OF OVERALL OUTCOME RATING ..................................................................... 29
E. OTHER OUTCOMES AND IMPACTS .......................................................................................... 29
III. KEY FACTORS THAT AFFECTED IMPLEMENTATION AND OUTCOME .................................... 30
A. KEY FACTORS DURING PREPARATION..................................................................................... 30
B. KEY FACTORS DURING IMPLEMENTATION .............................................................................. 31
IV. BANK PERFORMANCE, COMPLIANCE ISSUES, AND RISK TO DEVELOPMENT OUTCOME ... 33
A. QUALITY OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E) ............................................................. 33
B. ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND FIDUCIARY COMPLIANCE ..................................................... 34
C. BANK PERFORMANCE ............................................................................................................. 37
D. RISK TO DEVELOPMENT OUTCOME ........................................................................................ 38
V. LESSONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..................................................................................... 39
ANNEX 1. RESULTS FRAMEWORK AND KEY OUTPUTS ................................................................. 41
ANNEX 2. BANK LENDING AND IMPLEMENTATION SUPPORT/SUPERVISION ............................ 57
ANNEX 3. PROJECT COST BY COMPONENT ................................................................................... 59
ANNEX 4. EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 60
ANNEX 5. SUMMARY OF BORROWER’S COMPLETION REPORT .................................................. 63
ANNEX 6. SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS ........................................................................................... 64
ANNEX 7. ACTIVE WORLD BANK‐FINANCED PROJECTS DURING EFA 2 APPRAISAL ................... 66
ANNEX 8. RESULTS FRAMEWORK: ORIGINAL AND OFFICIAL REVISIONS .................................... 67
ANNEX 9. DETAILED RESULTS FRAMEWORK VALUES ................................................................... 88
ANNEX 10. DETAILED COMPONENT CHANGES ............................................................................. 99
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DATA SHEET
BASIC INFORMATION
Product Information
Project ID Project Name
P124134 Haiti ‐ Education for All Project ‐ Phase II
Country Financing Instrument
Haiti Investment Project Financing
Original EA Category Revised EA Category
Partial Assessment (B) Partial Assessment (B)
Related Projects
Relationship Project Approval Product Line
Supplement P132756‐AF GPE to
Haiti Education for All
Project ‐ Phase II
29‐Jun‐2013 Recipient Executed Activities
Additional Financing P147608‐AF for Haiti
Education for All
Project Phase II
25‐Jun‐2014 IBRD/IDA
Organizations
Borrower Implementing Agency
Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances
Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Formation
Professionnelle, Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de
la Formation Professionnelle
Project Development Objective (PDO)
Original PDO
The objective of the Project is to support the Strategy for Rebuilding the Education System through the
implementation ofsustainable programs to improve: (a) access, particularly of under‐served populations, to Primary
Education; (b) quality of PrimaryEducation; and (c) the institutional capacity in the Recipient's education sector.
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Revised PDO
The objective of the Project is to support: (i) enrollment of students in select non‐public primary schools
indisadvantagedareas;(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.
FINANCING
Original Amount (US$) Revised Amount (US$) Actual Disbursed (US$)
World Bank Financing
IDA‐H7400
70,000,000 69,998,058 64,359,542
TF‐17666
14,750,000 14,750,000 14,750,000
TF‐17830
24,100,000 24,100,000 24,100,000
Total 108,850,000 108,848,058 103,209,542
Non‐World Bank Financing
Borrower/Recipient 0 0 0
Total 0 0 0
Total Project Cost 108,850,000 108,848,058 103,209,542
KEY DATES
Approval Effectiveness MTR Review Original Closing Actual Closing
01‐Dec‐2011 03‐Apr‐2012 20‐Jan‐2015 30‐Jun‐2015 30‐Jun‐2018
29‐Jun‐2013 30‐Jun‐2018
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RESTRUCTURING AND/OR ADDITIONAL FINANCING
Date(s) Amount Disbursed (US$M) Key Revisions
22‐Aug‐2012 6.90 Reallocation between Disbursement Categories
04‐Jun‐2014 38.59 Additional Financing
Change in Project Development Objectives
Change in Results Framework
Change in Loan Closing Date(s)
Reallocation between Disbursement Categories
Change in Safeguard Policies Triggered
Change in Legal Covenants
Change in Institutional Arrangements
Change in Implementation Schedule
10‐Oct‐2014 47.01 Additional Financing
Change in Results Framework
Change in Components and Cost
Change in Loan Closing Date(s)
Change in Legal Covenants
Change in Institutional Arrangements
Change in Implementation Schedule
20‐May‐2015 47.01 Change in Results Framework
Reallocation between Disbursement Categories
Other Change(s)
08‐Aug‐2016 56.42 Change in Project Development Objectives
Change in Results Framework
Change in Components and Cost
Change in Loan Closing Date(s)
Reallocation between Disbursement Categories
Change in Disbursements Arrangements
Change in Safeguard Policies Triggered
Change in Legal Covenants
Change in Institutional Arrangements
Change in Implementation Schedule
04‐May‐2017 61.70 Change in Results Framework
Change in Components and Cost
Change in Loan Closing Date(s)
Reallocation between Disbursement Categories
Change in Disbursements Arrangements
Change in Legal Covenants
Change in Institutional Arrangements
Change in Implementation Schedule
Other Change(s)
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KEY RATINGS
Outcome Bank Performance M&E Quality
Satisfactory Satisfactory Substantial
RATINGS OF PROJECT PERFORMANCE IN ISRs
No. Date ISR Archived DO Rating IP Rating
Actual
Disbursements
(US$M)
01 20‐Mar‐2012 Satisfactory Satisfactory .20
02 30‐Oct‐2012 Satisfactory Satisfactory 7.10
03 29‐May‐2013 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 19.22
04 09‐Dec‐2013 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 28.18
05 17‐May‐2014 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 38.59
06 08‐Jan‐2015 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 47.01
07 15‐Jul‐2015 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 58.43
08 13‐Jan‐2016 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 63.24
09 30‐Jun‐2016 Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory 84.97
10 04‐Jan‐2017 Satisfactory Satisfactory 99.60
11 10‐Aug‐2017 Satisfactory Satisfactory 99.72
12 26‐Mar‐2018 Satisfactory Satisfactory 103.21
13 29‐Jun‐2018 Satisfactory Satisfactory 103.21
SECTORS AND THEMES
