The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report
Honduras Early Childhood Education Improvement Project (P169161)
Honduras Early Childhood Education Improvement Project (P169161)
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN | Honduras | Education Global Practice |
IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2020 | Seq No: 3 | ARCHIVED on 06-Jun-2021 | ISR46141 |
Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Education (Secretaría de Educación - SE), Ministry of Finance (Secretaría de Finanzas, SEFIN)
Key Dates
Key Project Dates
Bank Approval Date: 19-Mar-2020 Effectiveness Date: 11-Nov-2020
Planned Mid Term Review Date: 31-Jan-2023 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:
Original Closing Date: 31-Jul-2025 Revised Closing Date: 31-Jul-2025
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Project Development Objectives
Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document)
The objectives of the Project are to improve (a) SE’s institutional capacity for preschool management; (b) teaching practices of preschool teachers
and Educators; and (c) physical learning environments in preschools serving children in Targeted Areas.
Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective?
No
Components Table
Name
Component 1: Strengthening SE’s Institutional Capacity for Preschool Management:(Cost $5.75 M)
Component 2: Updating Curricular Design for all Preschool Service Modalities and Improving Teaching
Practices in CEPB and CCEPREB:(Cost $17.15 M)
Component 3: Improving Physical Learning Environments in Selected Preschools Serving Children in
Targeted Areas:(Cost $14.30 M)
Component 4: Project Management and Evaluation:(Cost $2.30 M)
Component 5: Contingency Emergency Response Component
Overall Ratings
Name Previous Rating Current Rating
Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Satisfactory
Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory
Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial
Implementation Status and Key Decisions
The Project was formally launched on March 9, 2021. The Ministry of Education (MoE) has filled nearly all positions in the Project Implementation
Unit (PIU). The Bank continues to provide technical assistance activities to MoE to support Project implementation, including in the areas of
statistical capacity, human resource system strengthening, infrastructure standards and designs, preschool quality standards, and mapping of
actors in the early childhood system. In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and other needs arising from Hurricanes Eta and Iota, MoE
and the Bank have agreed to adjust the Project budget and procurement plan, within the existing scope of the Project and without a formal
restructuring, to support: (1) the reproduction and distribution of learning materials for preschool students; (2) the design of professional
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development modules for preschool teachers and educators, along with a strategy to be implemented remotely during the pandemic-induced school
closures; (3) the procurement of virtual platform for Subdirectorate of Preschool Education and Departmental Coordinators of Preschool Education;
(4) the purchase of electronic devices for preschool teachers and educators; and (5) the rehabilitation of preschool centers affected by Hurricanes
Eta and Iota, based on specific targeting criteria.
Risks
Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool
Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating
Political and Governance Substantial Substantial Substantial
Macroeconomic Substantial Substantial Substantial
Sector Strategies and Policies Substantial Substantial Substantial
Technical Design of Project or Program Substantial Substantial Substantial
Institutional Capacity for Implementation and
Substantial Substantial Substantial
Sustainability
Fiduciary High Substantial Substantial
Environment and Social Moderate Moderate Moderate
Stakeholders Moderate Moderate Moderate
Other Moderate Substantial Substantial
Overall Substantial Substantial Substantial
Results
PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes
Improve SE's Institutional Capacity for Preschool Management
IN00975390
►1. Preschool Education Management Model (PEM) implemented at school-level (Depth indicator) (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 55.00
Date 09-Jul-2019 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 24-Jun-2024
This indicator tracks progress in the depth of school-level implementation of the Preschool Education
Management Model (PEM). Depth refers to the intensity of implementation in terms of the percentage of
visited preschool centers that carry out at least 70% of the dimensions of the PEM. The PEM entails
Comments: organizational guidelines for the efficient management and administration of the subsector, as well as the
necessary standards to provide quality education in preschool classrooms. PEM dimensions could include
inter alia: 1) management and school norms; 2) personnel; 3) infrastructure and physical environment; 4)
equipment and materials; 5) curriculum; 6) pedagogical practices; 7) assessment of child development
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and learning; 8) parental and community participation. The relevant dimensions in the PEM will
incorporate material on climate change adaptation. The PEM will be implemented gradually throughout
the course of the Project. The PEM will be approved in year 2 of the Project, piloted in year 3, and fully
implemented in years 4 and 5.
Improved Teaching Practices of Participating Preschool Teachers and Educators Nationwide
IN00975388
►2. Participating preschool teachers and Educators with satisfactory teaching practices (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 55.00
Date 09-Jul-2019 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 10-Jun-2024
This indicator measures the percentage of preschool teachers and Educators participating in the In-
service Training Program of preschool education service delivery in Honduras that have satisfactory
Comments: teaching practices, as measured using a classroom observation tool. The indicator will be measured
annually after the beginning of the In-service Training Program. Targets will be cumulative.
