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: 15 | ARCHIVED on 12-May-2016 | ISR23359 | 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 5/12/2016 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 ($130.7 million in the Original Financing approved in 2008 and $265 million in the Additional Financing approved in 2013). The project currently supports some 4 million students in grades 6-10 in about 10,000 secondary schools and madrasahs from 215 Upazilas (sub-districts) in the country. It aims to enhance quality and equitable access through provision of poverty-targeted (based 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. 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 - are likely to be achieved by the end of the project. The updated intermediate indicators (IOs) have either met or surpassed the end-of-year targets. 3. Implementation Progress (IP): SEQAEP IP continues be satisfactory in view of the following achievements: (a) completed disbursement of Proxy Means Tested (PMT) stipends to 1.5 million students for second semester (July-December) of Academic Year AY2015 and advanced progress towards disbursement of stipends to about 2 million students for first semester (January-June) of AY2016; (b) provision of best student awards (top-ranked boys and girls in each grade) to 97,000 students from project schools; (c) provision of some 120,000 remedial classes in through 2500 Additional Class Teachers (ACT) in English, Mathematics and Science in 1300 project schools; (d) timely implementation of Developing the Reading Habit (DRH) sub-component activities benefiting 1.5 million student readers in all project schools; (e) disbursement of non-salary and non-tuition school grants for second semester of AY2015 in most of the project institutions; and (f) achievement of all three year-2 (2015) DLIs and substantial progress towards submission of eligible expenditures report for disbursement under the DLI expenditure category. It 4. DLIs: The achieved three year-2 (2015) DLIs achieved include: (i) carrying out of the first ever student learning assessment on a nationally representative sample in December of 2015; (ii) completion of the 2015 round of compliance verification and PMT validation surveys; and (iii) the proposal to bring Monitoring and Evaluating Wing (MEW) staffing at Directorate of Secondary and Higher education (DSHE) to be financed under revenue budget approved Ministry of Public Administration (MOPA). 5. Successor Program: Given that SEQAEP project is closing in 2017, the Government has initiated the process to identify the process and planning phase of developing a Harmonized Secondary Education sector program. The Government has formally requested the World Bank, ADB and other development partners for their interest and potential engagement in the sector program to be started from 2018. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance  --  Substantial  Substantial 5/12/2016 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) 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 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 21-Sep-2015 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 52.00 50.00 PHINDPDOTBL  Number of Students appearing in SSC exams in project areas ('000) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 187.00 388.00 388.00 485.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2017 5/12/2016 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) 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 98.00 160.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Monitor Learning Levels in Secondary Schools (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value N Y Y Y Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Apr-2016 31-Dec-2017 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 0.91 0.92 Date -- 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 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 -- 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Core) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 2200000.00 3984000.00 3984000.00 3663000.00 5/12/2016 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) Date 31-Dec-2012 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2017 PHINDPDOTBL  Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Core Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 54.00 52.00 52.00 53.00 Overall Comments KPIs will be updated during the second half of calendar year 2016 when more updated data become available 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 342000.00 500000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 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 2245000.00 4500000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Apr-2016 31-Dec-2017 5/12/2016 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  Number of eligible poor girls and boys receiving PMT stipends (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 5000000.00 5400000.00 5400000.00 Date 30-Jun-2007 21-Sep-2015 21-Apr-2016 31-Dec-2017 PHINDIRITBL  Proportion of project schools with functional PTA (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 46.00 46.00 50.00 Date -- 21-Sep-2015 21-Sep-2015 31-Dec-2017 Overall Comments IOs would be updated in the second half of 2016 when newer data becomes available. 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 80.23 0.07 80.16 0.07 100% P106161 IDA-53250 Effective XDR 172.80 172.80 0.00 85.26 87.54 49% 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 5/12/2016 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 Related Project(s) P146255-Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project - AF 5/12/2016 Page 7 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy