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1993.10 - Terceiro Projeto de Educação Básica Do Nordeste
1993.10 - Terceiro Projeto de Educação Básica Do Nordeste
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The World Bank
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OF THE
PRESIDENT OF THE
TO THE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
ON A
Public Disclosure Authorized
PROPOSED LOAN
TO THE
FOR THE
MICROGRAPHICS
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CURRERC EMIALEM'I
(as of October 1, 1993)
Currency Unit: Cruzeiro (Cr.) Real
FISCAL YA
January I - December 31
PRICIPL ACRONYM UA
Financin Plan:
Iocal Foreign Total
Federal Government 74.8 74.8
State Governments 85.6 85.6
IBRD 74.8 3.1
ToUrAL 335.1
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MFMORANDUM AND RECOMMENDATION
OF THE PRESIDENT
OF THE IBRD TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
ON A PROPOSED LOAN TO THE
FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL
FOR THE THID NOEAST BASIC EDUTIN PROJEC
Backrund
4. One of the key lessons learned from the Northeast Basic Education I
Project, also known as EDURURAL (Ln. 1867-BR, US$32 million,
approved by the Board in 1980), was that direct investments in education
quality in this region, particularly municipal investments, are not sustainable
in the absence of fundamental reforms in education management and
financing. Bank dialogue with the Government since EDURURAL has
emphasized a strategic approach to resolving the problem of extremely low-
quality schooling. The key feature of this strategy is to strengthen state-level
education institutions so that they in turn can assume appropriate state-level
roles, including system-wide quality control, teacher training and
certification, and improving tht equality of educational opportunity across the
states' municipalities. The Bank see this as a prerequisite for a primary
education system that is fully derentralized to the municipal level. One of
the first steps in this strategy is for state governments to confront the critical
management issues that continue to plague school systems in Brazil, and
particularly in the Northeast. These include overstaffing and poor
deployment of personnel, misallocation of financial resources, and
uninformed decision-making. This project, and its companion project, the
Second Northeast Basic Education Project (Ln. 3604-BR, approved by the
Board of Executive Directors on May 13, 1993) directly attacks these
problems. Besides providing essential quality-enhancing education
investments, including textbooks, reading books, and teacher training to all
public schools in the project states, the proposed project will link
disbursements under the schoolfacilities component, representing half of the
project's total cost, to the states' implementation of specific management
reforms in an agreed timeframe. Through these reforms, and through the
development of management systems to institutionalize them, states will
increase their administrative and financial capacity to support municipal
education systems and sustain public school quality.
the critical nature of these reforms, the Bank and the M'-istry of Education
required that the states agree to implement these reforms as-a prendition
for entry into the project. The Governors of the five project states formally
agreed at appraisal both to reduce overstaffing and to increase expenditures
on non-salary classroom materials in accordance with quantitative annual
Urg.dg for the five years of the project. At neWtiatins, each state commited
itself to a five-year set of specific annual targets, acceptable to the Bank
(referred to as Annual Management Efficiency Targets, or AMETs), both for
reducing overstaffing and for improving the allocation of finances. To asses
state cpmpliance with these AMETs, a commission formed by Bank
consultants and Ministry of Education staff visited each of the project states
prior to appraisal and again before negotiations to review payroll and
financial records. It was agreed at negotiations that a similar commission
will carry out this review annually.
p Impenai ad Sustainabilt
Republic of Brazil, and not the states, will be the Borrower, whereas the
States are the executing agents, subsidiary agreements, acceptable to the
Bank, between the Borrower and each of the project States, and between the
project States and municipalities eligible for financing under the improving
schoolfacilities component, will establish the legal obligations that the
project states will undertake toward the Borrower, and that the eligible
mumicipalities will undertake towards their respective States. Finally, the
Borrower and the states agreed at negotiations to conduct a full project
review with the Bank 18 months into project execution (12 months before the
mid-term review would normally take place). This review will be timed to
coincide with political changes following the inauguration of new governors
in January 1995.
