| Sector | education |
| Funding Agency | ADB |
| Project Location | Kathmandu |
| Province | Bagmati |
| Project Started Date | December 2018 |
| Project Completion Date | May 2022 |
| Project Status | Completed Projects |
| Clients | ADB |
Nepal’s current education sector plan, the School Sector Development Plan (SSDP, 2016–2021), is set to end in July 2021. The SSDP was developed to support the country to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in terms of providing Nepal’s citizens with the skills and capabilities to achieve these goals and ‘ensuring equitable and inclusive quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all’. With the SSDP setting to complete in July 2021, a new education sector plan is required to guide the strengthening of the education sector within the context of the new federal system of governance.
The production of ESP 2030 will as such be set in the context of the transition to a federal structure of governance. The ESP 2030 will be designed based on the following imperatives:
• Institutional capacity to be strengthened at all three levels of government as per the new legislative framework to strengthen their abilities to guide, plan, budget, coordinate, monitor, evaluate, report and carry out other technical and professional functions to implement ESP 2030.
• The needs and priorities identified at the local level and for national targets and benchmarks to be contextualized and their weight distributed based on local government baselines, context, capacity and resources.
• The international targets and goals that Nepal has committed to, especially SDG 4 and the government’s long-term vision and plans.
• A Sector Wide Approach (SWAp) with active engagement of a broad spectrum of development partners in sector dialogue and a pooled-budget support modality among seven of them with the government, guided by a Joint Financial Arrangement (JFA).
The main objective of the task included:
• Mid-term Review (March 2019)
(i) Based on the approved ToR for the Mid-term Review (MTR) developed jointly by the government and the development partners, develop a detailed methodology for undertaking mid-term review including scope of work, activities, duration and deliverables.
(ii) Based on the methodology approved by the team members nominated from local education group, undertake mid-term review through in-depth review of background documents, stakeholder consultation, and field visits on a sample basis.
(iii) Submit draft report for review and comments to local education group.
(iv) Incorporate comments and submit final document for approval by local education group.
(v) Support in the presentation and dissemination of the final mid-term review report, its main observations, outcomes and recommendations.
2. Annual Fiduciary Review (March 2019 for FY 2017/2018, August/September 2019 for FY 2018/2019, Aug/September for FY 2019/2020)
(i) Prepare detailed methodology for undertaking annual fiduciary review (three times for SSDP program period), which needs to be updated every year.
(ii) Undertake the fiduciary review upon endorsement of the methodology by the MOEST and JFPs.
(iii) Share the findings and develop key actions for the joint fiduciary committee to be taken forward while revising and updating the fiduciary management action plan on an annual basis.
3. Final Evaluation (Tentatively 2021)
(i) Based on the approved ToR developed jointly by the government and the development partners, develop a detailed methodology for undertaking joint evaluation including scope of work, activities, duration and deliverables.
(ii) Based on the approved methodology by the team members nominated from local education group, undertake joint evaluation through in-depth review of background documents, stakeholder consultation, and sample field visits.
(iii) Submit draft report for review and comments to local education group.
(iv) Incorporate comments and submit final document for approval by local education group.
4. Ad hoc Reviews as and when required
(i) Based on the approved ToR developed jointly by the government and the development partners, develop a detailed methodology for undertaking required review including scope of work, activities, duration and deliverables.
(ii) Based on the approved methodology by the team members nominated from local education group, undertake required review through in-depth review of background documents, stakeholder consultation, and sample field visits.
(iii) Submit draft report for review and comments to local education group.
(iv) Incorporate comments and submit final document for approval by local education group.
(v) Support in the presentation and dissemination of the final mid-term review report, its main observations, outcomes and recommendations.