Component 1a of the Ghana Secondary Education Improvement Project – The Community Day Senior High School Project.
Community Day School Project
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Clients:
GoG
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Category:
World Bank & GoG
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Date:
Under Way
Community Day School Project
In line with the government’s effort to provide better social services in under-served areas, the World Bank Group and the Ghana government recently signed a financing agreement to improve access to secondary education in under-served districts throughout the country.
The Ghana Secondary Education Improvement Project, which aims to enroll 30,000 new secondary students, improve learning outcomes for 150,000 students in low-performing schools, and 2000 senior high school (SHS) teachers, head teachers and other education officials.
The project will also support equitable access through expansion and scholarships in under-served districts, and help achieve better quality of education, especially in science and mathematics, by strengthening school management and teaching, and expanding information communication and technology to schools.
Fucus :
The WordBank Phase :
Component 1 : aims to increase access, promote equity and improve quality in the SHS system
Subcomponent 1 (a) expanding access through the construction of approximately 23 new SHS in underserved areas, facilities improvement and expansion of existing low performing schools and through support for SHS access by disadvantaged students (scholarships to students from low income families, especially girls).
The Government of Ghana (MoE – GETFund) Phase :
Out of the 200 schools initially promised, 23 were to be constructed by the World Bank, with Government of Ghana, through GETFund assuming responsibility for 101 projects, bringing to a a revised total of 124 projects.
The 2017 infrastructure audit revealed that the challenge with several of the completed ones were not in use because their location away from their targeted communities made commuting to school difficult and hence students preferred not to choose those schools for their SHS education. GETFund has therefore had to make provision for the
