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Education IV Project

Mozambique

Borrower Mozambique
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Education
Approved 06.11.2001
Signed 31.07.2002
Status Completed
Loan Administrator AFDB
Executing Agency AfDB
Co-financiers AFDF, Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 9.20
Total Project Cost (US$m) 24.29

Under the project, works will focus on four rural provinces with low educational coverage, namely Cabo Delgado, Nampula, Niassa and Zambesia, and will include:

  • upgrading of six secondary schools construction of two new ones;
  • provision of furniture and equipment;
  • construction of dormitories to house 200 female students;
  • rehabilitation of three Training and Vocational Education (TVE)facilities;
  • conversion of one TVE into a teacher training college;
  • capacity-building programs to strengthen the entire educational system; and
  • production of of gender-sensitive curricula.
The project will help increase the country's skilled workforce and in turn, reduce poverty levels considerably.

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