The Project's Development Objective is to strengthen pedagogy, governance, and physical learning environments in the Borrower's public primary, secondary, and technical/vocational schools.

The development objective of the Strengthening Pedagogy and Governance in Uruguayan Public Schools Project for Uruguay is to strengthen pedagogy, governance, and physical learning environments in the Borrower's public primary, secondary, and technical and vocational schools. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improving teacher training and pedagogical content will: (i) support in-service training programs for effective teaching of the realigned competency-based curriculum for all compulsory education levels in all public primary, secondary, and technical and vocational schools; and (ii) improve the quality of the pedagogical content of activities for expanded learning time (ELT) schools. The second component, strengthening management teams objectives are: (i) to strengthen the governance framework and management skills of institutional management teams and system supervisors in all compulsory education levels, and (ii) to strengthen the capacity of school management teams and system supervisors that lead teaching and learning processes. It consists of following sub-components: (i) in-service training of school management teams and system supervisors in governance and management for the new curriculum; and (ii) revision of key aspects and redesign of the framework governing the career of directors, teachers, and other learning support staff. The third component, improving infrastructure and complementary services will support the maintenance, construction, expansion, and or rehabilitation of infrastructure as a core process of the implementation of a new curricular design that includes an extension of the pedagogical time and complementary services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) studies to identify infrastructure needs; (ii) construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance of school infrastructure; (iii) systematization of evidence-based design processes for learning spaces; and (iv) provision of complementary services. The fourth component, strengthening evaluation systems and project management will seek to strengthen the evaluation capacity of the education system and ensure the appropriate management and monitoring of the project. It consists of following sub-components: (i) evaluation capacities; and (ii) project administration.