Page  1
CONFORMED COPY 
 
CREDIT NUMBER 4222 MLI 
 
Financing Agreement 
 
(Education Sector Expenditure Program (Phase II)) 
 
between 
 
REPUBLIC OF MALI 
 
and 
 
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 
 
Dated September 1, 2006 
Page  2
CONFORMED COPY 
CREDIT NUMBER 4222 MLI 
FINANCING AGREEMENT 
AGREEMENT dated September 1, 2006, between REPUBLIC OF MALI 
(
“Recipient”) and INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 
(“Association”).  The Recipient and the Association hereby agree as follows: 
ARTICLE I 
—
GENERAL CONDITIONS; DEFINITIONS 
1.01. 
The General Conditions (as defined in the Appendix to this Agreement) 
constitute an integral part of this Agreement. 
1.02. 
Unless the context requires otherwise, the capitalized terms used in this 
Agreement have the meanings ascribed to them in the General Conditions or in 
the Appendix to this Agreement.  
ARTICLE II — FINANCING 
2.01. 
The Association agrees to extend to the Recipient, on the terms and conditions 
set forth or referred to in this Agreement, a credit in an amount equivalent to 
twenty-four million Special Drawing Rights (SDR 24,000,000 equivalent) 
(
“Credit”) to assist in financing the project described in Schedule 1 to this 
Agreement (“Project”). 
2.02. 
The Recipient may withdraw the proceeds of the Financing in accordance with 
Section IV of Schedule 2 to this Agreement.
 
2.03. 
The Maximum Commitment Charge Rate payable by the Recipient on the 
Unwithdrawn Financing Balance shall be one-half of one percent (1/2 of 1%) per 
annum.  
2.04 
The Service Charge payable by the Recipient on the Withdrawn Credit Balance 
shall be equal to three-fourths of one percent (3/4 of 1%) per annum. 
2.05. 
The Payment Dates are March 1 and September 1 in each year. 
2.06. 
The principal amount of the Credit shall be repaid in accordance with the 
repayment schedule set forth in Schedule 3 to this Agreement. 
Page  3
-
2
-
2.07. 
The Payment Currency is the Dollar. 
ARTICLE III 
—
PROJECT
 
3.01. 
The Recipient declares its commitment to the objective of the Project and the 
Program.  To this end, the Recipient shall carry out the Project in accordance 
with the provisions of Article IV of the General Conditions. 
3.02. 
Without limitation upon the provisions of Section 3.01 of this Agreement, and 
except as the Recipient and the Association shall otherwise agree, the Recipient 
shall ensure that the Project is carried out in accordance with the provisions of 
Schedule 2 to this Agreement. 
ARTICLE IV — EFFECTIVENESS; TERMINATION 
4.01. 
The Additional Conditions of Effectiveness consist of the following: 
(a) 
An agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Association, has 
been signed between the Recipient
’s Ministry responsible for education 
and the National Investment Agency of Territorial Authorities for the 
purpose of implementation of Part 2 (a) of the Project by the latter, and 
said agreement includes the following provisions: 
(i) 
Absent communication of an objection by the Recipient’s 
Ministry responsible for education to the National Investment 
Agency of Territorial Authorities within two (2) weeks of 
submission to said Ministry of an application for withdrawal of 
proceeds of the Financing by said Agency, said Agency shall 
proceed to transmit the application for withdrawal of proceeds to 
the Association for processing.  
(ii) 
In the event of such an objection, the Recipient’s Ministry 
responsible for education and the National Investment Agency of 
Territorial Authorities shall collaborate in order to reach an 
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Association.  
(b) 
The Project Implementation Procedures Manual, in form and substance 
satisfactory to the Association, has been adopted by the Recipient. 
Page  4
-
3
-
(c) 
An external auditor, with qualifications, experience and terms of 
reference satisfactory to the Association, has been recruited in 
accordance with the provisions of Section III of Schedule 2 to this 
Agreement, for purposes of Project implementation. 
4.02. 
The Effectiveness Deadline is the date 90 days after the date of this Agreement. 
ARTICLE V 
—
REPRESENTATIVE; ADDRESSES
 
5.01. 
The Recipient’s Representative is its Minister at the time responsible for finance. 
5.02. 
The Recipient’s Address is: 
Ministry of the Economy and Finance 
P. O. Box 234 
Bamako 
Mali 
Telex: 
  Facsimile: 
 
 
 
2559MJ 
 
(223) 222 19 14 
 
(223) 222 88 53 
 
(223) 222 07 93 
5.03. 
The Association’s Address is: 
 International 
Development 
Association 
 
1818 H Street, N.W. 
Washington, D.C. 20433 
 
United States of America 
 Cable: 
  Telex: 
  Facsimile: 
 INDEVAS 
 248423 
(MCI) 
or 1-202-477-6391 
 
Washington, D.C. 
  64145 (MCI) 
Page  5
-
4
-
AGREED at Bamako, Mali, as of the day and year first above written.
 
REPUBLIC OF MALI 
 
By:
/s/ Aboubakar Traoré 
Authorized Representative 
 
INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION 
 
By: /s/ Alassane Diawara 
Authorized Representative 
 
Page  6
-
5
-
SCHEDULE 1 
Project Description
 
The objective of the Project is to increase the proportion of the R
ecipient’s 
children completing quality first-cycle basic education and improve the overall efficiency 
of resource use in the education sector. 
The Project consists of the following parts: 
1. 
Improving Quality of First Cycle of Basic Education
(a) 
Establishment of reading areas, including necessary textbook stocking 
devices and books, in approximately 25 percent of classrooms in schools in the first cycle 
of basic education (approximately 4,600 classrooms), and equipping of libraries in 
five (5) Teacher Training Institutes (approximately 2,000 textbooks per Institute), 
through the acquisition of goods such as books, shelves and storage equipment. 
(b) 
Implementation of the Direct Support to Improve School Productivity 
scheme for purpose of purchase of school supplies for schools having an operational 
School Management Committee. 
(c) 
Support to training and in-service training: 
(i) 
provision of 60-day in-service training for certification of 
approximately 3,000 community school teachers; and 
(ii) 
provision of accelerated training and in-service training, each of 
60 working days, to approximately 1,800 new teachers. 
2. 
Increasing Access to Education
(a) 
Construction and equipping of classrooms in the first and second cycles 
of basic education (approximately 970 classrooms), including the provision of furniture 
and water adduction and the construction of lavatories. 
 
(b) 
Construction and equipping of a general secondary school (for 
approximately 600 students). 
Page  7
-
6
-
(c) 
Support to apprenticeship programs in key areas of youth employment. 
3. 
Strengthening of Institutional Management Capacities in Education Sector, and 
Program Coordination
(a) 
Strengthening of human resource management, including evaluation and 
training of managers and their adaptation to job profiles. 
(b) 
Improvement of allocation and efficiency of resources through 
strengthening of budgetary and financial management, establishment of regulatory 
framework for independent management of public entities of technical and professional 
education, promotion of private education, establishment of instrument integrating school 
map facilitating more efficient resource allocation and inequality reduction and carrying 
out of annual audits of school construction and textbook management. 
(c) 
Establishment of an integrated education management information 
system. 
(d) 
Program coordination and management and the carrying out of Learning 
Assessments. 
Page  8
-
7
-
SCHEDULE 2
 
Project Execution 
Section I. 
Institutional and Other Arrangements
A. Institutional 
Arrangements
 