Sectors
Major Sector/Sector (%)
Education 100
Early Childhood Education 2
Public Administration ‐ Education 29
Primary Education 69
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Themes
Major Theme/ Theme (Level 2)/ Theme (Level 3) (%)
Human Development and Gender 94
Education 82
Access to Education 41
Education Financing 41
Nutrition and Food Security 12
Nutrition 6
Food Security 6
Urban and Rural Development 7
Rural Development 7
Rural Infrastructure and service delivery 7
ADM STAFF
Role At Approval At ICR
Regional Vice President: Pamela Cox Jorge Familiar Calderon
Country Director: Alexandre V. Abrantes Anabela Abreu
Senior Global Practice Director: Keith E. Hansen Jaime Saavedra Chanduvi
Practice Manager: Chingboon Lee Reema Nayar
Task Team Leader(s):
Peter Anthony Holland, Patrick
Philippe Ramanantoanina
Yves Jantzem, Elena Maria
Roseo
ICR Contributing Author: Axelle Latortue
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I. PROJECT CONTEXT AND DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVES
A. CONTEXT AT APPRAISAL
Context
Country Background
1. At the time of preparation of the Haiti Education for All Project ‐ Phase II (EFA 2) in 2011, Haiti was a country that
displayed classic signs of fragility. It had suffered a series of external shocks, which increased its fragility and reversed the
small poverty gains attained between 2004 and 2008. In 2007, an international spike in food and fuel prices deeply
affected its economy. In 2008, a series of tropical storms and hurricanes caused widespread damages and losses estimated
at approximately US$900 million (15 percent of gross domestic product [GDP]). In January 2010, a massive earthquake
(7.3 on the Richter scale) struck Port‐au‐Prince and other cities in three of the 10 administrative departments, causing the
worst humanitarian disaster in Latin America and the Caribbean in recorded history. Haiti suffered from widespread
destruction, the death of an estimated 3.5 percent of the population, and the displacement of 16 percent of the
population. The total damage was estimated at US$7.9 billion (120 percent of GDP). Nine months later, in October 2010,
a cholera epidemic struck the country and afflicted 285,000 individuals and caused nearly 5,000 deaths as of April 2011.
With a GDP of US$741 per person in 2011, Haiti ranked 158th of 183 countries on the United Nations Human Development
Index. It was estimated that over half of the Haitian population lived in extreme poverty (earning less than US$1 per day)
and 78 percent on less than US$2 per day, with these rates being higher in rural areas.
2. In spite of these extreme challenges post the earthquake and extreme fragility that endured for several years to
come, at the time of Project appraisal (nearly two years after the earthquake), Haiti was in a phase of recovery: economic
activity had mainly resumed, and the Haitian economy was projected to have grown by 6.1 percent in 2011. Furthermore,
improving Haiti’s human capital, including by improving access to basic services, was recognized as being critically linked
to Haiti’s growth prospects. Rebuilding the education system was a centerpiece of the President’s campaign, and Universal
Primary Education (Éducation Primaire Universelle, UPE) was at the heart of his policy priorities.
Sector Background
3. Haiti’s education system faced a fragile and complex situation at the time of appraisal, including difficulties in
relation to both the demand for and the supply of education. Even before the 2010 earthquake, the sector was plagued
by a lack of reliable data, shortages in schooling infrastructure, trained teachers, and effective governance mechanisms.
The earthquake exacerbated and compounded these issues further by causing the death of over 1,000 teachers and staff
from the Ministry of National Education and Professional Training (Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Formation
Professionnelle, MENFP), the loss of 85 percent of the schools in affected areas, leaving a Ministry and a Minister in a
state of trauma, and resulting in up to 2.9 million children experiencing an interruption in their studies or continuing to
lack access to education due to school closings. On the demand side, households struggled to finance education, as over
80 percent of primary and secondary schools were nonpublic,
1
and the average tuition cost of US$70 per child per year
was prohibitive. Families most often cited the cost of education as the most important barrier to education access. This
constraint was especially relevant for families living in rural areas, which were characterized by poverty rates of 82 percent
(and 77 percent in extreme poverty). On the supply side, there were not enough spaces for children to enroll in school;
an estimated 400,000 to 500,000 children ages 6 to 12, mostly in rural areas, were not attending school. Although funds
poured into the country post the earthquake, the donor community suffered from a great lack of coordination,
1
Nonpublic schools include the multitude of school types which are not directly managed and financed by the Ministry of Education—these include
for‐profit private schools, schools managed by nonprofit organizations, religious schools, and so on.
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fragmentation, and competing priorities and interests; this lack of coordination was further exacerbated by an extremely
weakened counterpart and fragile context.
4. The limited available data at the time also revealed that the quality of education was uneven and often very low,
especially in the rural areas: on average, children in grade 3 were able to read fewer than 23 words per minute, far below
the standard of 60 words per minute for early primary reading fluency. Twenty‐nine percent of students studying in
Haitian Creole were unable to read a single word by grade 3, and children answered fewer than 10 percent and 17 percent
of reading comprehension questions correctly in French and Creole, respectively. On the positive side, however, Haiti had
nearly achieved the goal of eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education in 2009.
5. With respect to institutional capacity, the earthquake had also greatly diminished the already‐limited ability of
the MENFP to regulate a mostly nonpublic system; most Ministry buildings had collapsed, thousands of civil servants had
perished, and trauma was widespread among the survivors. As an example, 1,200 staff and teachers from the MENFP
alone died during the collapses of the Ministry’s main building and of over 4,200 schools. At the time of appraisal, about
90 percent of schools were nonpublic. Before the earthquake, fewer than 20 percent of nonpublic schools were
functioning with a permit from the MENFP, due in part to the MENFP’s inability to undertake the necessary activities to
accredit schools. Post the earthquake, this already‐low capacity was drastically weakened, as was the Government’s
ability to finance even the most basic sector expenses.
6. The sector was hence characterized by a post‐disaster context of high fragility, greatly diminished institutional
capacity, limited data availability, political uncertainty, and unstable sector financing. In this context, the Project
preparation team had to balance the level of ambition and risk‐taking in Project design, while considering the context of
the country and the sector.
Rationale for World Bank Support
7. The World Bank had re‐engaged in Haiti in 2005, planning to support a three‐phase program with each phase
lasting three to four years; EFA 2 was the second phase of this support program. The phased program began with the
Education for All Project in Support of the First Phase of the Education for All Program (EFA 1) (P099918). EFA 1’s successes
formed the basis for the development of EFA 2 (the Project), which aimed to build on EFA 1 by financing the continuation
of important priorities started under EFA 1 and help bridge the anticipated US$1 billion financing gap for implementing
the MENFP’s Operational Plan for Education (OPE), the strategy document outlining its national priorities. In addition, in
response to the availability of additional funds and the evolution of critical needs in subsequent years, between 2008 and
2010 the World Bank had begun financing three additional operations at the time of Project appraisal.
2
These operations
focused on school reconstruction, teacher training, and post‐earthquake support to teachers in affected schools through
grants (see annex 7) and were closing in 2012 and 2013. EFA 2 consolidated the World Bank’s education portfolio by
continuing and expanding the most impactful activities from these operations. This allowed the MENFP and World Bank
to reduce duplicate reporting and administrative processes and focus their efforts on the more substantive activities. In
a chaotic donor landscape with tremendous sector financing needs post the earthquake, EFA 2 would also allow the World
Bank to serve an important role in mobilizing donor resources (Canadian funds through the Catalytic Fund, the Caribbean
Development Bank through parallel financing, and the Global Partnership for Education, GPE) as well as convening various
2
These were the Meeting Teacher Needs for Education for All Project (P106621), the Emergency School Reconstruction Project (P115261), and the
Education for All Fast‐Track Initiative (EFA‐FTI) Catalytic Fund Project (P114174). Annex 7 provides a table with the active World Bank‐financed
projects during EFA 2 appraisal.
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partners around the OPE, namely the Inter‐American Development Bank, Canada, the Caribbean Development Bank, and
the GPE, among others.
Theory of Change (Results Chain)
8. The Project had four objectives which made up the original project development objective (PDO). First, the
Project would increase enrollment to improve access to primary education.
9. Second, the Project would improve the quality of primary education through support to: (a) an accelerated pre‐
service teacher training program (Formation Initiale Accélérée, FIA) and (b) financing a number of activities aiming to
produce a cadre of qualified community instructors in rural areas.
10. Third, the Project would improve institutional capacity in the education sector by: (a) financing goods, training,
and consultancies aimed at improving sector management and capacity by modernizing and strengthening the
competencies within five key directorates at the MENFP central level and establishing program‐based budgets between
the MENFP central level and the decentralized Departmental Directorates of Education (Directions Départementales de
l’Education, DDEs), thereby increasing their access to funds and results orientation; (ii) fostering the establishment of
public‐private partnerships in Haiti’s largely nonpublic education system by creating the National Education Partnership
Office (Office National de Partenariat en Education, ONAPE) and funding student assessments and evaluations to increase
MENFP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity.
11. Fourth, a crosscutting objective of the Project was to promote the sustainability of the Project’s chosen
approaches and programs, in recognition that the sustainability of Project activities was vital to the achievement of
UPE in Haiti. Thus, strategies (described below in the Components section) were included in the Project design to facilitate
the financial and operational sustainability of key activities of the Project, including notably with respect to the Tuition
Waiver Program (TWP) and community‐based schools.
12. Furthermore, as a second phase Adaptable Program Grant and part of a broader program, the Project would
contribute to achieving the higher‐level EFA Program objective, approved by the Board of Executive Directors on April
26, 2007: to improve access to primary education for poor children ages 6‐12, while improving equity, quality, and
governance of the education sector. Specifically, access and quality were explicitly mentioned in the EFA 2 PDO, while
governance was a sub‐objective related to the capacity‐strengthening activities, which over time could be expected to
improve the manner in which the rules, norms, and actions in the education system were undertaken to achieve results.
Improving equity in education was implicit in the Project design, in particular because of the targeting mechanisms
allowing the Project to reach some of the poorest families and underserved areas of the country.
13. Finally, the Project was an integral part of the World Bank Group Haiti Interim Strategy Note (ISN) for 2012
which aimed to support the Government of Haiti (GoH) in implementing sustainable post‐earthquake reconstruction.
Through its design built to increase access to education, it was expected that the Project would contribute in a substantial
way to achieving the third objective out of the four ISN overarching objectives: building human capital. It would also
contribute to a crosscutting theme of building governance and capacity in favor of reconstruction post the earthquake,
through its capacity‐strengthening activities.
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Project Development Objectives (PDOs)
14. The original objective of the Project, as stated in the Project Appraisal Document (PAD) and in the Financing
Agreement, was to support the strategy for rebuilding the education system through the implementation of sustainable
programs to improve: (a) access, particularly of underserved populations, to primary education; (b) quality of primary
education; and (c) the institutional capacity in the recipient's education sector.
Key Expected Outcomes and Outcome Indicators
15. Flowing from the PDO, the main outcomes originally expected as a result of Project interventions were:
a. Outcome 1: Access to primary education is improved, particularly by underserved populations;
b. Outcome 2: Quality of primary education is improved;
c. Outcome 3: Sustainable programs are implemented (which support the improvement of primary education
access and quality, and the institutional capacity in the education sector);
d. Outcome 4: Institutional capacity in the education sector is improved.
