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Bangladesh - Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (P106216)
Bangladesh - Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project (P106216)
SOUTH ASIA | Bangladesh | Education Global Practice |
IBRD/IDA | Specific Investment Loan | FY 2009 | Seq No: 17 | ARCHIVED on 15-Feb-2017 | ISR26875 |
Implementing Agencies:
Key Dates
Key Project Dates
Bank Approval Date:17-Mar-2009 Effectiveness Date:13-May-2009
Planned Mid Term Review Date:31-Jul-2011 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:08-Jan-2012
Original Closing Date:31-Dec-2013 Revised Closing Date:31-Dec-2018
Project Development Objectives
Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document)
The main objective of the project is to improve the quality and relevance of the teaching and research environment in highereducation institutions
through encouraging both innovation and accountability within universities and by enhancing the technicaland institutional capacity of the higher
education sector.
Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective?
No
PHRPDODEL
Components
Name
Promoting Academic Innovation:(Cost $89.40 M)
Building Institutional Capacity:(Cost $7.10 M)
Raising the Connectivity Capacity of the Higher Education Sector:(Cost $71.50 M)
Project Management, Communication and Monitoring and Evaluation:(Cost $11.00 M)
Establishment of Quality Assurance Mechanism:(Cost $27.00 M)
Overall Ratings
Name Previous Rating Current Rating
Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory
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Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Moderately Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory
Overall Risk Rating Moderate Moderate
Implementation Status and Key Decisions
Overall project implementation is Moderately Satisfactory based on the following key achievements during the reporting period: (i) 50 out of 135
Academic Innovation Fund (AIF) round 3 subprojects have been completed; (ii) a new Window for Fabrication Labs (Fab Labs) has been introduced and
eight universities have been awarded with the AIF for the establishment of Fab Labs; (iii) web-based Higher Education Management Information System
(HEMIS) is operational and annual report has been published using the HEMIS; (iv) the UGC Digital Library has increased subscription of e-journals and
e-books to 34,000+ and membership base to 72 public and private universities; (v) Bangladesh Research and Education Network (BdREN) has been
established with backbone transmission network of over 3,200 km; (vi) 35 universities have been connected and subscribed to BdREN; (vii) the Act for
the Accreditation Council Bangladesh (ACB) was approved by the Cabinet; (viii) Institutional Quality Assurance Cells (IQACs) have become operational
at 61 universities; and (ix) 120 out of 796 self-assessment exercises completed by IQACs and (x) a large volume of training and technical assistance
provided to the university academics on proposal writing and evaluation, project management and monitoring, fiduciary aspects, Intellectual Property,
university-industry collaboration, and quality assurance mechanism.
However, the implementation progress of the agreed actions in the last mission have been slow due to: (i) slow advancement of procurement activities
for AIF, BdREN and HEMIS, mainly from delays in recruitment of key fiduciary staff of HEQEPU; (ii) awareness and communication on project activities
remain inadequate; and (iii) inordinate delays in adjusting the advances and resolving the audit observations.
Risks
Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool
Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating
Political and Governance -- High High
Macroeconomic -- Moderate Moderate
Sector Strategies and Policies -- Moderate Moderate
Technical Design of Project or Program -- Low Low
Institutional Capacity for Implementation and
Sustainability
-- Moderate Moderate
Fiduciary -- Substantial Substantial
Environment and Social -- Moderate Moderate
Stakeholders -- Moderate Moderate
Other -- -- --
Overall -- Moderate Moderate
Results
Project Development Objective Indicators
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PHINDPDOTBL
Increased level of satisfaction of students and faculty staff regarding the quality of teaching and research environment, and of
employers regarding the relevance of teaching and research programs (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Student- 4.0
Student - 3.8 (15%) Student - 3.8 (15%)
(21%) Faculty -
Student- 3.3 Faculty - 2.9 Faculty - 4.1 (41%) Faculty - 4.1 (41%)
Value 4.0 (38%)
Employer - 3.0 Employer - 3.9 (30%) Employer - 3.9 (30%)
Employer - 4.2
(40%)
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDPDOTBL
All research and teaching and learning fund under UGC is distributed using an identified set of rules based on transparency
and competition (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Competitive
Revamped competitive Revamped competitive
funding
Value Funding is not competitive funding mechanism funding mechanism
mechanism is
implemented. implemented.