1. 
The Recipient’s Ministry at the time responsible for education shall coordinate 
Project implementation through its technical directorates. 
2. 
The Recipient shall maintain, in its Ministry at the time responsible for education 
and throughout Project implementation, the following entities, in form and 
substance and with resources and functions satisfactory to the Association and as 
further detailed in the Project Implementation Procedures Manual: 
(a) 
The Cabinet Council
,
headed by the Minister at the time responsible for 
education, which shall provide overall guidance in Project 
implementation and ensure that Project activities are consistent with the 
Recipient’s policy objectives in the education sector. 
(b) 
The Steering Committee, headed by the Secretary General of the 
Ministry at the time responsible for education, and comprising the 
technical units involved in Program implementation, which shall be 
responsible for evaluation of technical projects under the Program and 
for preparation of said projects for submission to the Cabinet Council for 
approval. 
(c) 
The Planning and Statistics Unit
shall be responsible, 
inter alia
,
for: 
(i) provision of assistance to the technical departments of the Recipient’s 
Ministry at the time responsible for education, Teaching Academies and 
Pedagogical Activity Centers in: (A) development and implementation of 
their annual work programs; (B) preparation and submission of Program 
implementation progress reports to development partners; (C) updating 
of outcome and results indicators of Program implementation; 
and (D) the carrying out of audits referred to in Section V.2 of this 
Schedule and implementation of the recommendations of said audits; (ii) 
coordination of technical and financial partner actions in the education 
sector; and (iii) provision of administrative services to the Cabinet 
Council and Steering Committee. 
Page  9
-
8
-
(d) 
The Academies of Education
,
whose Directors shall coordinate Project 
implementation and monitoring at the regional level.
 
3. 
Other entities involved in Project implementation:
 
(a) 
The School Management Committees
shall be responsible for the 
implementation of activities the resources transferred to the schools 
under the Direct Support to Improve School Productivity scheme, Part 1 
(b) of the Project. 
 
(b) 
The National Investment Agency of Territorial Authorities
shall 
be responsible for the channeling of resources to local governments for 
implementation of Part 
2 
(a) of the Project under the agreement 
concluded with the Recipient pursuant to Section 4.01 (a) of this 
Agreement. 
(c) 
The Fund to Support Vocational Training and Apprenticeship
of the 
Ministry at the time responsible for vocational training and 
apprenticeship shall be responsible for implementation of Part 2 (c) of 
the Program. 
B. Manual 
Except as the Association shall otherwise agree, the Recipient shall: (i) carry out 
the Project, or cause the Project to be carried out, in accordance with the Project 
Implementation Procedures Manual; and (ii) except as the Association shall 
otherwise agree, not amend, abrogate, or waive, or permit to be amended, 
abrogated, or waived, the aforementioned, or any provision thereof, if such 
amendment, abrogation, or waiver may, in the opinion of the Association, 
materially or adversely affect Project implementation or achievement of the 
objective thereof. 
C. 
Environmental and Social Safeguards 
Except as the Association shall otherwise agree, the Recipient shall: (i) carry out 
the Project, or cause the Project to be carried out, in accordance with the 
Environmental and Social Management Framework Plan; and (ii) except as the 
Association shall otherwise agree, not amend, abrogate, or waive, or permit to be 
amended, abrogated, or waived, the aforementioned, or any provision thereof, if 
such amendment, abrogation, or waiver may, in the opinion of the Association, 
Page  10
-
9
-
materially or adversely affect Project implementation or achievement of the 
objectives thereof. 
Section II. 
Project Monitoring, Reporting and Evaluation
A. Project 
Reports 
1. 
(a) 
The Recipient shall monitor and evaluate the progress of the Project and 
prepare Project Reports in accordance with the provisions of 
Section 4.08 of the General Conditions and on the basis of the indicators 
set forth below in sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph.  Each Project 
Report shall cover the period of one calendar quarter, and shall be 
furnished to the Association not later than 45 days after the end of the 
period covered by such report. 
(b) 
The performance indicators referred to above in sub-paragraph (a), to be 
assessed in respect of the Project at the end of the 2008-09 school year, 
consist of the following: 
(i) Project 
Objective 
(A) 
The completion rate in the first cycle of basic education 
has increased from 43.2 percent as of 
December 31, 2005 to 56.4 percent. 
(B) 
60 percent of all students in the third and fifth years of 
the first cycle of basic education, calculated as a 
proportion of such students classified by gender, 
Academy of Education, urban area and rural area, have 
acquired basic competency in reading and mathematics. 
(ii) 
Part 1 of the Project: 
(A) 
The proportion of repeaters in the first cycle of primary 
education has decreased from 18.6% as of 
December 31, 2005 to 13.7 percent, and that in the 
second cycle of primary education has decreased from 
23.9 percent as of December 31, 2005 to 18.8 percent. 
Page  11
-
10  -  
 
