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Country: Ghana
Summary: Evaluation of Ghana Education Outcomes Project (Geop) Outcomes Fund Value for Money and Performance
Deadline: 31 Jul 2025
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Notice Type: Tender
TOT Ref.No.: 121775912
Document Ref. No.: 0002017145
Financier: World Bank (WB)
Purchaser Ownership: Public
Tender Value: Refer Document
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BackgroundThe Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches(GPRBA), part of the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience & Land(IDUGD) Global Practice at the World Bank, provides innovative financingsolutions that link funding to predetermined and measurable results. In2022, GPRBA approved a grant for the Ghana Education Outcomes Project (GEOP), which is a component of the World Bank IDA-financed Ghana Accountability forLearning Outcomes Project (GALOP)1. The funding for GEOP is providedby the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), with the Government of Ghana contributing an additional $4.5 million. GEOPfocuses on training, reintegrating, and retaining out-of-school children(OOSC), as well as improving learning outcomes in mainstream schools. GEOP employs an outcomes fund structure, which is aninnovative, results-based mechanism utilizing a portfolio of impact bonds, wherepayments are wholly or partly based on the achievement of pre-defined outcomes. Theproject engages investors, outcomes funders, service providers, and theMinistry of Education (MOE) as the project implementing agency, merging theprinciples of Results-Based Financing (RBF) with the collaborative efforts ofpublic-private partnerships. As the implementing agency, MOE directly contractsand collaborates with social investors and service providers (NGOs) toimplement the program. Investors provide the upfront working capital in caseswhere service providers are unable to do so. Through its Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP)component, the project targets approximately 80, 000 out-of-school children(OOSC) in rural areas with the highest absentee and dropout rates, indistricts historically deprived of strong educational infrastructure, and inthe Greater Accra and Kumasi Metropolitan districts. Additionally, throughits Mainstream School Improvement Programme (MSIP) component, students alreadyenrolled in 600 GALOP-beneficiary schools will benefit from strengthenedinterventions ...
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TOR-GEOP-Evaluation_Final-clean.docx