To address the sector’s governance and quality challenges, MENFP took initial steps in 2014 to
increase its oversight of the education system, and the PEQH Project invested in developing the systems
to do so. In August 2014 MENFP announced Twelve Policy Measures and a National Pact for Education
Quality to work on sector oversight through enforcing minimum requirements for schools. In line with these
new MENFP priorities, the vision for the PEQH Project was that it would build on ongoing and prior WBGfinanced support – in particular, the Education for All Project – Phase II (EFA II, P124134) that closed in June
2018 and overlapped with the PEQH Project for about 15 months – to invest in developing systems to, in the
long term, enhance primary education access and quality. The PEQH Project also accounted for an important
shift in GoH priorities that occurred in the months prior to its preparation: a shift toward higher investment
and support by the GoH for the public system.