Kyrgyz Republic - Third Global Partnership for Education Project
Ratings of the Third Global Partnership for Education Project for Kyrgyz Republic were as follows: outcome was highly satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was high. Some of the lessons learned include: (i) the simplicity of the project design and the PDO increased the chances of the project’s success, as the project followed a well-focused results chain of outcome indicators and outputs to monitor equity, quality and efficiency of the interventions; (ii) proactive communication and advocacy played an important role in increasing awareness of the project’s objectives and key interventions to ensure active participation by various beneficiary groups (parents, teachers, school administration, and methodologists); (iii) class observation tool changed the perception toward the assessment of teachers’ practices and shifted the paradigm among teachers from complying with requirements to seeking and incorporating the feedback into their daily practice; and (iv) community-based preschools are a low-cost and effective alternative when the Government is determined to provide equitable access to education for children in remote, impoverished areas. (Kyrgyz Republic)