Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Moldova | Education Global Practice | Recipient Executed Activities | Investment Project Financing | FY 2014 | Seq No: 7 | ARCHIVED on 17-May-2019 | ISR36418 | Implementing Agencies: Expert Grup, Adrian Lupușor Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:16-Dec-2013 Effectiveness Date:20-Dec-2013 Original Closing Date:20-Dec-2018 Revised Closing Date:20-Dec-2018 Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The objective of the Project is to empower the Member Country’s civil society to: (i) engage local, regional and national authorities in evidence- based policy and budget dialogue in the Member Country’s education sector; and (ii) to promote an enabling environment for social accountability. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Name Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP)  Satisfactory  Satisfactory Implementation Status and Key Decisions The project was completed in a satisfactory manner in December 2018, empowering Moldovan citizens to engage local, regional, and national authorities in evidence-based policy and budget dialogue regarding educational reform, quality of services, and development priorities of primary, secondary general, and upper secondary schools and to enabling an environment in which social accountability (SAcc) initiatives thrive and develop. During 2013-2018, the project engaged around 15,000 people in discussing school budgets in 100 public hearings organized at the local level; 5/17/2019 Page 1 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) around 30,000 people shared their perceptions about the quality of school services by filing the Educational Stakeholder Report Cards, and 1,275 schools set up a profile on the project website (www.scoalamea.md) that provides information about their activity and performance. The site has been a knowledge sharing platform for more than 53,000 users over the years. At the policy level, the project managed to institutionalize two SAcc instruments: Participatory Administration Councils and Annual Public hearings on the school budgets. Both instruments contribute to increasing the accountability of school managers, leading to more effective use of school budgets and better school services. One of the multiplication platforms of the project's good practice is the establishment of the "Scoala Mea" Ambassador Network, where the institutions, after completing the "Scoala Mea" project, are willing to serve as a local reference point of social accountability. This offers the possibility for other interested parties that want to implement social responsibility tools on their own to benefit from the experience that 30 Ambassadors have gathered these past five years. They are located in 15 raions in all of the three regions of the country and can be contacted by email or by phone: http://scoalamea.md/vrei-sa-aplici-instrumentele-de-responsabilizare-sociala-in-scoala-ta-si-ai-nevoie-de-ajutor-contacteaza-ambasadorii-scoala- mea/ http://scoalamea.md/ghidul-ambasadorului-scoala-mea/ Risks Overall Risk Rating Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Overall  --  Moderate  Moderate Results Project Development Objective Indicators PHINDPDOTBL Number of educational-sector stakeholders taking part in education budget consultations at local, regional and national level (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 9,334.00 14,800.00 5,500.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDPDOTBL Number of users of the scoalamea.md (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 118,600.00 169,600.00 10,000.00 5/17/2019 Page 2 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDPDOTBL Quality level of the education policy debate (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target A survey will be Value Not available conducted in +2.36 to baseline +2.5 to baseline November 2018 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 Comments The quality level of the education policy debate is calculated based on the experts’ responses for the 23 questions in the questionnaire “How would you rate the level of debate on educational policies in the Republic of Moldova?”, on a scale from 1 (low level) to 10 (high level). The low rate of public debates was caused by frequent changes in the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research leadership (former Ministry of Education) during the last years of the project. The central government administration reform also delayed the implementation of some of the activities. Also, 2014 – Year 1 of the project – was a period of reforms and changes in the education sector; therefore, the score was higher and further expectations of experts in education were also higher. Another aspect of the lower results is the fact that many experts who participated in the survey were part of various governments throughout these years, which may skew the results of the survey. A recalculated indicator for the Y5 survey conducted from November to December 2018, using only the full completed questionnaires and the answers from experts that participated in at least three public events (17 out of 25 received, while methodology was requiring 20) indicates a +2.6, thus reaching and exceeding the target. PHINDPDOTBL Level of satisfaction of the quality of education services (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Y5: +0.5 to the +0.9 to the Year 4 +0.5 to the Year 5 current year cohort’s baseline, cohort’s baseline, cohort's estimated by EXPERT- Value estimated at the estimated at the baseline, GRUP between 1 and 4 beginning of the year = beginning of the year = estimated at 9.5 9.5 the beginning of the year Date 31-Dec-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 5/17/2019 Page 3 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) Comments The scoring scale is 1 to 10. The final target is 10 calculated as +0.5 to the year 5 cohort’s, estimated at the beginning of the year. The baseline survey was run in March-May 2018 and established for the fourth round of schools a level of school openness at 9.5, much higher than in the previous years. A repeated survey run in November 2018 resulted in an openness score of 9.98. Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators PHINDIRITBL Number of regional focal-points engaged (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Number of local community-level coalitions mobilized and engaged in project implementation (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Participants' self-assessed readiness degree (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value absent upper-medium upper-medium upper-medium Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 5/17/2019 Page 4 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) PHINDIRITBL Citizens taking part or represented by CSOs in participatory budgetary cycle (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 39,700.00 54,900.00 25,000.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Schools' budgets discussed (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 80.00 100.00 100.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Feedback reports from the school management and relevant public authorities on Social Accountability Activities (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 80.00 100.00 100.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Active users of the www.scoalamea.md (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 18,713.00 15,800.00 600.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 5/17/2019 Page 5 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) PHINDIRITBL Citizens participating with meaningful contributions in high-level policy debates (both written and oral) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 178.00 224.00 65.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 PHINDIRITBL Knowledge shared with other stakeholders nationally and internationally as part of annual conferences (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 295.00 450.00 200.00 Date 17-Feb-2014 17-Aug-2018 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P147607 TF-15859 Closed USD 0.70 0.70 0.00 0.69 0.01 98% Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P147607 TF-15859 Closed 16-Dec-2013 20-Dec-2013 20-Dec-2013 20-Dec-2018 20-Dec-2018 Cumulative Disbursements 5/17/2019 Page 6 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy Public Disclosure Copy The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Empowered citizens enhancing accountability of Edu reform and quality (P147607) Restructuring History There has been no restructuring to date. Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 5/17/2019 Page 7 of 7 Public Disclosure Copy