Basic Education Strengthening Project

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

The development objective of Basic Education Strengthening Project is to improve student retention and teaching quality in junior secondary schools in targeted community councils of Lesotho and support the roll out of a new curriculum to strengthen Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) service delivery. This project has three components. 1) The first component, Improving student retention in junior secondary education, has the following sub-components: (i) Improving the efficiency of cash transfer schemes for students from poor households; (ii) Scaling up implementation of youth clubs for girls and boys; and (iii) Strengthening online training models in mathematics and science for junior secondary school teachers. 2) The second component, System strengthening to improve ECCD service delivery, has the following sub-components: (i) Structured support to roll out the new curriculum in reception classes and ECCD centers; and (ii) Mapping of ECCD service providers and developing a comprehensive, costed expansion strategy for the ECCD sector. 3) The third component, Project management, capacity building and technical assistance, aims at strengthening Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) and Ministry of Social Development (MoSD’s) institutional capacities to implement the BESP.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

Lesotho

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Lesotho

Activity URL

https://projects.worldbank.org/en/projects-operations/project-detail/P175065

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2022 - 2025

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
Lesotho Ministry of Social Development, Lesotho Ministry of Education and Training
Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
No
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Early childhood development
Quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Numeracy
  • STEM
Cross-cutting areas
  • Gender equality
  • Masculinities/boys
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments
Reducing economic barriers
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
Teaching
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
Cross-cutting goals
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms