During
his visit, Saavedra will meet with Hon. Joyce Ndalichako, the Minister
of Education, Science and Technology, high-level officials in the
President’s Office – Regional
Administration and Local Government, as well as representatives of the
private sector, to discuss the World Bank’s support to education and how
the sector’s challenges are being addressed.
The
Senior Director will also co-host, together with Prof. William
Anangisye, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Dar es Salaam, the
global launch
of a report titled Facing Forward: Schooling for Learning in Africa;
which is a comprehensive analysis of the prospects for countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa to achieve good-quality basic education for all. The
regional study complements the World
Bank’s recent World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise,
which was released in September 2017 and argued that without learning,
education will fail to deliver on its promise to eliminate extreme
poverty and create shared
opportunity and prosperity for all.
Saavedra’s
trip will also extend to Dodoma where he will visit and hold
discussions with students and teachers at a primary school and secondary
school in the region.
In the
Africa region, Tanzania is the third largest recipient of support from
the World Bank’s International Development Assistance (IDA), and an
important partner of the World
Bank in the effort to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity
globally. Active education projects financed by the World Bank include
the Education Program-for-Results (EPforR); the Education and Skills for
Productive Jobs (ESPJ) Program-for-Results;
the Eastern and Southern Africa Centers of Excellence Project (ACE II)
and the Zanzibar Improving Students Prospects Project (ZISP), together
amounting to US$381 million.
- The Education Program-for-Results (US$202 million) focuses on improving education quality in Tanzanian primary and secondary schools.
- The Education and Skills for Productive Jobs Program-for-Results (US$120 million) seeks to strengthen the institutional capacity of the skills development system and promote the expansion and quality of labor market driven skills development opportunities in tourism and hospitality; agriculture, agribusiness and agri-processing; transport and logistics; construction; information and communications technology (ICT) and energy.
- The East and Southern Africa Higher Education Centers of Excellence Project (for Tanzania: US$24 million) objective is to strengthen selected Eastern and Southern African higher education institutions in eight participating countries, Tanzania, Malawi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Mozambique, to deliver quality post-graduate education and build collaborative research capacity in the regional priority areas (industry, agriculture, health, education and applied statistics). Overall, the project covers 24 Africa Centers of Excellencein the region. In Tanzania, ACE II includes support to four research centers, two each at Sokoine University in Morogoro and Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha.
- The Zanzibar Improving Students Prospects Program (US$35 million) seeks to improve the quality of instruction and learning environment in targeted grades in upper primary and lower secondary (Standard 5 to Form 2) and subjects (Math, Science, and English). The program focuses on four key areas: (a)transforming the way Math, Science and English is taught; (b) improving school autonomy, equipping them with resources and incentives to improve the quality of instruction and learning environment; (c) providing learning facilities and resources to classrooms and learning spaces for improved Math, Science and English; and (d) transforming the national education system – including examination reforms, enhanced student support at the school level; and improved data systems and project monitoring and evaluation.
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