16. These outcomes would be measured using the following indicators:
a. PDO Indicator 1: Access: Number of children enrolled through the provision of tuition waivers (baseline:
80,000; end target: 100,000 [annual, non‐cumulative])
b. PDO Indicator 2: Quality: Percentage of children enrolled in participating schools for more than one year
reading at grade level in grade 3 (baseline: 16 percent; end target: 20 percent)
c. PDO Indicator 3: Sustainability: Percentage of community teachers financed by the Government of Haiti.
(baseline: 0 percent; end target: 90 percent)
d. PDO Indicator 4: Capacity: Percentage of schools inspected at least once per year by the MENFP (baseline:
0 percent; end target: 75 percent)
Components
17. The Project consisted of four components. For most components, the Project’s actual expenditures are higher
than the appraisal‐stage estimates because of additional financing (AF) added later, which increased the total amount of
funds available for Project implementation. Actual expenditures for component 3 were slightly lower than the planned
amount at appraisal because of reallocation of funds toward other activities (see table 1).
18. Component 1. Improving Access to Quality Primary Education: (Appraisal: US$45 million; Actual Expenditure:
US$55.62 million
3
). This component was composed of three sub‐components supporting enrollment.
i. Enhance the TWP: The first subcomponent aimed to improve the quality of the existing TWP, which had been
established and successfully implemented under EFA 1, by providing student enrollment grants to School
Management Committees (SMCs) of participating nonpublic schools. The grants would allow the schools to enroll
100,000 primary tuition‐free students and who would receive a minimum number of textbooks. In return for
participating in the program, schools agreed to abide by quality and fiduciary standards and procedures
established by the MENFP. Capitalizing on lessons learned from its implementation under EFA 1, the Project
proposed improvements to the TWP such as strengthening the financial and school management capacities of
SMCs, evolving toward a results‐based model, promoting increased accountability of participating schools via
3
The actual expenditures include the tuition waiver and community‐based school programs, as well as post‐hurricane construction and rehabilitation.
The SHN Program was eventually moved to component 2, so it is not included in actual component 1 expenditures.
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tools such as school scorecards, strengthening sanctions for non‐compliance of schools, and linking the program
to the Project‐financed accelerated teacher training program by encouraging TWP schools to hire trained
teachers. Additional aspects envisaged that would help make the program sustainable were the gradual
incorporation of tuition waivers into the education budget and identifying a process for graduation from the full
subsidies of the program for participating schools, leading to new partnership and financial support arrangements
between the MENFP and schools and a more manageable level of financing for the Government.
ii. Support to Communities: Piloted in 10 communities in the lead‐up to Project preparation, this subcomponent
would provide grants and training to 200 rural communities to offer basic educational services to school‐aged
children by building or rehabilitating, equipping, and operating schools, including the target of creating or
rehabilitating 700 classrooms. With support from and the supervision of the MENFP and local government,
training in grassroots management would be provided to community representatives. Community‐based teacher
salaries would initially be financed by the Project and would be taken on by the Government budget—an
arrangement agreed with the Government’s Ministry of Finance. At least 90 percent of salaries would be covered
by the Government by Project end, thereby helping to ensure the sustainability of the program. The schools would
also be officially recognized by the MENFP as public, community‐based schools, thereby providing the schools
with a clear legal, sustainable status.
iii. School Health and Nutrition (SHN): Implemented by the National School Feeding Program (Programme National
de Cantine Scolaire, PNCS) and delivered by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), this subcomponent would
finance the provision of a daily morning snack and hot meal representing 1,200 calories per child per school‐day,
biannual deworming, and the provision of vitamin A for 70,000 primary school children annually.
19. Component 2. Support to Teaching and Learning: (Appraisal: US$10 million; Actual Expenditure: US$33.89
million
4
)
i. Expand Pre‐service Teacher Training: This subcomponent would support the continuation of the FIA—established
under EFA 1
5
—aiming to certify an additional 3,300 primary teachers by Project end. Working in partnership with
teacher training institutes, the FIA consisted of one year of intensive institution‐based training followed by two
years of classroom‐based practice, after which certified teachers could be hired into the education system.
Teacher candidates were selected using an entrance exam and other criteria and received stipends during the
training program.
ii. Support to Reading Instruction and Distance Education: This subcomponent aimed to support a host of activities
to improve reading instruction and develop distance education policies and technologies, including in particular
training for qualified community instructors in rural areas. Other subcomponent activities would include the
development of a teacher’s guide with daily lesson plans for use by teacher trainees. The training curriculum
would include the structured reading instruction approach Lekti se Lavni (Reading is the Future), which was
already in use by the MENFP for improving reading instruction in early grades.
4
The actual expenditures include the SHN Program (including post‐hurricane), pre‐service teacher training activities, and support to reading
instruction/distance education activities.
5
At the time of preparation of EFA 1, there was a severe lack of trained teachers: an estimated 10,000 new teachers were needed to achieve education
for all, but nationwide just 450 new teachers were certified each year. EFA 1 therefore aimed to increase the output of trained teachers to about
1,200 per year.
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20. Component 3. Institutional Strengthening and Governance: (Appraisal: US$4 million; Actual Expenditure:
US$1.21 million)
i. Modernization and Transformation of the MENFP: This subcomponent would finance goods, training, and
consultancies to increase sector management capacity by modernizing and supporting MENFP entities at the
central and decentralized levels. Activities at the central level would include the updating of accounting systems
and training in, among others, information management, communications strategies, procurement procedures,
database creation and data collection, and environmental safeguards. At the decentralized level, DDEs would
benefit from program‐based budgets, allowing them to better conduct their supervision and support role to
schools, teacher training centers, and communities as well as supervising the implementation of OPE activities.
ii. Supporting Public‐Private Partnerships and Community Involvement: This subcomponent would help establish
ONAPE, financing the updating of its operational manual, technical assistance for the operationalization of its
administrative and technical units, and equipment and rental offices for its physical location.
21. Component 4. Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation: (Appraisal: US$ 6; Actual Expenditure: US$ 12.3
million) This component would support: (a) the coordination of Project implementation by financing project management
costs to implement and supervise activities, and the cost of consultancies associated with the Project Implementation
Unit (PIU) and (b) activities to strengthen M&E capacity, generating monitoring reports by undertaking two waves of Early
Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) and an impact evaluation of the TWP, strengthening independent verification systems
for the TWP, and supporting rural communities and DDE‐level staff in monitoring and data recording and reporting.
22. The following table summarizes resource allocations at Project closing (post restructurings, which are outlined in
the section below):
Table 1: Final Project Resource Allocations
Activities
US$, millions
Component 1, of which: 55
Subcomponent 1.1 ‐ Tuition Waiver Program 48
Subcomponent 1.2 ‐ Community schools 7
Component 2, of which: 33.8
Subcomponent 2.1 ‐ Teacher training 3.5
Subcomponent 2.2 ‐ Reading instruction 3.3
Subcomponent 2.3 ‐ School Health and Nutrition Program 27
Component 3 ‐ Institutional Strengthening 1.2
Component 4 ‐ Project Management and M&E 12.3
Hurricane Matthew Emergency Reconstruction and School
Feeding 2.8
B. SIGNIFICANT CHANGES DURING IMPLEMENTATION
23. There were a significant number of changes during the Project’s lifetime; it was restructured a total of six times
(including twice as part of AFs) as follows:
i. In August 2012, IDA grant proceeds were reallocated to incorporate a separate disbursement category. This was
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inadvertently omitted during Project preparation for this Project Preparation Facility (PPF) expenditures.
ii. In June 2014, the Project received AF in the amount of US$14.75 million from the Haiti Reconstruction Fund (HRF)
to cover a gap in funding for the SHN Program, extending it by two school years (until 2017). The PDO was
simultaneously restructured to make it more achievable and measurable (see below). The restructuring also
triggered the application of World Bank’s Operational Policy 4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement, following the
identification of a case of resettlement of six families that had occurred under the community‐based school
subcomponent 1.2. Project design and selected activities were also revised and the closing date was extended
by 15 months (from June 2015 to September 2016) to allow for completion of activities.
iii. In October 2014, the Project received AF in the amount of US$24.1 million from the GPE to help finance the
implementation of the MENFP’s transitional education sector plan (Programme d’Interventions Prioritaires en
Education PIPE), which is the subsequent education sector plan following the OPE; Project activities were scaled
up as part of the AF to increase its impact. The closing date was again extended by nine months for the IDA grant,
from September 2016 to June 2017. This allowed for implementation of scaled‐up and new activities.
iv. In April 2015, the Project activities were adjusted to reflect revised Ministry priorities, in particular on school
accreditation, and to revise the results framework.
v. In August 2016, the closing date of the HRF grant was extended by nine months to align with the parent project
closing date in June 2017 and to ensure the continuity of the SHN Program (planned to end during the 2015–16
school year) through the end of the 2016–17 school year.
vi. In May 2017, the Project was restructured to respond to Hurricane Matthew, a Category IV hurricane that struck
Haiti in October 2016. The hurricane affected over 2 million people and damaged schools. As a result, the
Government requested the support of the World Bank and other development partners for the rapid reallocation
of existing Project funds. This destructive event led to several adjustments (further described below) via the sixth
restructuring. Project funds (US$3.5 million) were shifted away from some existing activities and redirected to
newly added hurricane response activities; and the community‐based school subcomponent was adjusted to
align with the MENFP’s revised strategic priorities. The closing date of the IDA and GPE grants was extended by
12 months (from June 2017 to June 2018) to allow for execution of key post‐Hurricane Matthew emergency
response activities and completion of revised community‐based school activities.
Revised PDOs and Outcome Targets
24. The revised PDO, as stated in the second Restructuring Paper and the Project’s Amended and Restated Financing
Agreement, is to support: (a) enrollment of students in select nonpublic primary schools in disadvantaged areas; (b)
student attendance in select public and nonpublic primary schools in disadvantaged areas; and (c) strengthened
management of the recipient's primary education sector.
25. Therefore, the revised Project outcomes were:
a. Outcome 1: Enrollment of children in nonpublic primary education is supported;
b. Outcome 2: Student attendance in select public and nonpublic schools in disadvantaged areas is
maintained;
c. Outcome 3: Education sector management is strengthened.
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Revised PDO Indicators
26. The revised outcomes at Project closing were measured using the following indicators.
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Table 2: Original and New End‐of‐Project PDO‐level Indicators
Outcome /
Component
Original PDO Indicator New Outcome /
Component
New PDO Indicator
1 ‐ Access Access: Number of children
enrolled through the provision of
tuition waivers
1 ‐ Enrollment Enrollment of students in select
nonpublic primary schools in
disadvantaged areas: Number of tuition
waivers financed in nonpublic schools
2 ‐ Quality Quality: Percentage of children
enrolled in participating schools
for more than one year reading at
grade level in grade 3
2 ‐ Student
Attendance
Student attendance in select public and
nonpublic primary schools in
disadvantaged areas: Attendance rate is
at least maintained in schools
benefitting from the SHN Program
3 ‐
Sustainability
Sustainability: Percentage of
community teachers financed by
the Government of Haiti
4 ‐ Institutional
Capacity
Capacity: Percentage of schools
inspected at least once per year by
the MENFP
3 ‐ Sector
Management
The MENFP uses data on registered
public and nonpublic primary schools to
assess, categorize, and improve the
quality of service delivery
Revised Components
27. Over time, there were a multitude of changes to the Project’s components over its timeline. The major revisions
are summarized below and detailed in annex 10.
28. Component 1 – Support to Primary Education Enrollment (revised from Improving Access to Quality Primary
Education)
29. TWP. Since the Project financed a higher number of students than originally planned for the first two years of the
project (2012–13 and 2013–14) and due to delays in funding availability from other development partners. The TWP was
initially reduced but was later scaled up using GPE financing in order to provide training to TWP school directors and
SMCs. Support to the last TWP cohort was then taken over by the new World Bank‐financed operation (Providing an
Education of Quality in Haiti [PEQH], P155191) which became effective in March 2017.