 
 
(B) 
4,600 classrooms in the first cycle of basic education 
have a reading area, in form and substance satisfactory 
to the Association. 
(C) 
Libraries in five (5) Teacher Training Institute have been 
equipped with at least 2,000 textbooks each.
 
(D) 
3,000 community school teachers have participated in a 
60-day in-service training program under Part 1 (c) of 
the Project. 
(E) 
1,800 new teachers have participated in a 60-day 
accelerated training program under Part 1 (c) of the 
Project. 
 
(ii) 
Part 2 of the Project: 
(A) 
The gross intake rate in the first cycle of basic education 
has increased from 66.6 percent as of 
December 31, 2005
 
to 80 percent.  
(B) 
Girls as a proportion of total enrolment in the first cycle 
of basic education have increased from 43.8 percent as 
of December 31, 2005 to 46.2 percent. 
(C) 
Girls as a proportion of total enrolment in the second 
cycle of basic education have increased from 40 percent 
as of December 31, 2005 to 44 percent. 
(D) 
The number of youth in apprenticeship programs 
managed by the Vocational Training and Apprenticeship 
Support Fund has increased from 9,200 as of 
December 31, 2005 to 11,000. 
 
(iii) 
Part 3 of the Project: 
(A) 
Non-teaching staff as a proportion of total staff in the 
education sector has decreased from 24 percent as of 
December 31, 2005 to 20 percent. 
Page  12
-
11  -  
 
 
 
(C) 
The Project Reports referred to in Section II.A.1 (a) of 
this Schedule, the interim un-audited financial reports 
referred to in Section II.B.2 of this Schedule, the audited 
Financial Statements
 
referred to in Section II.B.3 of this 
Schedule and the results of the audits referred to in 
Section V.2 of this Schedule, all in form and substance 
satisfactory to the Association, have been submitted by 
the Recipient to the Association
 
in a timely manner. 
(D) 
Financial management and procurement under the 
Project have been conducted in form and substance 
satisfactory to the Association. 
B. 
Financial Management, Financial Reports and Audits 
1. 
The Recipient shall maintain or cause to be maintained a financial management 
system in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.09 of the General 
Conditions. 
2. 
Without limitation on the provisions of Part A of this Section, the Recipient shall 
prepare and furnish to the Association as part of the Project Report interim un-
audited financial reports for the Project covering the quarter, in form and 
substance satisfactory to the Association.
 
3. 
The Recipient shall have its Financial Statements audited in accordance with the 
provisions of Section 4.09 (b) of the General Conditions.  Each audit of the 
Financial Statements shall cover the period of one fiscal year of the Recipient.  
The audited Financial Statements for each such period shall be furnished to the 
Association not later than six months after the end of such period.   
Section III. 
Procurement
A. General
1.
 
Goods, Non-Consultant Services and Works.
 
All goods, non-consultant 
services and works required for the Project and to be financed out of the proceeds 
of the Financing shall be procured in accordance with the requirements set forth 
or referred to in Section I of the Procurement Guidelines, and with the provisions 
of this Schedule. 
Page  13
-
12  -  
 
 
 
2. 
Non-Consulting Services.
 
All non-consultant services required for the Project 
and to be financed out of the proceeds of the Financing shall be procured using 
bidding documents in form and substance satisfactory to the Association, and 
under contracts awarded on the basis of National Competitive Bidding.  Each 
contract for Non-Consulting Services estimated to cost the equivalent of $50,000 
or less may be awarded on the basis of Shopping
.
3.
 
Consultants’ Services.
 
All consultants’ services required for the Project and to 
be financed out of the proceeds of the Financing shall be procured in accordance 
with the requirements set forth or referred to in Sections I and IV of the 
Consultant Guidelines, and with the provisions of this Schedule. 
4. 
Definitions.
 
The capitalized terms used below in this Section to describe 
particular procurement methods or methods of review by the Association of 
particular contracts, refer to the corresponding method described in the 
Procurement Guidelines, or Consultant Guidelines, as the case may be. 
B. 
Particular Methods of Procurement of Goods, Non-Consultant Services and 
Works 
1.
 Competitive 
Bidding. 
 
Except as otherwise provided in paragraph 2 below, 
goods, non-consultant services and works shall be procured under contracts 
awarded on the basis of International or National Competitive Bidding. 
2.
 
Other Methods of Procurement of Goods, Non-Consultant Services and 
Works.  
The following table specifies the methods of procurement, other than 
Competitive Bidding, which may be used for goods, non-consultant services and 
works.  The Procurement Plan shall specify the circumstances under which such 
methods may be used: 
Procurement Method
(a)  Shopping
 
(b)  Direct Contracting  
(c)  Procurement Agent  
C. 
Particular Methods of Procurement of Consultants’ Services
1.
 
Quality and Cost-based Selection.
 
Except as otherwise provided in paragraph 2 
below, consultants’ services shall be procured under contracts awarded on the 
basis of Quality- and Cost-based Selection.
 
Page  14
-
13  -  
 
 
 
2.
 
Other Methods of Procurement of Consultants’ Services
.
The following table 
specifies methods of procurement, other than Quality-and-Cost-based Selection, 
which may be
 used for consultants’ services.  The Procurement Plan shall specify 
the circumstances under which such methods may be used. 
Procurement Method
(a)  Selection Based on Consultants’ Qualifications 
(b)  Least Cost Selection
 
(c)  Selection Based on a Fixed Budget 
(d)  Single Source Selection 
(e)  Individual Consultants 
(f)  Use of Non Governmental Organizations  
(g)  Procurement Agent 
D. 
Review by the Bank of Procurement Decisions
Except as the Association shall otherwise determine by notice to the Recipient, 
the following contracts shall be subject to Prior Review by the Association: 
(a)  each contract for goods or non-consultant services estimated to cost the 
equivalent of $200,000 or more; (b) the first three (3) contracts for goods,  
non-consultant services, or works procured on the basis of National Competitive 
Bidding; (c) each contract for goods, non-consultant services, or works procured 
on the basis of Direct Contracting; (d) each contract for works
 
estimated to cost 
the equivalent of $500,000 or more; (e) the first three (3) contracts for works 
procured on the basis of Shopping; (f) each contract for consultants’ services 
provided by a firm estimated to cost the equivalent of $100,000 or more; (g) each 
contract for consultants’ services provided by an individual estimated to cost the 
equivalent of $50,000 or more; and (h) each contract for consultants’ services 
(provided by a firm or an individual) procured on the basis of Single Source 
Selection.  All other contracts shall be subject to Post Review by the Association.
 
Section IV. 
Withdrawal of the Proceeds of the Financing
A. General 
1. 
The Recipient may withdraw the proceeds of the Financing in accordance with 
the provisions of this Section and such additional instructions as the Bank may 
specify by notice to the Recipient, to finance Eligible Expenditures as set forth in 
the table in paragraph 2 below. 
Page  15
-
14  -  
 
 
 
2. 
The following table specifies the categories of Eligible Expenditures that may be 
financed out of the proceeds of the Financing
 (“Category”), the allocations of the 
amounts of the Financing to each Category, and the percentage of expenditures to 
be financed for Eligible Expenditures in each Category: 
 
Category 
Amount of the 
Financing Allocated 
(expressed in SDR) 
Percentage of 
Expenditures to 
be Financed 
(1) Improving Quality of 
First Cycle of Basic 
Education (Part 1 of Project) 
 
6, 850,000 
100%
 
(2) Increasing Access to 
Education (Part 2 of Project) 
 
