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    Project Info and Key Achievements: Line Ministry Grant (Artf/Ida) Disb. Ratio: Timeline DO/IS/Risk CPPR Advice (Mar 2019)

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    The EQRA project aims to increase equitable access to education in Afghanistan, particularly for girls. Key achievements include construction of 1,178 of 2,647 planned school sites, with 44.5% of sites ongoing. However, over 50% of ongoing construction projects are less than 50% complete, risking disbursement targets. Teacher training has also been delayed due to incomplete implementation manuals. Additionally, hiring of a required project auditor has been significantly delayed. Urgent government action is needed to speed up school construction, finalize implementation documents, and expedite auditor recruitment to meet project objectives.

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    The EQRA project aims to increase equitable access to education in Afghanistan, particularly for girls. Key achievements include construction of 1,178 of 2,647 planned school sites, with 44.5% of sites ongoing. However, over 50% of ongoing construction projects are less than 50% complete, risking disbursement targets. Teacher training has also been delayed due to incomplete implementation manuals. Additionally, hiring of a required project auditor has been significantly delayed. Urgent government action is needed to speed up school construction, finalize implementation documents, and expedite auditor recruitment to meet project objectives.

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    The EQRA project aims to increase equitable access to education in Afghanistan, particularly for girls. Key achievements include construction of 1,178 of 2,647 planned school sites, with 44.5% of sites ongoing. However, over 50% of ongoing construction projects are less than 50% complete, risking disbursement targets. Teacher training has also been delayed due to incomplete implementation manuals. Additionally, hiring of a required project auditor has been significantly delayed. Urgent government action is needed to speed up school construction, finalize implementation documents, and expedite auditor recruitment to meet project objectives.

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    Project Info and Key Achievements: Line Ministry Grant (Artf/Ida) Disb. Ratio: Timeline DO/IS/Risk CPPR Advice (Mar 2019)

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    The EQRA project aims to increase equitable access to education in Afghanistan, particularly for girls. Key achievements include construction of 1,178 of 2,647 planned school sites, with 44.5% of sites ongoing. However, over 50% of ongoing construction projects are less than 50% complete, risking disbursement targets. Teacher training has also been delayed due to incomplete implementation manuals. Additionally, hiring of a required project auditor has been significantly delayed. Urgent government action is needed to speed up school construction, finalize implementation documents, and expedite auditor recruitment to meet project objectives.

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    EQRA

    Project Info and Key Achievements


    Objective: To increase equitable access to primary and secondary education, particularly for girls, in
    selected lagging provinces, and to improve learning conditions in Afghanistan.

    Line Ministry MoEd and MRRD Key Achievements To Date


    Grant $298m
    o School Construction (MRRD):
    (ARTF/IDA) $100m ARTF
    /$100m IDA/$98m GPE Completion Phases Updated numbers as of
    October 2019
    Disb. Ratio: 26% Planned construction sites 2,647

    Timeline Sep 2018 - Dec 2023 Ongoing construction sites 1,178


    (44.5% of total planned)
    DO/IS/Risk MS/MS/S (Sep 2019) Progress status: 1-25% 356
    Progress status: 26-50% 330
    CPPR Advice INITIATE IMPLEMENTATION
    Implementation manuals are Progress status: 51-75% 382
    (Mar 2019) readiness conditions and not Progress status: 76-100% 110
    completed yet. Issues around CCAP
    pose risk to the school construction
    component. Potential scale-up. o Soft-components (MoE): All activities will comments in 2020
    High-Risk/High Profile (HR/HP) onwards except procurement of firms for data collection
    EQRA
    Progress Against PDO Indicators

    Equitable Access to General Education


    PDO-level Indicators Baseline Previous CURRENT Target

    Students attending school regularly in selected 4,318,473 NA NA 5,018,429


    provinces (Dec-2016) (Jan-2019) (Jul-2019) (Dec-2023)
    Students attending school regularly in selected 1,616,799 NA NA 1,918,919
    provinces, female (Dec-2016) (Jan-2019) (Jul-2019) (Dec-2023)
    Out of school children in selected provinces 2,289,880 NA NA 1,089,880
    (Dec-2016) (Jan-2019) (Jul-2019) (Dec-2023)
    Out of school children in selected provinces, female 1,387,717 NA NA 643,029
    (Dec-2016) (Jan-2019) (Jul-2019) (Dec-2023)

    Improve learning conditions


    Teachers meeting subject specific qualifications 52 NA NA 72
    (Percentage) (Jun-2018) (Jan-2019) (Jul-2019) (Dec-2023)
    EQRA
    Major Bottlenecks and Asks (from gov/WB)

    Issue 1. Slow progress in completion of schools - more than 50% of ongoing projects are below 50% of physical progress,
    making it difficult for MRRD to meet the disbursement conditions this year. MRRD also needs to speed up the recruitment of
    engineers to strengthen the supervision.

    Action/Ask: MRRD is conducting an analysis of reasons for the slow progress. MRRD is also proposing to combine NCB
    projects with CDC-led construction. The proposal is being reviewed by the Bank to gauge its legal and financial implications.
    Issue 2. Due to slow progress on finalizing the implementation manuals for the soft components of the project, MOE has not
    been able to commence certain activities. Especially, the lagging component is Teacher Training. However, work towards
    achieving the DLIs for 2019 is largely on track.

    Action/Ask: Reiterate the importance of the foundational work to MOE.


    Issue 3. The recruitment of TVPA by MOF has been delayed significantly. The TPVA should have been hired within 6 months
    of the project effectiveness (by June 2019) as per the legal covenant. The TPVA recruitment has been shifted to 5 different
    directorates within MOF, and the procurement process (REOI announcement) just started on October 16.

    Action/Ask: A high level attention by MOF is needed to expedite the recruitment process.

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