institutionalized
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2017
PHINDPDOTBL
Monthly average volume of inbound education/ research data traffic in BdREN (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 10 TB 29.4 TB 476.03 TB 100 TB
Date 30-Nov-2013 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDPDOTBL
Direct project beneficiaries (Number, Core)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 30,000.00 798,539.00 798,539.00 360,000.00
Date 30-Nov-2013 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDPDOTBL
Female beneficiaries (Percentage, Core Supplement)
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Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 28.50 33.10 43.10 28.50
PHINDPDOTBL
Number of IQAC established and produce self-assessment based on the established framework (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 18.00 15.00
Date 30-Nov-2013 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDPDOTBL
Number of academic publications produced by beneficiaries of AIF subprojects (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 65.00 194.00 244.00 150.00
Date 30-Nov-2013 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
Overall Comments
Intermediate Results Indicators
PHINDIRITBL
Teaching and Learning Percentage of fund utilization by teaching and learning sub-projects (Window 1): (i) Round 1, (ii) Round
2, (iii)Round 3 (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Round 1: 100% Round 1: 100% Round 1: 100
Round 1: 0, Round 2:0,
Value Round 2: 100% Round 2: 100% Round 2: 100
Round 3: 0
Round 3: 63% Round 3: 81% Round 3: 100
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
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Percentage of fund utilization by research sub-projects (Window 2): (i) Round 1, (ii) Round 2, (iii) Round 3 (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Round 1: 100% Round 1: 100% Round 1: 100
Round 1: 0, Round 2:0,
Value Round 2: 100% Round 2: 100% Round 2: 100
Round 3: 0
Round 3: 48% Round 3: 69% Round 3: 100
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDIRITBL
Percentage increase (cumulative) in doctoral level enrollment [%] under AIF sub-projects (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 195.00 195.00 100.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDIRITBL
Percentage of 39 eligible universities completed at least one self-assessment sub-project [%] (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 38.00 38.00 50.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDIRITBL
The mechanism for university-industry collaboration piloted and evaluated (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
A study
conducted to
The mechanism for
assess the
university-industry Second round of W4 Second round of W4
Value effectiveness of
collaboration does not awarded. awarded.
W4 in
exist.
establishing U-I
collaboration
Date 30-Nov-2013 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
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National HEMIS is in place and operational at UGC (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Annual
National HEMIS does not The 3rd Statistical The 3rd Statistical
Value statistical report
exist. Report published. Report published.
published
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 29-Dec-2018
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Proportion of institutions covered under awareness campaign [%] (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
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Number of universities (public and private) connected to BdREN (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 35.00 35.00 60.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDIRITBL
Number (‘000) of online journal title accessed and downloaded using UGC Digital Library on average per month) (Number,
Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 14.40 13.20 37.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
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QA Unit is fully functional and operational (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Draft Qualification Draft Qualification
Framework has been Framework has been QA docs
Value No QA unit exists
developed. developed. finalized
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
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HEQEP Unit is fully functional and operational (Text, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
PHINDIRITBL
Completion of baseline survey, follow-up survey at mid-term and end-line survey (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 3.00 3.00 3.00
Date 31-Mar-2009 10-Aug-2016 31-Dec-2016 31-Dec-2018
Overall Comments
Data on Financial Performance
Disbursements (by loan)
Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed
P106216 IDA-45440 Effective XDR 54.40 54.27 0.13 54.13 0.14 100%
P106216 IDA-53320 Effective XDR 81.50 81.50 0.00 48.04 33.46 59%
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Key Dates (by loan)
Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date
P106216 IDA-45440 Effective 17-Mar-2009 05-Apr-2009 13-May-2009 31-Dec-2013 31-Dec-2018
P106216 IDA-53320 Effective 03-Dec-2013 10-Feb-2014 12-Mar-2014 31-Dec-2018 31-Dec-2018
Cumulative Disbursements
Restructuring History
Level Approved on 21-Jan-2013 ,Level 2 Approved on 03-Nov-2013
Related Project(s)
P145749-BD Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project - AF
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