MCC Institutional Capacity Building Activity

Guatemala Threshold - Education Project - Institutional Capacity Building Activity: MCC will support activities to strengthen the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Education to better plan and budget for the provision of an equitable and quality secondary education.

This will include support to: conduct an assessment of the effectiveness and efficiency of different models of lower secondary school that includes identifying the minimum inputs needed to provide a quality education, the current provision, and the budgetary requirements to meet the minimum inputs; strengthen management information systems, support data gathering, improve data quality and to promote its use as a tool for planning the provision of secondary education services, including the management of training and professional development of secondary education teachers, and management human resources, their qualifications, training received and professional development needs; advance the institutionalization of a competitive teacher selection process (including a diagnostic test); and development of a geographical analysis of the supply and demand of secondary education as an input for the estimation of required resources (infrastructure, teacher, assignments and materials), the planning and budgeting to provide a quality education.