Selected Projects with Girls' Education components approved between FY 2000 - 2004

Nepal - Education for All Project
The project supports the Nepal Education For All Program (NEFAP) during 2004-
2009. The project’s overall objective is to improve equitable access to and the quality of primary education, and build capacity of national and district agencies, and local communities to plan and manage education delivery. Using the EFA indicators, specific targets are to further increase the net enrollment rate from 81 percent to 96 percent; increase achievement in grade 5 from 40 to 60 percent, further decrease the gender and social gaps, and increase the literacy of the 15+ age group from 48 to 66 percent. Equitable access will be approached through measures to increase both the demand for education and the supply of services.

Tanzania - Secondary Education Development Program (SEDP) Project
Tanzania currently faces three main challenges in secondary education: increasing access, raising quality, and reducing costs. Tanzania has one of the lowest secondary gross enrollment ratios anywhere in the world. Only about seven percent of the relevant age group attends secondary education, compared with an average of nearly 30 percent for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. This is the result of a deliberate policy after independence to restrict access to secondary education and limit provision to public schools. The SEDP project supports reforms by the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and aims to: (1) increase the proportion of the relevant age group completing secondary education, (2) improve learning outcomes of students, especially among girls, and (3) enable the public administration to manage secondary education more effectively.

Afghanistan - Emergency Education Rehabilitation and Development Project
The overall objective of the Project is to selectively support the Government of Afghanistan's emergency education program. Specifically, the project will help: (a) increase access to education opportunities in the formal and non-formal systems for under-served groups, especially women and girls; (b) reform education management at all levels, in partnership with civil society, NGOs and the private sector; and (c) introduce modern information technologies for communications and distance learning.

The World Bank maintains a searchable database of all Bank projects with Girls’ Education components approved between 2000 and 2004: http://www.worldbank.org/projects