Lessons 1earned
12. The design of this project is based on lessons learned from past
projects in Brazil, particularly the EDURURAL Project and the Urban Basic
Education Project (Ln. 2412-BR, approved by the Board of Executive
Directors in 1983). In particular, the three critical lessons that have
influenced the design of this project are: (i) textbook provision and school
upgrading are highly cost-effective investments; (ii) teacher training aimed at
improving specific skills and classroom management techniques are
promising investments whereas small doses of subject matter training are not;
and (iii) effective implementation and longer-term sustainability of education
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Agreed ActsO
13. Ag=menwas reached dmring nang ais with the Borrower and
each state that: () all project accounts will be audited annually in accordance
with appropriate auditing principles by independent auditors acceptable to the
Bank, and these accounts will indicate expenditures for each prect
component, subdivided by expenditures financed by the Bank we Federal
Government, and each of the project states; (1l) standard bidding documents
and letters of invitation satisfactory to the Bank will be used in all
piecurement financed by the Bank under the project; (ill) MEC and each of
the states will support project units with staffing plans acceptable to the
Bank, and the project coordinators and nnit heads will at all times be persons
whose qualifications and experience are acceptable to the Bank; and (iv) by
May 31, 1995, MEC will ffrnish terms-of-reference satisfactory to the Bank
for a full joint review (mid-term review) of the project, and by June 30,
1995, the states and MEC will participate with the Bank in this review.
Beneft ad RIS
19. Benef The project will directly improve the quality of schooling
for approximately 3 million children per year in the first four grades of state
and municipal primary schools in the five project states, which is
approximately 75 percent of total primary enrollments in these states. The
project target group represents approximately 45% of the total number of
students enrolled in the first four grades of primary school In the Northeast
By improving school quality, it is expected that the project will contribute to
reducing grade repetition, raising student achievement, and increasing
attainment in the five states. The project will also improve the efficiency of
state and municipal spending on primary education. Technical assistance in
support of management reforms under the project should produce significant
improvements in the functioning of state education secretariats, and will also
help state secretariats develop a new role as catalysts for raising municipal
school quality.
20. Ri& There are several risks associated with this project. First,
there is the chance that the states' commitment to implementing the
politically difficult administrative reforms and other actions to improve
education quality and efficiency may falter after the change in state governors
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in 1995 and that the expected improvem-nts in state and municipal education
systems might not occur. To the degree possible, this risk has been mitigated
by the intensive preparation work at the state level made possible in part by a
US$1.4 million Japunese grant, as well as the states' sense of ownership in
the project design and conditionality. To further reduce this risk, the project
design includes annual reviews of states' implementation of their programs
and an explicit system for reprogramming time-slice resources across states or
to other project components in the event of nonperformance by any state. A
second risk is slow implementation of the other state-level components, due
to weaknesses in administrative capacity. The project's central emphasis on
strengthening states' institutional capacity, the amount and types of technical
assistance planned, and the supervision and coordination role which MEC is
expected to play, will all help to mitigate !his risk. A third risk is more
deep-seated and persistent. It concerns the fact that public school systems in
the Northeast have traditionally served political, and not only educational,
ends. Consequently, a significant share of school finances has been
historically absorbed by politicians' perceived need to provide jobs, award
construction contracts, and distribute schoarships. Given the tenacity of this
so-called "clientelism* In the Northeast, the project's goal of rationalizing
education management may be undermined after the new state governments
are installed in early 1995. It Is nevertheless expected that close and intense
supervision, both by the Ministry of Educatiorn and the Bank, accompanied by
a careful and early joint mid-term review, will provide .portunities to revisit
the project design and activities, and review the targets to keep the education
institutions in the Northeast on the steady path of reform.
Reconunnaion
21. I am satisfied that the proposed loan would comply with the Articles
of Agreement of the Bank and recommend that the Executive Directors
approve it.
Lewis T. Preston
President
Attachments
Washington, D.C.
