Second Higher Education Project

Abstract*

The objectives of the Nepal Second Higher Education Project are (a) enhanced quality and relevance of higher education and research through a set of incentives for promoting effective management and financial sustainability of academic institutions; and (b) improved access for academically qualified under-privileged students, including girls, dalits and educationally disadvantaged janajati to higher education through financial assistance and enhanced... Show More

Development Objective

The Objectives of the Project are (a) enhanced quality, efficiency and relevance of higher education through a set of systemic reforms, and incentives to selected institutions; and (b) improved access for academically qualified students from disadvantaged groups in (i) higher education and (ii) higher secondary education.

Key Details

Project Details

Project ID
P090967
Status
Closed
Team Leader
Mohan Aryal
Borrower 2
N/A

Country
Nepal
Disclosure Date
March 9, 2005
Approval Date
(as of board presentation)
February 22, 2007
Effective Date
July 27, 2007

Total Project Cost 1
US$ 77.41 million
Implementing Agency
N/A
Region
South Asia
Fiscal Year 3
2007

Commitment Amount
US$ 60.00 million
Environmental Category
C
Environmental and Social Risk
Not Applicable
Closing Date
June 30, 2014

Last Stage Reached
BANK APPROVED
Last Update Date
September 6, 2022

Notes
1. Total project cost includes funding from World Bank and non-bank sources in US$ millions. Active and Closed projects show current commitments. Proposed (pipeline) and dropped projects show the forecast amount. The commitment amount for projects in the pipeline is indicative and may be modified during the project preparation.
2. Borrower refers to the Borrower of a Loan or Recipient of a Grant.
3. ”Fiscal Year” is the fiscal year in which the project was approved (or dropped if the status is dropped). The World Bank's fiscal year is from July 1 - June 30. For example, a fiscal year of 1996 corresponds to July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996.

Sectors

Themes

FY17 - Human Development and Gender

FY17 - Education60%
- FY17 - Access to Education20%
- FY17 - Education Financing10%
- FY17 - Science and Technology10%
- FY17 - Standards, Curriculum and Textbooks10%
- FY17 - Teachers10%

FY17 - Social Development and Protection

FY17 - Social Protection20%
- FY17 - Social Safety Nets20%

FY17 - Urban and Rural Development

FY17 - Rural Development20%
- FY17 - Rural Infrastructure and service delivery20%

Project Map

Interactive Map

Finances

Financing Plan (US$ Millions)

Financier	Commitments
Borrower/Recipient	0.30
IDA Grant	60.00
Local Sources of Borrowing Country	17.11

Total Project Financing (US$ Millions)

Product Line	IBRD/IDA
IBRD Commitment	N/A
IDA Commitment	60.00
IBRD + IDA Commitment	60.00

Lending Instrument
Grant Amount	N/A
Total Project Cost**	77.41

Summary Status of World Bank Financing (US$ Millions) as of July 31, 2025

No data available.

Detailed Financial Activity as of July 31, 2025

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Period	Financier	Transaction Type	Amount (US$)
Mar 12, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	3,160,204.50
Dec 19, 2013	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	1,567,764.10
Aug 12, 2013	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	2,563,833.00
Aug 12, 2013	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	847,926.06
Aug 1, 2013	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	545,375.06
Oct 31, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Cancel	117,287.52
Aug 8, 2013	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	2,031,095.10
Oct 31, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	82,356.95
Jul 30, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	2,217,583.20
Jul 22, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	574,743.70
Aug 5, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	2,913,346.00
Apr 10, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	1,052,541.40
Jun 16, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	2,181,598.80
Feb 22, 2007	IDA-H2740	Loan Commitment	60,000,000.00
Apr 16, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	1,314,312.60
Mar 7, 2014	IDA-H2740	Loan Disb	973,060.56

Footnotes

Ratings

IMPLEMENTATION RATINGS

Name	Review	Date
Counterpart Funding	Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Monitoring and Evaluation	Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Overall Implementation Progress (IP)	Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Financial Management	Moderately Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Progress towards achievement of PDO	Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Procurement	Satisfactory	2014-06-24
Project Management	Satisfactory	2014-06-24

COMPLETION RATINGS

INDICATOR	IMPLEMENTATION COMPLETION & RESULTS REPORT: 12-30-2014
Outcomes
Risk to Development Outcome	Moderately Satisfactory
Bank Performance
Borrower Performance
Government Performance
Implementing Agency

INDEPENDENT EVALUATION RATINGS

INDICATOR	ICR REVIEW: 08-28-2015	PROJECT PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT REPORT:
Outcome Rating	Satisfactory	N/a
Risk To Development Outcome	Significant	N/a
Bank Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Borrower Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Government Performance	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Implementing Agency	Moderately Satisfactory	N/a
Icr Quality	Satisfactory	N/a
M&e Quality	Modest	N/a

Results Framework

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT OBJECTIVE INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Number of Institutions accredited	Value	0.00	12.00	6.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Project effective from July 27, 2007 facilitated the establishment of an Accreditation system in Nepal	Target exceeded.

