Preparing Urban and Social Development Projects - Xi'an Early Childhood Education
Client: Asian Development Bank Duration: 2020 Location: Xi'an City, PRC Contract Value: USD 331,970 Catalogue: Social Service Project Description Xi’an has made notable progress in developing early childhood education (ECE) especially over the pastdecade while there are several constrains in the current ECE, including insufficient kindergarten seats, geographically imbalanced distribution of high quality public kindergartens, a shortage of qualified ECE teachers and insufficient in-service training opportunities, a need for better financing and cost sharing mechanisms, lack of regulation and supervision of ECE, a deficiency of innovation in the curriculum, etc. This is a results based lending (RBL) program, which is a particularly appropriate model for promoting high quality ECE development and large-scale systemic teacher training as shown from other RBL experience. The program will deepen Xi’an’s ECE institutional reforms and enhance the development impact and sustainability through capacity development and systematic improvement. The program is also aligned with ADB strategy 2030 focusing on addressing remaining poverty, reducing inequalities and accelerating progress in gender equality. There are four outputs (or components) of this project: (i) access to climate-friendly inclusive kindergartens increased, (ii) ECE teaching and management capacity developed, (iii) ECE financing, regulation, and supervision mechanisms strengthened, (iv) innovation to improve ECE quality promoted and disseminated. Services Provided by NAREE NAREE has conducted several detailed assessments and due diligence to prepare an ECE results based lending program in China. Seven assessments have been prepared by NAREE for the proposed RBL program, including:
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Social Services
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