October 29, 1993
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Scedule A
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BRAZII
THIRD NORTHEAST BASIC ED,ATIN PM
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BRAZI
TnIRD NORTHEAST BASIC EDMCATi PR.WC
Project Component Federal Stat. IBRD Federal Stats IBRD Pederal Stat. IBRD Toa
Schedule-B
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THIRD-NORTHEAST BASIC EDUCATION PROJECT
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THID NORTHEAST BASIC EDUCATION PROJECT
ESTIMATED DISBURSEMENTS
Total Costs, Including Contingenc (US$ million)
Bank Fiscal Year FY94 FY95 FY96 FY97 FY98 FY99
Annual 20.8u 29.7 55.2 53.8 32.9 14.2
Cumulative 20.8 50.5 105.7 159.5 192.4 206.6
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Schedule D
Amount less
I,2&" N-2 Isar Boroe Purpose Cancellation Undisbuse
-(US$ million)-
One hundred and forty-five loans fully disbursed 10,904.82
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A. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF LOANS (continued) Schedule D
(As of September 30, 1993)
Amount less
Loan No Year Borrower Emose Cancellation Undisbursed
-- (US$ million)-
3100 1989 State of Parana Municipal Development 100.0 50.2
3102 1989 Cia. Saneamento Basico
Sao Paulo Water Sector 280.0 195.6
3129 1990 State of Rio Grande
do Sul Municipal Development 100.0 73.8
3130 1990 Brazil Agricultural Research 47.0 34.6
3135 1990 Brazil Basic Health 267.0 231.2
3160 1990 State of Santa Catarina Land Management 33.0 25.2
3169 1990 Brazil Highways Mgmt & Rehabilitation 310.0 226.5
3170 1990 Brazil Irrigation 210.0 199.6
3173 1990 Brazil Environmental 117.0 94.5
2883-1 1990 ELETROBRAS Resettlement & Irrigation 100.0 23.0
3268 1991 BNDES Private Sector 300.0 87.5
3269 1991 Brazil Education 150.0 115.5
3375 1991 State of Sao Paulo Education 245.0 213.5
3376 1991 Petroleo Brasileiro S.A. Hydrocarbon Transport & Processing 260.0 260.0
3442 1992 Brazil Water Sector Modernization 250.0 247.9
3444 1992 Brazil Rondonia Natural Resource Management l67.0 150.6
3457 1992 Brazil Metro Transport - Sao Paulo 126.0 126.0
3480 1992 BNDES Pollution Control 50.0 50.0
3492 1992 Brazil Natural Resource - Mato Grosso 205.0 189.2
3503 1 1993 Brazil Water Quality and Pollution Control 9.0 9.0
3504 1993 Brazil State of Sao Paulo Water Quality
and Pollution Control 119.0 118.0
3505 1993 Brazil State of Parana Water Quality and
Pollution Control 117.0 116.0
3547 1993 State of Santa Catarina State Highway 50.0 44.4
354811 1993 State of Alagoas State Highway 38.0 38.0
3554 1993 State of Minas Gerais Water Quality and Pollution Control 145.0 145.0
3604 1' 1993 Brazil Second N.E. Basic Education 212.0 212.0
3633 Y 1993 Brazil Metropolitan Transport 128.5 128.5
363911 1994 State of Minas Gerais Management & Environmental
Infrastructure HQ& 10
TOTAL 18,760.99V
Of which has been repaid to the Bank 8,216.46
Total now outstanding 10,544.53
Amount sold 45.83
Of which has been repaid 45.83
Total now held by Bank
Total undisbursed 47
Note: The status of the projects ist in Part A is described in a separate report on all Bank/IDA financed projects in
execution, which is updated twice yearly and circulated to the Executive Directors on April 30 and October 31.
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Schedule D
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Schedule D
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1993 CEBRACTEX Spinning & Weaving 6.00 4.00 10.00
1993 CEVAL Mfg. of Food, Bverages
& Tobacco 45.00 - 45.00
1993 Macedo Aimentos Gramin Mill Products 34.00 - 34.00
1993 Papel SIMAO Pulp and Papr 39.00 - 39.00
1994 SADIA Food Mtg. g -- 0.
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