Student pass rates at bachelors levels in participating institutions	Value	32.60	29.33	36.00
	Date	February 18, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2008/09 exam results	Will not meet the target. Lower rate due to very rapid expansion of HE system and highly centralized examinations

Student pass rates at masters levels in participating institutions Value 22.30 24.83 26.00
Date February 18, 2010 May 30, 2014 June 30, 2014
Comment Figures from 2008/09 exam results Average pass rate of 2011/12

Share of students enrolled in science, technology, management, and other employment/economic development focused programs in participating higher education institutions	Value	34.63	38.40	39.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2009/10 enrollment	The figure also includes (a) 1,589 students enrolled in the new window programs and (b) 3,177 students enrolled in the recentlytransformed to the semester system of TU central departments

Total enrollment in participating higher education institutions	Value	74012.00	93690.00	80000.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	HE data refers to participating institutions as of 2009/2010 (47 community campuses, 10 TU constituent campuses & 3 smalluniversities	Target exceeded. Enrollment in 47 community campuses (Scheme A, B and C), 10 TU decentralized campuses, and 3 universities as inthe baseline data.

Share of girls enrollment in participating higher education institutions Value 42.97 47.43 44.00
Date July 30, 2010 May 30, 2014 June 30, 2014
Comment Figures from 2009/10 enrollment Target exceeded.

Share of enrollment from dalits and educationally disadvantaged Janajatis in participating higher education institutions	Value	12.88	18.87	13.50
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2009/10 enrollment	Target exceeded.

Total enrollment in participating higher secondary schools	Value	48000.00	210100.00	163000.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Total enrollment in community higher secondary schools (CHSSs)	Target exceeded. This figure is based on the latest DOE EMIS data (Flash I, 2013-14).	Target revised in the MTR.

Share of girls enrollment in participating higher secondary schools	Value	34.00	50.00	50.00
	Date	July 3, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Initial baseline, which was calculated from total enrollment in CHSSs. Girls average share in total (above figures) was equivalentto that of participating schools	Target reached and maintained.	Not less than 50%. The original target was 43%.

Share of enrollment from dalits and educationally disadvantaged Janajatis in participating higher secondary schools	Value	5.80	7.02	6.20
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2009/10 enrollment	Target exceeded. The current figures are based on the latest DOE EMIS data (Flash I 2013-14), where highly marginalized janajatisare not reported.	Original target: Dalits:5%;Disadvantaged janajatis: 8%.

INTERMEDIATE RESULTS INDICATORS

INDICATOR		BASELINE	CURRENT	TARGET

Number of TU autonomous campuses	Value	0.00	4.00	3.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment		Revised target met.	Original target of 6 was reduced to 3 when the project was restructured in March 2011.

Number of TU decentralized campuses	Value	38.00	49.00	45.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment		Target met. This includes 4 autonomous campuses that completed the decentralization as a requirement for opting autonomy.	Original target of 48 was reduced to 45 when the project was restructured in March 2011.

Number of community campuses getting project support	Value	0.00	89.00	90.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment		One campus dropped as it could not meet the criteria.	Original EOP target was 10. Target was revised due to high demand when the project was restructured in March 2011.

Number of publications in refereed journals by the research grant recipients in approved research areas	Value	0.00	27.00	20.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	New indicator	Additional 45 have been published in professional journals, 6 have been presented in international conferences. Other publicationsare in pipeline.

Number of new programs in science, technology, management, and other employment/economic development focused programs in participating institutions	Value	0.00	28.00	20.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	New indicator	Target exceeded. 31 Central Departments of TU have started 38 Master programs in semester system – features of these programs aresimilar to window programs.

Number of students receiving financial assistance from the Fund at Higher Education level Value 0.00 7192.00 3500.00
Date July 27, 2007 May 30, 2014 June 30, 2014
Comment Target exceeded.
Number of students receiving financial assistance from the Fund at Higher Secondary Education level Value 0.00 7391.00 4300.00
Date July 27, 2007 May 30, 2014 June 30, 2014
Comment Target exceeded.

Enrollment in community higher secondary schools	Value	48000.00	293075.00	256000.00
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	January 15, 2014
	Comment		Target exceeded. These figures are from MOE/DOE latest EMIS (Flash I, 2013/14).	Target revised from 68000 in the MTR

Share of enrollment in the science stream in participating community higher secondary schools	Value	2.37	2.89	2.60
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	New indicator. These figures are from 2009/10 enrollment data	Target met. Based on exam appeared data, share of science students enrollment at Higher Secondary level in total is around 14%,based on pass rate, the figure is around 22%.

Quality Assurance and Accreditation System functional	Value	No	Yes	Yes
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment		QAA system within UGC is functional. UGC has submitted concept paper and draft Bill to MOE for the establishment of an independentNational Accreditation Board.

Publication of EMIS reports based on functioning EMIS software/database with campus-level data	Value	No	Yes	Yes
	Date	July 27, 2007	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment		Sixth issue of EMIS Report published in May 2014; web-based Report of the same issue is also ready for publication.

Admissions, exams, and publication of exam results at TU follow published calendar	Value	0.00	57.00	100.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	New indicator	Share (%) of TU centrally run programs that followed academic calendar. Some improvements observed because of the semester systemTU has started at the Central Department

Autonomy packages for Decentralized Campuses developed by TU Value 0.00 9.00 10.00
Date July 30, 2010 May 30, 2014 June 30, 2014
Comment New indicator

Comprehensive higher education policy developed and adopted by government	Value	Not developed	Policy submitted to MoE	Adopted
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	New indicator	GON approval awaited

Student pass rates at masters levels in participating institutions	Value	22.30	24.83	26.00
	Date	February 18, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2008/09 exam results	Average pass rate of 2011/12

Share of girls enrollment in participating higher education institutions	Value	42.97	47.43	44.00
	Date	July 30, 2010	May 30, 2014	June 30, 2014
	Comment	Figures from 2009/10 enrollment	Target exceeded.