EQUITY WITH QUALITY AND LEARNING AT SECONDARY (EQUALS) 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.
Lack of supporting feasibility study
Lack of environmental impact assessment
Lack of social Impact assessment
Lack of cost benefit analysis
Public consultation meetings not held
Limited competition
Lack of maintenance plans