MEXICO
SECTOR: Education
PROJECT NAME: Integrated Compensatory Education Program
(846/OC-ME)
TOTAL COST: $653 million
FINANCING:
IDB $393 million
LOCAL $260 million
DATE OF APPROVAL: December 7, 1994
GENERAL DESCRIPTION:The main objective of this program is to help raise the
standard of living of approximately three million
Mexican citizens born between the years 1990 and 2005 to
families in the lowest income group through improvements
in primary education levels. The specific objectives of
the program are to: (a) increase the access of the most
disadvantaged children to primary education and raise
their level of education attainment in nine selected
states; (b) contribute to improvements in child-rearing
in the first years of life through a nonformal initial
education program for parents who have little education
or are illiterate; (c) provide access to community
education for the growing number of small and isolated
communities that are not able to maintain a formal
school; and (d) provide literacy training to adults in
the areas and communities most difficult to assist
through the regular adult education programs and
mechanisms.
Two subprograms will be implemented: (a) formal primary
education; and (b) community education. The primary
education program will assist compensatory programs in
Colima, Chihuahua, Mexico, Nayarit, Querétaro,
Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Sonora and Zacatecas. Activities
will be organized in the following three areas: (a)
human resource development, which will include training
for teachers and directors, as well as incentives for
teachers to work in communities that are not easily
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accessible; (b) educational resources, including
teaching materials for schools, classes, teachers and
students, as well as the construction, rehabilitation
and maintenance of classrooms and annexes; and (c)
institutional strengthening, including office
construction and economic assistance for the tasks of
supervisors and section heads, and the creation of a
distribution network for materials, entailing the
construction of regional depositories. Institutional
strengthening also includes management training, studies
of the educational system, evaluations of the context of
the program itself, and creation of monitoring and
information programs.
The community education subprogram will include four
subcomponents: (a) nonformal initial education; (b)
community preschool education; (c) community primary
education; and (d) adult literacy. In addition to the
nine states covered by the program, the subprogram will
provide assistance for the 14 states already receiving
support from two World Bank-financed programs (Programa
para Abatir el Rezago Educativo and Programa para Abatir
el Rezago en Educaci¢n Básica).
CONSULTANTS: Consultants will be hired to: (a) train teachers and
supervisors; (b) design textbooks; and (c) conduct a
study on secondary education in Mexico.
GOODS AND EQUIPMENT:Equipment to be purchased for the project includes
school furnishings, office equipment, motor vehicles,
and teacher materials. In addition, the program will
provide financing for the printing of textbooks.
CIVIL WORKS: Civil works will be required to build and rehabilitate
classrooms, annexes, sanitary facilities, water tanks,
teacher houses and training centers.
EXECUTING AGENCY: Consejo Nacional de Fomento Educativo (CONAFE)
Homero 203, 1st Floor
Col. Chapultepec Morales
Mexico 11570, D.F., Mexico
Telephone: (525) 254-8689
Fax: (525) 250-3144
Contact: Dra. María Eugenia Reyes,
Directora de la Unidad de Programas
Compensatorios
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