Education Quality Improvement Project

Current phase: 2007-2011
Project budget: $64.5 million

CIDA’s contribution to the Education Quality Improvement Project (EQUIP) helps increase quality, gender equity, and access to in, Afghanistan’s education sector.

An investment window of the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund, the World Bank-managed EQUIP is Afghanistan’s largest education program. It supports activities that:

• strengthen the capacity of schools and communities to manage teaching and learning activities;
• invest in human resources (teachers, principals, and educational administration personnel) and physical facilities; and
• reinforce the capacity of schools, district education departments, provincial education departments, and the Ministry of Education.

The program also promotes gender equality by making female teachers and female students a priority within each component activity.