Monitoring, assessment and support to EU funded Education and complementary programs by the Ministry of Education, UN Agencies and NGOs

Detailed description of project Back

Current EU support is directed towards basic education, youth programmes, vocational and higher education, primarily through a budget support programme (EUR 30 million from 2011-2014) and a capacity development programme (EUR 3 million). An additional EUR 35 million are foreseen in support to the Employment and Technical and Vocational Education and Training Reform Programme, out of which EUR 29 million are committed to budget support. Since the Syrian refugee crisis has put a considerable burden on the Jordanian education system, support is provided to the Ministry of Education (MoE), together with UNESCO and UNICEF, to finance basic education for Syrian pupils in camps and Jordanian host communities. Such complementary support (provided through UN agencies) amounts to EUR 35 million from 2012-2015. In total, EUR 65 million have been invested in the Jordanian education sector.

Specific attention will be given to

• Assessing the EU Support to the Second Phase of the Education Reform (EUSSPER);
• Assessing the EU support towards Syrian refugees;
• The definition of a TVET strategy;
• The development of recommendations for a teacher induction programme;
• The provision of recommendations for future cooperation programming in the field of education (including adequate strategies for targeting support to Syrian refugees).

Type of services provided

PROMAN provides the services of the Team Leader/Education Expert and the Monitoring Expert; while Particip provides the services of an engineer-architect and B&S Europe of an (TVET)-Education Strategy Expert.The assignment is implemented in 5 missions in which the following tasks are to be performed:

• Formulation of a monitoring methodology;
• Field verification missions to assess the benefits of EU support towards Syrian refugees;
• Development of data base for capturing data on field visits;
• Assessing EMIS and providing recommendations for improvement;
• Assessing progress of construction and procurement process of school buildings;
• Providing technical advice to key elements of education reform for the knowledge economy;
• Detailed reporting.

PROMAN manages the assignment and provides backstopping and quality control.