Girls Learning and Empowerment Project

The development objective of the Girls Learning and Empowerment Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to improve safe and equitable access to education, particularly for girls, and teaching-learning conditions in secondary schools in selected provinces. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improved access to quality and girl-friendly schools’ objectives are to improve access to school by creating quality learning environments, alleviating financial barriers to female participation, and increasing the proportion of female teachers. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving learning environments; and (ii) increasing female participation in education. The second component, improved quality of teaching-learning for all objective is to improve the quality of education, particularly for girls, through an improved availability and effectiveness of teaching-learning resources and practices, citizens’ engagement, and the creation of safe and inclusive school environments. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening the curriculum, textbooks, and teaching-learning materials; (ii) strengthening the quality of teaching; and (iii) promoting citizen engagement and safe and inclusive education environments. The third component, project management, monitoring and evaluation objectives are to ensure that capacities and systems are in place to ensure the quality of secondary teaching and learning and to achieve project outcomes while adhering to corporate environmental and social standards and other requirements. The fourth component, contingent emergency response (CERC) will be included in accordance with World Bank investment project financing (IPF) policy for projects in situations of urgent need of assistance or capacity constraints.