The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA | Belarus | Education Global Practice | IBRD/IDA | Investment Project Financing | FY 2020 | Seq No: 1 | ARCHIVED on 20-Aug-2020 | ISR43129 | Implementing Agencies: Ministry of Education, Republic of Belarus Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date: 20-May-2020 Effectiveness Date: -- Planned Mid Term Review Date: -- Actual Mid-Term Review Date: Original Closing Date: 31-Dec-2025 Revised Closing Date: 31-Dec-2025 pdoTable Project Development Objectives Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The DO is to improve the teaching and learning environment and information on the labor market relevance of higher education. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No Components Table Name Modernization of the teaching and learning environment:(Cost $97.00 M) Innovations in teaching and learning:(Cost $8.50 M) Quality assurance:(Cost $3.00 M) Project management:(Cost $0.50 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO -- Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) -- Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating -- Moderate Implementation Status and Key Decisions This is the initial Implementation Status and Results Report for this Project, which was approved on May 20, 2020. It reports on the progress by the Ministry of Education (MoE) towards fulfillment of the project effectiveness conditions, which relate to the adoption of the Project Operations Manual and issue of the Ministerial Order on Project effectiveness. The MoE is progressing well with these conditions and the Project is likely to become effective within the required 120 days from the date of the signing of the Project Loan Agreement (June 23, 2020). 8/20/2020 Page 1 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance Moderate -- Substantial Macroeconomic Substantial -- Substantial Sector Strategies and Policies Moderate -- Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program Moderate -- Moderate Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Substantial -- Substantial Sustainability Fiduciary Moderate -- Moderate Environment and Social Moderate -- Moderate Stakeholders Substantial -- Substantial Other -- -- Moderate Overall Moderate -- Moderate Results PDO Indicators by Objectives / Outcomes Modernization of the teaching and learning environment IN00881895 ►Number of higher education institutions with improved research facilities (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 18.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Number of institutions selected under the project that have set up or modernized laboratory and research Comments: facilities; or (ii) outfitted classrooms with modern educational equipment; or (iii) set up or modernized centers for shared use of unique educational and scientific equipment. Innovations in teaching and learning IN00881911 ►Percentage of Bachelor’s programs with established learning outcomes (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 8/20/2020 Page 2 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) Percentage of Bachelor’s degree programs that have been improved with established learning outcomes Comments: under the project. IN00881913 ►Percentage of Master’s programs with established learning outcomes (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 100.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Percentage of Master’s degree programs that have been improved with established learning outcomes Comments: under the project. IN00881914 ►A national system to regularly trace higher education graduates (graduate tracer system – GTS) is established (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No GTS -- No GTS GTS fully established Date 29-Aug-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 The GTS model that has been developed through an earlier grant. The GTS model will be piloted in Year 1 with graduates’ databases being developed in HEIs. In Year 2, the first cohort of graduates will be Comments: studied, using the new GTS, with data being published.In Year 3, the second cohort will be studied, using the new GTS, with data being published. In Year 4, two cohorts will be studied in parallel and with data being published. In Year 5, the GTS will be fully established. Quality assurance IN00881912 ►The newly established Belarus quality assurance agency is a full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) (Yes/No, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value No -- No Yes Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 30-May-2025 The quality assurance agency, which manages its resources and operations independently, is in place and operating with sufficient financial and human resources. The agency is a full member of ENQA (http://www.enqa.eu/) As indicated in the ENQA statutes approved by the General Assembly in 2015, it is a condition of membership that all members of ENQA undergo an external review at least once every five Comments: years. Before being accepted or being re-confirmed as a member, an applicant agency must satisfy to the Board that it meets the criteria for membership: the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG).” https://enqa.eu/index.php/enqa- agencies/membership-criteria/ Overall Comments PDO The Project was approved on May 20, 2020 and it is not effective yet. Intermediate Results Indicators by Components 8/20/2020 Page 3 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) Modernization of the teaching and learning environment IN00881916 ►Number of targeted higher education institutions with improved teaching and learning facilities (Sub-component 1.2.) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 18.