Improved Physical Learning Environments in Preschools Serving Children in Targeted Areas
IN00975389
►3. Classrooms of preschool education centers in Targeted Areas with physical environments that meet quality conditions to promote
learning (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 224.00
Date 09-Jul-2019 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 07-Jun-2024
This indicator tracks the construction, rehabilitation or expansion of classrooms in the beneficiary schools
to verify that they meet the minimum conditions to promote learning, as established by the SE. The
Comments: minimum standards of physical quality will be defined at the latest during Year 1 of the Project. Targets
are cumulative
Intermediate Results Indicators by Components
Component 1: Strengthening SE’s Institutional Capacity for Preschool Management
IN00975393
►IRI 1: PEM approved and implemented at school level (Breadth indicator) (Text, Custom, PBC)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Comprehensive
Preschool Education
Management Model
designed (C-PEM).
The C-PEM articulates
Value No PEM No PEM No PEM
SE’s PEM, which is
internal to the
preschool education
sub-sector, with other
education levels (initial
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and basic education),
other sectors (health,
nutrition, social
inclusion, etc.) and
other more external
actors.
Date 19-Sep-2019 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 02-Sep-2024
This indicator tracks progress in the design, approval and breadth of implementation of the PEM
nationwide. Breadth of implementation of the PEM refers to how widespread throughout the country the
dimensions of the PEM have been implemented, which will be determined by assessing progress in each
of the 4 regions (MoE uses 4 regions as administrative divisions of the country's departments). The PEM
will include the organizational guidelines for efficient management and administration of the subsector, as
Comments: well as the necessary standards to provide quality education in preschool classrooms. PEM dimensions
could include, inter alia: 1) management and school norms; 2) personnel; 3) infrastructure and physical
environment; 4) equipment and materials; 5) curriculum; 6) pedagogical practices; 7) assessment of child
development and learning; 8) parental and community participation. The relevant dimensions in the PEM
will incorporate material on climate change adaptation.
IN00975397
►IRI 2: Strengthened COMDEs and Activities carried out in Targeted Departments (Text, Custom, PBC)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
All of the COMDEs in
the 6 most
No accredited disadvantaged
Value No accredited COMDEs No accredited COMDEs
COMDEs departments trained in
the Strengthening
Program
Date 01-Apr-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 01-Jul-2024
This indicator tracks progress in the design of the Program to Strengthen Municipal Councils for Education
Development (COMDEs, as per their Spanish acronym) to improve the quality of preschool education
(Strengthening Program) in the 6 most disadvantaged (targeted) departments, which were identified
based on equity criteria. Additionally, the indicator also tracks progress in activities to improve the quality
Comments: of preschool education by the accredited COMDEs in these 6 most disadvantaged departments. The Sub-
directorate of Preschool Education and the Sub-directorate of Community and School Participation will
ensure the Strengthening Program is designed with all its modules and including the process for the
COMDEs to be accredited in the program.
IN00975400
►IRI 3: Strengthened human resource capacity for preschool education management at the central and departmental levels (Text, Custom,
PBC)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Functional Review
Design and official
Functional Review Functional Review including assessment
approval by SE of a
including assessment of including assessment of of organizational
sustainable and long-
organizational structure organizational structure structure and capacity
Value term human resources
and capacity of the and capacity of the of the human
strategy for public
human resources for human resources for resources for
preschool teachers
preschool management. preschool management. preschool
and Educators
management.
Date 09-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 03-Jul-2023
Comments: This indicator tracks progress in the strengthening of the human resource capacity for preschool
management at the central and decentralized levels, including the Regional Training Centers, to provide
preschool education services. In particular, this indicator will focus on (a) reorganizing the Sub-directorate
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for Preschool Education (SDGEPB, as per its Spanish acronym) functions; (b) ensuring that there is
sufficient and qualified staff at the different levels of the SDGEPB; and (c) designing and approving a
sustainable and long-term human resources strategy for public preschool teachers and Educators, as
specified in the verification protocols and in line with a functional review conducted by the World Bank in
May 2019 and a proposal to strengthen the human resources capacity for preschool management
presented to SE in September 2019.
IN00975403
►IRI 4: Reformulation of SIPLAE and SACE (Yes/No, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value No No No Yes
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator is meant to confirm the fulfillment of the review, update and automation of MoE's systems
Comments: for education statistics and strategic planning, operations, monitoring and evaluation.
