International Development Association to provide ten million dollars for education reform in Moldova

12:29 | 13.04.2018 Category: Social

Chisinau, 13 April /MOLDPRES/ - The cabinet of ministers has approved a draft law on the ratification of the agreement on additional financing for the Education Reform in Moldova Project, signed with the International Development Association in Chisinau on 12 March 2018. The agreement sees providing of financing worth about ten million dollars, to improve the quality and efficiency of the primary and secondary education in Moldova.

The additional financial resources will allow the Education, Culture and Research Ministry to extend the field of enforcement of the main activities, thus enhancing their impact of development and promoting their sustainability.

The additional financing will allow the Education, Culture and Research Ministry to finance supplementary activities, additionally to those already implemented, including the endowment of 160 primary and general secondary education institutions with school laboratories and information technologies and communications (ITC) equipment, as well as the endowment of 100 primary and general secondary education institutions with learning/teaching materials and special equipment for pupils with disabilities. The money will be used also for the development of the capacities of the National School Inspectorate and National Agency for Curriculum and Assessment, as well as for piloting a new mechanism of financing pre-school institutions.

Budgetary support amounting to about 40 million dollars was envisaged to fulfill 16 indicators, for the implementation of measures planned in the agreement on financing signed with the International Development Association, signed in Chisinau on 7 February 2013. According to the situation recorded on 1 March 2018, 12 out of 16 initial indicators have been carried out in all, for which 23.5 million dollars was provided of the initial loan. Three indicators provided for in the agreement were cancelled and financial resources worth 12 million dollars were re-allocated for the Social Investments Fund of Moldova to renovate 15 district schools.

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor L. Alcaza)

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