Project

The EQUALS Project is a Ministry of Education intervention which seeks to improve the quality of mathematics and science instruction in CDSSs and increase access to secondary education in remote areas. The Project emanates from a background of acute secondary education subsector’s challenges such as: persistently low learner achievement levels in Mathematics and Science subjects; inadequate enabling strategic policy reform agenda; low primary to secondary learner transition rate; inadequate and underqualified teachers; inadequate purposely built and resourced science learning space; unavailability or inadequate quantities of learner core textbooks, Teachers’ Guides, supplementary reading materials; and disparities in resource allocation. The EQUALS Project is funded by the World Bank through an initial $90million credit facility and later an Additional Financing (AF) through a Grant of $5.0million for mitigating the impact the COVID-19 pandemic. The total financing is therefore $95.0 million with a life span of six years running from October, 2019 to December, 2025.

The EQUALs project has a primary objective of improving the quality of mathematics and science instruction in CDSS and increase access to secondary education in selected remote areas.