Component 2: Updating the Curricular Design & Improving Teaching Practices in Preschool Modalities
IN00975391
►IRI 5: Design and improvement of the curriculum, curricular tools, and learning materials (Yes/No, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value No No No Yes
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator tracks completion pf the design and improvement of the curriculum, curricular tools, and
learning materials, so that they take into account themes of cultural diversity, mother tongue, and inclusion
of indigenous and Afro-descendant children. The revised preschool curricular design will include content
on gender and on resilience to violence, as well as incorporate material on climate change adaptation.
Comments:
The validation workshops of the curricula and curricular tools will be carried out with the participation of
technicians from the central and decentralized level, including among them: Preschool Coordinators,
Deputy Directors of Curriculum, Regional Center technicians and teachers.
IN00975395
►IRI 6: Centers with the adequate amount of curricular tools (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 65.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the percentage of ECCE centers that have an adequate number of curricular
tools. Curricular tools include: standards, programs, didactic sequences, training modules for teachers
Comments: and working notebook and evaluation appraisal for students. The adequate amount of tools will be defined
with the design and approval of the PEM in Year 2. Yearly targets for this indicator are cumulative.
IN00975398
►IRI 7: Centers with adequate learning materials (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
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Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 80.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the percentage of ECCE centers with adequate learning materials. Materials
include fungible material and material for learning environments. The adequate amount of learning
Comments: materials will be defined with the design and approval of the PEM in Year 2. Yearly targets for this
indicator are cumulative.
IN00975402
►IRI 8: Certified preschool teachers and Educators with improvements in their customized professional development plan, and Educators
receiving bonus payments for certification (Text, Custom, PBC)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
470 teachers &
Educators certified
(3rd cohort); 50% of
certified teachers and
Educators (3rd cohort)
No certified teachers or No certified teachers or No certified teachers
Value with accredited
Educators Educators or Educators
improvements in their
customized
professional
development plan
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator tracks progress in the development of the In-service Training Program and in the
certification of preschool teachers and Educators in that Program. The indicator also tracks progress in
the improvement of certified teachers and Educators in their customized professional development plans
following certification. Certification means that they have successfully completed all of the requirements of
the In-service Teacher and Educator Training Program focused on pedagogical practices and core
curricular content. A customized professional development plan will be developed jointly between the
Comments: teacher or Educator and her trainers and coaches at the end of the Program. Teachers’ coaches or
trainers will assess progress in the implementation of the plan, which will be conducted within 4 months of
the teachers’ certification. This assessment of progress will lead to an “accreditation of improvement”
whenever the trainer, coach or other appropriate personnel (e.g. a trained enumerator) determines there
have been improvements in a teacher’s professional development plan. Additionally under this indicator,
Educators who were certified should receive bonus payments associated with being certified in the
Diplomado.
IN00975405
►IRI 9: Preschool teachers and Educators that receive in-service training focused on pedagogical practices (Percentage, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 50.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the percentage of preschool teachers and Educators involved in the three
modalities of preschool education service delivery in Honduras that receive in-service training focused on
Comments:
pedagogical practices.
Component 3:Improving Physical Learning Environments in Preschools Serving Children in TargetedAreas
IN00975392
►IRI 10: Pre-investment education infrastructure studies for preschool developed (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
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Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 300.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the number of completed project profiles of civil works for preschool education
centers that will be carried out under the Project. The 300 pre-investment education infrastructure studies
selected from the 6 targeted departments will be carried out in two stages. Once the pre-investment
Comments:
studies have been completed, the preschool education centers will be selected for intervention by the
Project. Yearly targets are cumulative.
IN00975396
►IRI 11: Number of training workshops held on school maintenance in beneficiary schools. (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 224.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the number of training workshops on preventive maintenance held for the
education community (teachers, parents, and key community actors) in school centers receiving works
Comments: under the Project. These workshops will emphasize the importance of the community’s support in the
preventive maintenance of education centers, the need to carry out activities to generate funds for the
sustainability of the works, and the importance of environmental and social care.
IN00975399
►IRI 12: Centers in targeted municipalities selected based on the targeting criteria (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 300.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator measures the number of preschool education centers selected in the most disadvantaged
departments of Honduras, as determined by the defined targeting criteria, which involves equity and other
Comments:
considerations to carry out pre-investment studies. Yearly targets are cumulative.
