{"id":39778,"date":"2019-08-02T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T15:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-world-bank-sign-us-200-million-to-boost\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T09:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:55:00","slug":"rwanda-world-bank-sign-us-200-million-to-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-world-bank-sign-us-200-million-to-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, World Bank sign US$ 200 million to boost quality basic education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana, the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning and Yasser El-Gammal the World Bank Country Manager signed the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The main objective of the project is to improve teachers\u2019 competency, student retention, and learning<\/p>\n<p>The project consists of three main components which include: Enhancing teacher effectiveness for improved student learning; through improving teachers\u2019 English language proficiency and digital skills, support professional development of math and science teachers in upper primary through lower secondary schools; Reducing overcrowding and distance to schools (This project will finance the construction of 11,000 furnished classrooms and approximately 14,680 latrines, which is 50 percent of the required school infrastructure.)<\/p>\n<p>The third component is related to strengthening institutional capacity to support teaching and learning<\/p>\n<p>Minister Uzziel Ndagijimana noted that the project is consistent with the education sector&#8217;s Strategic Plan (2018\u20132024) that gives priority to improvements in learning outcomes and completion rates for basic education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda intends to become a knowledge-based economy and to achieve this objective, a strong human capital base is critical,\u201d Minister Uzziel said.<\/p>\n<p>Yasser El-Gammal, the World Bank Country Manager in Rwanda said that without a supportive school environment that includes an adequate number of classrooms and latrines, Rwandan students are limited in the amount they are able to learn. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dedicated efforts of the Government of Rwanda with support from many partners contribute towards student learning,\u201d he underscored.<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank has a prior history of engagement in the education sector in Rwanda, but the proposed project will mark its first comprehensive support for basic education. <\/p>\n<p>This program will benefit from the recent 2018 World Development Report on Education, which provides insights for improving the delivery of education services in challenging contexts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31156 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20190801-wa0011_1.jpg\" alt=\"Dr.Uzziel Ndagijimana and Yasser El-Gammal signed the agreement in Kigali. RBA\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Rwanda and the World Bank yesterday signed a US $200 million (Approximately Rwf 180 billion) credit financing agreement to support Rwanda\u2019s quality basic education for the human capital development project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39778"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39778"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}