30. Community‐based Schools. The scope of this subcomponent was reduced due to higher‐than‐anticipated unit
costs of school construction. In line with MENFP low implementation capacity (lower‐than‐expected planning,
construction, and supervision capacity at the community, departmental, and PIU levels), and to respond to Hurricane
Matthew
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(IDA funds originally planned for the construction of community‐based schools were mobilized toward
emergency activities). Furthermore, as the GoH had not been able to assume the cost of teachers’ salaries due to financial
6
A more detailed description of the changes to PDO‐ and intermediate‐level indicators made during each restructuring can be found in annex 8.
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Restructuring of May 2017.
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constraints and competing priorities, the Project therefore continued financing 100 percent of community teacher salaries
using funds that would otherwise have financed the continued construction of schools (as outlined in sections below, the
MENFP started nominating teachers in 2017 under the new PEQH financing).
31. Hurricane Matthew Rehabilitation, Construction, Materials and School Feeding. To enable hurricane‐affected
public schools to reopen as quickly as possible, schools in three of the most affected geographical departments would be
rehabilitated, school furniture sets, and pedagogical kits would be distributed, and an enhanced daily SHN Program would
be provided to children (further detailed in component 2 below).
32. The SHN Program. This sub ‐component was moved from component 1.3 to component 2.3 to align with the
revision of the outcome linked to component 2 (improved student attendance). Changes to content the subcomponent
are described below.
33. Information for Nonpublic School Accountability. This subcomponent was added in the third restructuring,
financing the design and implementation of an information campaign to improve financial accountability of selected
schools under the TWP and improve TWP implementation.
34. Component 2 – Support to Improved Student Attendance (revised from Support to Teaching and Learning)
35. FIA. The Project certified about 2,600 teachers. However, the Government was limited in its ability to replace
unqualified teachers in public schools or require nonpublic schools to recruit them. As a result, the recruitment of a fourth
cohort of FIA candidates was cancelled beginning with the 2013–14 school year.
36. M’Ap Li Net Ale. As part of the second restructuring, the Project introduced a technically improved version of the
approach called M’ap Li Net Ale (I Am Reading All the Way) developed by the MENFP with the U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID). This approach would involve teacher training and coaching, student and teacher assessment, and
the provision of teacher and student materials for grade 1 classes in community‐based schools and selected schools
participating in the TWP.
37. Support to the Quality of Reading Instruction. The financing of the activity was taken on by USAID, the
development of a teacher’s guide was eliminated from the Project in the sixth restructuring.
38. SHN Program. The second and third restructurings scaled up the provision of SHN services, filling a financing gap
and providing services for primary students
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for two additional school years beyond the original Project timeline for the
(2014–15 and 2015–16) school year. The third restructuring introduced independent verification of service provision by
firms under the SHN Program and provided additional funds for the introduction of fuel‐efficient stoves in selected
schools. To respond to the severe food security crisis that followed Hurricane Matthew, the SHN Program was later
expanded in scope and to cover children in affected areas (providing water treatment kits to prevent cholera, improved
cook stoves, kitchen utensils, and additional soap and hygiene training in affected schools).
39. Component 3 – Strengthening Sector Management (revised from Institutional Strengthening and Governance)
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The second restructuring provided services for 76,500 students in 2014–15 and 2015–16 and the third restructuring provided services for about
an additional 68,000 students over four months in 2014–15 and about an additional 34,000 students in 2015–16.
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40. ONAPE & School Accreditation. In place of supporting the ONAPE, the establishment of which had stalled
following a shift in the Government’s priorities, starting with the second restructuring, component 3 would support the
development of school accreditation standards, methodologies, and procedures, including by financing the National
Consultative Committee for Accreditation. In the fourth restructuring, these accreditation activities were scaled back to
align with refocused Government priorities and timing on school accreditation; in particular, following policy reforms in
August 2014, the MENFP decided to focus its efforts on immediate measures to identify and register existing schools in
Haiti as a prerequisite to schools’ accreditation. The component activities were therefore revised as school registration
(and provision of identity cards) at the national level, the establishment of reconciled data on all Haitian schools, and the
development and testing of tools for assessing schools against service delivery criteria.
41. Sector Studies and Pilots. The second restructuring supported thematic sector studies and pilots aimed at
improving budget programming and education system accountability. In the third restructuring, funds were added to
include additional studies, and new activities: the development of an annual education sector action plan, from 2014 to
2017; an assessment of the potential for creating a multi‐donor trust fund as a pooled funding mechanism for the sector;
and the design and piloting of a student mentoring program for children. In the sixth restructuring, several activities were
eliminated because they were not considered priorities: support to DDEs via a program‐based budget; the student
mentoring pilot; the development of the annual sector action plans; and the development of an Education Country
Diagnostic report and certain other thematic studies. These changes allowed the MENFP to prioritize its attention to
interventions related to Hurricane Matthew, and support for the MENFP’s development of a new multiyear sector
Operational Plan.
42. Component 4 – Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation
43. This component was revised to: (i) finance an impact evaluation of M’ap Li Net Ale (rather than of Lekti se Lavni)
(ii) provide additional support to oversee Project implementation and (iii) Support the development and administration
of an Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGMA).
Other Changes
44. A number of additional changes occurred over the course of the six restructurings to align with revised objectives,
components, and financing. These included changes in legal covenants, component costs, disbursement arrangements
and estimates, and disbursement category reallocations, as well as changes in institutional arrangements and
implementation schedule.
Rationale for Changes and Their Implication on the Original Theory of Change
45. The PDO was revised to (i) better align it with new priorities, as outlined in the MENFP’s Transitional Sector
Plan and (ii) reflect the intended scope of the Project. The revision addressed a misalignment between the scope of the
project (enrollment) and the wording of the PDO (access). Hence, the first Project outcome was renamed from ‘access’ to
‘enrollment.’
46. Explicit reference to quality was removed from the PDO. Quality was not clearly defined and would prove difficult
to measure as there were no system‐wide learning assessments allowing regular and consistent measurement of learning
outcomes in Haiti. The Project would instead focus on the impact of SHN activities on student attendance as the second
Project outcome (see in table 1). Given the sector context during implementation, this was considered a more realistic,
timely, and measurable objective and as a precursor for quality. In addition, quality remained an underlying foundation
of most activities, namely: (i) component 3 focused on supporting the MENFP in developing a Quality Assurance System
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Table A9.13: Intermediate Indi cators – Sector Management
Intermediate Indicators – Sector Management
P ‐‐ A
Baseline
Project Closing (2017/18)
IRI 21. The school registration database is operational P MENFP school registration database is
operational
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A No
MENFP school
registration database is
operational
IRI 22. Percentage of schools inspected at least once per year
by the MENFP
P 95%
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A 0 72.70
IRI 23. Diagnostic sector studies completed P Three diagnostic sector studies completed
A Diagnostic
sector study not
designed, and
student
mentoring pilot
not developed
Three diagnostic sector studies completed
IRI 24. Targeted supervision approach of the TWP based on
school needs is implemented
P Not applicable
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A No NA. This activity is discontinued under the
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The above version of this indicator was introduced in the sixt h restructuring (May 2017). Two other versions of this indicato r were used to measure achievement of the outcome of
strengthened sector management prior to this version. These are :
(i): “Percentage of schools registered in the school accreditat ion database”, introduced in the third restructuring in October 2014 (baseline: 29.0 percent; end target: at least 70 percent;
last value achieved prior to rev ision: 30.8 percent) (Source: I SR no.6); and
(ii) “MENFP uses data on regist ered schools to identify nonpubl ic schools eligible to undergo it s accreditation process,” intr oduced in the fourth restructuring in May 2015 (baseline: MENFP
has registered all public and nonpublic primary schools request ing a school identity card; end target: at least 30 percent of Project‐financed nonpublic school s are classified according to
their eligibility to undergo th e MENFP’s accreditation process; last value achieved prior to re vision: “MENFP in process of cl eaning the database of registere d schools, but only 103 schools
have received [a school identity card]”) (Source: ISR no. 9).
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Original end target: MENFP e nforces licensing standards.
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Original end target: 75 percen t of schools in Project areas.
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The activity linked with this indicator ended along with the Project’s financing of the TWP at the end of the 2016‐17 school year and was taken up by PEQH – hence the “Not applicable”
end target for 2017/18. The actua l value of the indicator was “ yes” in October 2017, prior to th e end of the Project’s financi ng of the TWP.
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project and will be transferred to the PEQH
project.
Actual value of indicator was “Yes” prior to
activity closing, and this activity was
transferred to the PEQH project.
IRI 25. MENFP develops a multi‐year sector operational plan P Sector Operational Plan drafted and under
discussion by stakeholders
A No multi‐year
sector
operational plan
Sector Operational Plan drafted and under
discussion by stakeholders
IRI 27. Activities to support MENFP actors’ technical and
administrative capacity are provided
P Training and technical assistance provided
on data collection to enable MENFP staff to
implement and oversee the QAS
A EFA 1 capacity
strengthening
activities carried
out
Training and technical assistance provided
on data collection to enable MENFP staff to
implement and oversee the QAS
IRI 29. Percentage of school feeding project beneficiary schools
contacted at least twice per year through a beneficiary
feedback mechanism to collect actionable feedback
P Not applicable
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A Beneficiary
feedback
mechanism not
in place
90% of school feeding program beneficiary
schools contacted at least twice during the
school year (SY) to collect feedback [in June
2017]
IRI 30. System for learning assessment at the primary level P Yes
A No Yes
IRI 31. Impact evaluations completed P 3
A 0 3
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ANNEX 10. DETAILED COMPONENT CHANGES
I. Component 1 – Support to Primary Education Enrollment (revised, from Improving Access to Quality
Education)
1. TWP. In the second restructuring in June of 2014, the number of years of IDA financing of the TWP
was reduced – grants to TWP schools would be financed until the end of the school year 2013‐14 rather
than 2014‐15 because the Project financed a higher number of students than originally planned for the
first two years of the project (2012‐13 and 2013‐14), due to delays in funding availability from other
development partners. Subsequently, the TWP was scaled up using GPE financing in the third restructuring
in October 2014, covering about 102,000 students and 35,000 students in the 2014‐15 and 2015‐16 school
years, respectively. Training to TWP school directors and SMCs would also be provided. Support of the
last TWP cohort was then taken over by the new World Bank financed operation (PEQH, 155191) which
became effective in March 2017.
2. Community‐based Schools. In the second restructuring, the scope of the community‐based school
sub‐component was reduced from 200 to 80 participating communities due to higher than anticipated
unit costs of school construction and in line with MENFP implementation capacity. In the sixth
restructuring, the construction scope was further reduced; to respond to Hurricane Matthew, IDA funds
originally planned for the construction of community‐based schools were mobilized toward emergency
activities. Thus, only 10 pilot schools were built, with a total of 21 classrooms. The number of communities
receiving grants to operate schools was reduced from the 80 planned, to 57 existing schools wanting to
continue in the program. Additional reasons for this shift were: lower than expected planning,
construction and supervision capacity at the community, departmental, and PIU levels; and a shift in the
MENFP’s priority towards construction of large‐scale, full public schools (rather than partial‐cycle schools
in remote areas), which had contributed to slow construction progress. Furthermore, as the Government
had not been able to assume the cost of teachers’ salaries due to financial constraints and competing
priorities, the Project therefore continued financing 100 percent of community teacher salaries using
funds that would otherwise have financed the continued construction of schools (as outlined in sections
below, the MENFP started nominating teachers in 2017 under the new PEQH financing).
3. Hurricane Matthew Rehabilitation, Construction, Materials & School feeding. With the sixth
restructuring, to enable affected schools in three geographical departments to reopen as quickly as
possible, public schools affected by the hurricane would be rehabilitated, primarily through the
replacement or repair of damaged roofs; up to 100 schools that suffered extensive structural damage
would benefit from rehabilitation or construction of semi‐permanent shelters
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. Complete school
furniture school sets would be provided in up to 24 schools, about 18,000 pedagogical kits distributed in
affected schools, and an enhanced daily SHN program would be provided to 13,000 children in affected
schools (further detailed in Component 2 below).