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Number of higher education institutions selected under the project (eighteen [18]) that have been Comments: rehabilitated, renovated, set up or modernized with centers for shared use of unique educational and scientific equipment. IN00881918 ►Number of entrepreneurial university (“University 3.0”) projects completed out of the targeted entrepreneurial (“3.0”) projects (Sub- component 1.2.) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 7.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Number of projects developed by entrepreneurial higher education institutions (“University 3.0”) selected under the project (seven [7]) that have been completed to: (i) improve the overall conditions for teaching Comments: and learning; (ii) create a barrier-free environment for learning and improving access and working and learning conditions of staff and students with disabilities by creating an inclusive learning and working environment; and (ii) to improve energy efficiency of buildings and premises. Innovations in teaching and learning IN00881915 ►Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning (Number, Corporate) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 300,000.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Aug-2025 IN00881920 Students benefiting from direct interventions to enhance learning - Female (Number, Corporate Supplement) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 150,000.00 IN00881921 ►Beneficiaries that assess that project investments reflected their needs (Sub-component 2.1. and 2.2.) (Percentage, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 90.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Aug-2025 Annual online student surveys through “University 3.0” program: The “University 3.0” program is piloted in Comments: 7 universities and aims to develop entrepreneurial skills of students through courses and events promoting and supporting entrepreneurship. The program includes annual online students’ surveys 8/20/2020 Page 4 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) assessing students’ opinions on the learning environment for entrepreneurship. In addition, the project will use the surveys to gather female and male students’ views on changes in the general learning environment and enable them to make recommendations. Satisfaction surveys would be designed to collect feedback from: (i) students benefiting from improved degrees, and (ii) staff and employers benefiting from all project interventions. IN00881922 ►Number of students who participate in national and international competitions related to entrepreneurial activities (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target (Increase from Value 0.00 -- 0.00 baseline). Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Students who have benefitted from upgraded entrepreneurial programs under the project who participate Comments: in national and international competitions. This indicator will also inform on the number of female entrepreneurs who participate. IN00881923 Of which number of female students (Text, Custom Breakdown) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target (Increase from Value 0.00 -- 0.00 baseline) Date 28-Aug-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 IN00881924 ►Number of new twinning projects involving Belarus and foreign universities (Sub-component 2.2.) (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 21.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 The project will support twinning projects i.e. close cooperation in teaching and/or research but potentially Comments: also governance, quality assurance, etc. involving Belarus and foreign universities. IN00881925 ►Number of Master’s students participating in mobility programs supported under the project (Number, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 250.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Comments: Number of Master’s students who participate in mobility programs supported under the project. Quality assurance IN00881917 ►External quality assurance agency in place and operational (Sub-component 3.1.) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target External Quality No standalone QA No standalone QA Value -- Assurance Agency agency. agency. (QAA) in place and, 8/20/2020 Page 5 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) operational and in accordance with European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area (ESG). Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 A quality assurance agency, in accordance with ESG and which manages its resources and operations Comments: independently, is in place and operating with sufficient financial and human resources. IN00881919 ►Number of training events on internal quality assurance (Sub-component 3.2.) (Text, Custom) Baseline Actual (Previous) Actual (Current) End Target Value 0.00 -- 0.00 10.00 Date 14-Jun-2019 -- 11-Aug-2020 31-Dec-2025 Comments: Training events that support universities in developing their internal quality assurance arrangements. Overall Comments IR The Project was approved on May 20, 2020 and it is not effective yet. Performance-Based Conditions Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed % Disbursed Not P167992 IBRD-90560 USD 109.90 109.90 0.00 0.00 109.90 0% Effective Key Dates (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date Not P167992 IBRD-90560 20-May-2020 -- -- 31-Dec-2025 31-Dec-2025 Effective Cumulative Disbursements 8/20/2020 Page 6 of 7 The World Bank Implementation Status & Results Report Belarus Higher Education Modernization Project (P167992) 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. 8/20/2020 Page 7 of 7