Corporate and Strategic Indicators
IN00975394
►IRI 13. Citizen Engagement Indicator: PEM - Teacher satisfaction survey – feedback received informs the future implementation of the
PEM (Yes/No, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value No No No Yes
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator will track the incorporation of questions to assess teachers’ satisfaction with the
implementation of the PEM to the larger survey that will measure progress in the implementation of the
Comments: PEM. The indicator will be met once the survey is administered to the teachers in the public preschools
across the country where the PEM is first implemented. The feedback received through the survey will
inform the future implementation of the PEM.
IN00975401
►IRI 14. Number of teachers and Educators trained on unit on gender-appropriate pedagogy within the In-service Teacher and Educator
Training Program (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
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Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,830.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator will monitor the number of teachers and Educators that are trained on a unit on gender-
Comments: appropriate pedagogy in the In-service Teacher and Educator Training Program. The unit will be designed
during the development of the Diplomado. Yearly targets are cumulative.
IN00975404
►IRI 15. Number of teachers and Educators trained on unit on adaptation measures for climate change within the In-service Teacher and
Educator Training Program (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,830.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator will monitor the number of teachers and Educators that are trained on a unit on adaptation
Comments: measures for climate change within the in the In-service Teacher and Educator Training Program. The
unit will be designed during the development of the Diplomado.
IN00975406
►IRI 16. Number of teachers and Educators trained on unit on prevention measures for school crime and violence within the In-service
Teacher and Educator Training Program (Number, Custom)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,830.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
This indicator will monitor the number of teachers and Educators that are trained on a unit on prevention
Comments: measures for school crime and violence in the In-service Teacher and Educator Training Program. The
unit will be designed during the development of the Diplomado. Yearly targets are cumulative.
IN00975407
►Teachers recruited or trained (Number, Corporate)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,700.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
IN00975408
Teachers recruited or trained - Female (RMS requirement) (Number, Corporate Supplement)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,645.00
IN00975409
Number of teachers trained (Number, Corporate Breakdown)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,700.00
Date 31-Jul-2020 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
IN00978754
►Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning (Number, Corporate)
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Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 -- 0.00 178,400.00
Date 07-Apr-2021 -- 03-Jun-2021 31-Jul-2025
IN00978755
Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement)
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target
Value 0.00 -- 0.00 89,200.00
Performance-Based Conditions
IN00975410
►PBC 1 IRI 1: PEM approved and implemented at school level (Breadth indicator) (Text, Outcome, 1,385,000.00, 0.00%)
Y4: 48 months after
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) effectiveness
Value No PEM No PEM No PEM --
Date -- 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 --
IN00975411
►PBC 2 IRI 2: Strengthened COMDEs and Activities carried out in Targeted Departments (Text, Intermediate Outcome, 580,000.00,
0.00%)
Y4: 48 months after
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) effectiveness
Value No accredited COMDEs No accredited COMDEs No accredited COMDEs --
Date -- 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 --
IN00975412
►PBC 3 IRI 3: Strengthened human resource capacity for preschool education management at the central and departmental levels (Text,
Process, 1,700,000.00, 0.00%)
Y4: 48 months after
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) effectiveness
Functional Review Functional Review Functional Review
including assessment of including assessment of including assessment of
organizational structure and organizational structure organizational structure
Value --
capacity of the human and capacity of the and capacity of the human
resources for preschool human resources for resources for preschool
management. preschool management. management.
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Date -- 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 --
IN00975413
►PBC 4 IRI 8: Certified preschool teachers and Educators with improvements in their customized professional development plan, and
Educators receiving bonus payments for certification (Text, Intermediate Outcome, 2,300,000.00, 5.82%)
Y4: 48 months after
Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) effectiveness
No certified teachers or No certified teachers or No certified teachers or
Value --
Educators Educators Educators
Date -- 01-Dec-2020 03-Jun-2021 --
Data on Financial Performance
Disbursements (by loan)
Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed
P169161 IDA-65600 Effective USD 30.00 30.00 0.00 0.17 29.83 0.6%
P169161 TF-B2218 Effective USD 9.50 9.50 0.00 0.00 9.50 0%
Key Dates (by loan)
Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date
P169161 IDA-65600 Effective 19-Mar-2020 16-Jun-2020 11-Nov-2020 31-Jul-2025 31-Jul-2025
P169161 TF-B2218 Effective 19-Mar-2020 16-Jun-2020 11-Nov-2020 31-Jul-2025 31-Jul-2025
Cumulative Disbursements
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PBC Disbursement
Achievement Disbursed amount in Disbursement %
PBC ID PBC Type Description Coc PBC Amount
Status Coc for PBC
Restructuring History
There has been no restructuring to date.
Related Project(s)
There are no related projects.
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