4. In addition, the SHN Program was moved from Project Component 1.3 to Component 2.3, to align with the revision of the outcome linked to Component 2 (improved student attendance). Changes to the
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Semi‐permanent shelters are building units with para‐cyclonic and para‐seismic foundations, roofs and partial walls that are meant to
last an average of 5 years. Construction of semi‐permanent shelters included construction for all community‐based schools that didn’t
already have classrooms built.
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sub‐component are described under Component 2, below.
5. Information for Nonpublic School Accountability. In the third restructuring, this sub‐component
was added, financing the design and implementation of an information campaign to improve financial
accountability of selected schools under the TWP and improve TWP implementation.
II. Component 2 – Support to Improved Student Attendance (revised, from Support to Teaching and
Learning)
6. FIA. At the time of the second restructuring, the Project had certified about 2,600 FIA teachers;
however, more than two‐thirds of graduates could not find a job in the teaching profession, as the
Government was limited in its ability to replace unqualified teachers in public schools or require nonpublic
schools to recruit them. As a result, the recruitment of a fourth cohort of FIA candidates was cancelled,
beginning with the 2013‐14 school year.
7. M’Ap Li Net Ale. In place of the structured reading instruction approach Lekti se Lavni, the Project
would introduce as part of the second restructuring, a technically‐improved version of the approach called
M’ap Li Net Ale (“I Am Reading All the Way”), developed by the MENFP with the USAID. This approach
would involve teacher training and coaching, student and teacher assessment and the provision of teacher
and student materials for Grade 1 classes in selected schools participating in the TWP and community‐
based schools. As the unit costs of the approach were high, the Project would also introduce a lower‐cost
version of M’ap Li Net Ale, requiring fewer human resources and the direct involvement of school
directors. Both versions of M’ap Li Net Ale would be tested in a pilot phase in 2014‐15 (benefiting about
12,000 students), and the approach would subsequently be scaled up in 2015‐16 based on pilot results.
8. Support to the Quality of Reading Instruction. As the financing of the activity was taken on by
another development partner, the development of a teacher’s guide including lesson plans for each day
of class for selected grades was eliminated from the Project in the sixth restructuring.,
9. SHN Program. The second and third restructurings scaled up the provision of SHN services, filling
a financing gap and providing services for primary students
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for two additional school years beyond the
original Project timeline (2014‐15 and 2015‐16). It was also anticipated that SHN beneficiary school
targeting might be revised, as a 2013 nutritional map of Haiti had become available by the second
restructuring, and the Project would support activities to prepare the transition to financing new schools
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.
The third restructuring introduced the independent verification by firms of service provision under the
SHN Program and provided additional funds for the introduction of fuel‐efficient stoves in selected
schools. The sixth restructuring eliminated the study on improved cook stoves because similar studies
already existed; and reduced the scope of the introduction of improved cook stoves to cover distribution
only in Hurricane‐affected schools, in order to: (i) allow funds for the SHN Program in hurricane‐affected
areas, as well as (ii) provide coverage for the overarching SHN Program for the 2016‐17 school year, given
significant reductions in school feeding financing by other development partners.
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The second restructuring would provide services for 76,500 students in 2014‐15 and 2015‐16, and the third restructuring would provide
services for about an additional 68,000 students over four months in 2014‐15 and about an additional 34,000 students in 2015‐16.
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10. SHN Program in Schools Affected by Hurricane Matthew. To respond to the severe food security
crisis that followed the hurricane, the SHN Program was expanded, expecting to cover about 13,000
additional students in 64 public schools in 2016‐17. The scope of the SHN Program was also expanded to
provide water treatment kits (as a cholera prevention approach), improved cook stoves for meal
preparation, kitchen utensils, additional soap, and additional hygiene training for cooks, teachers and
school directors.
III. Component 3 – Strengthening Sector Management (revised, from Institutional Strengthening and
Governance)
11. ONAPE & School Accreditation. In place of supporting ONAPE, the establishment of which had
stalled following a shift in Government priorities, starting with the second restructuring, Component 3
would support the development of school accreditation standards, methodologies and procedures,
including by financing the National Consultative Committee for Accreditation. In the fourth restructuring,
these accreditation activities were scaled back to align with refocused Government priorities and timing
on school accreditation: in particular, following policy reforms in August 2014, the MENFP decided to focus
its efforts on immediate measures to identify and register existing schools in Haiti as a prerequisite to
schools’ accreditation. The component activities were therefore revised as: school registration (and
provision of identity cards) at the national level; the establishment of reconciled data on all Haitian
schools; and the development and testing of tools for assessing schools against service delivery criteria.
12. Sector studies and Pilots. The second restructuring would also support thematic sector studies
and pilots aimed at improving budget programming and education system accountability. In the third
restructuring, funds were added to include additional sector studies, and a set of new activities was added:
the development of an annual education sector action plan, from 2014 to 2017; an assessment of the
potential for creating a multi‐donor trust fund as a pooled funding mechanism for the sector; and the
design and piloting of a student mentoring program for children. In the sixth restructuring, several
activities were eliminated: support to DDEs via a program‐based budget; the student mentoring pilot; the
development of the annual sector action plans; the development of an Education Country Diagnostic
report and certain other thematic studies, no longer deemed sector priorities. These changes would allow
the MENFP to focus its attention and implementation capacity on other priorities, such as Hurricane
Matthew, and a new activity: support for the MENFP’s development of a new multi‐year sector
Operational Plan.
IV. Component 4 – Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation
13. In line with the change in the second restructuring, this component was also revised to finance an
impact evaluation of M’ap Li Net Ale (rather than of Lekti se Lavni). In the third restructuring, the scope of
this component was expanded to provide additional support to oversee Project implementation and
added the financing of the development and administration of one wave of an EGMA in addition to the
two waves of EGRA planned. In the sixth restructuring, in order to redirect funds toward post‐hurricane
activities, the second round of EGRA and the planned round of EGMA were eliminated.