(a) Ministry at the time 
responsible for education 
 
(b) National Investment 
Agency of Territorial 
Authorities 
 
2,330,000 
 
12,660,000 
 
100% 
 
100% 
(3) Strengthening of 
Institutional Management 
Capacities in Education 
Sector, and Program 
Coordination (Part 3 of 
Project) 
 
1,300,000 100% 
(4) Unallocated 
    860,000 
 
-
TOTAL AMOUNT 
 
24,000,000 
 
B. Withdrawal 
Period 
 
The Closing Date is December 31, 2009. 
Page  16
-
15  -  
 
 
 
Section V. 
Other Undertakings
1. 
The Ministry of the Recipient at the time responsible for education shall, no later 
than October 31 of each year of Project implementation, submit to the 
Association and to other development partners an annual action plan, in form and 
substance satisfactory to the Association, for the subsequent calendar year, 
setting out the activities to be carried out during the year and the cost of such 
activities. 
2. 
The Ministry of the Recipient at the time responsible for education shall, no later 
than October 31 of each year of Project implementation, submit to the 
Association for approval an annual action plan, in form and substance 
satisfactory to the Association, in respect of training of personnel of said 
Ministry and teachers in the subsequent calendar year. 
3. 
The Recipient shall transmit to the Association, no later than May 31 of each 
year of Project implementation, the results, in form and substance satisfactory to 
the Association, of the annual audits of school construction and textbook 
management carried out in the territory of the Recipient during the preceding 
12 months. 
4. 
The Recipient shall transmit to the Association, no later than August 31, 2007 
and 2009, the results, in form and substance satisfactory to the Association, of the 
Learning Assessments carried out in the territory of the Recipient during the 
preceding two (2) years. 
Page  17
-
16  -  
 
 
 
SCHEDULE 3
 
Repayment Schedule 
Date Payment Due 
Principal Amount of the Credit 
repayable 
(expressed as a percentage)* 
On each March 1 and September 1: 
 
Commencing September 1, 2016 to and including 
March 1, 2026 
 
1% 
Commencing September 1, 2026 to and including 
March 1, 2046 
 
2% 
*The percentages represent the percentage of the principal amount of the Credit to be 
repaid, except as the Association may otherwise specify pursuant to Section 3.03 (b) of 
the General Conditions. 
Page  18
-
17  -  
 
 
 
APPENDIX 
Definitions 
1. 
“Academy of Education” means the Recipient’s entity established and operating 
pursuant to the Recipient’s Decree No. 00-527/P-RM of October 26, 2000 and 
which is responsible for education at the regional level. 
2. 
“Administrative and Financial Directorate” (
Direction Administrative et 
Finan
cière
,
DAF) means the functional unit responsible for administration and 
finance 
of
the Recipient’s Ministry at the time responsible for education. 
3. 
“Cabinet Council” means the cabinet of the Minister at the time responsible for 
education which is referred to in Section I.A.2 (a) of Schedule 2 to this 
Agreement and whose responsibilities are set out in said Section. 
4. 
“Category” means a category set forth in the table in Section IV of Schedule 2 to 
this Agreement. 
5. 
“Consultant Guidelines” means the “Guidelines: Selection and Employment of 
Consultants by World Bank Borrowers” published by the Bank in May 2004. 
6. 
“Direct Support to Improve School Productivity” (
Appui direct à l’amélioration 
des rendements scolaires
,
ADARS) means the 
Recipient’s scheme for provision 
of grants for the purchase of school supplies to schools in the first cycle of basic 
education which have an operational School Management Committee (as 
hereinafter defined). 
7. 
“Environmental and Social Management Framework Plan” means the framework 
plan of May 2006 adopted by the Recipient and setting out: (i) mitigation, 
enhancement, monitoring and institutional measures identified by the Recipient 
to eliminate any adverse environmental and social impacts of Project activities, 
offset them, or reduce them to acceptable levels, or enhance positive impacts; and 
(ii) procedures, including related compensation measures, to be applied in the 
event of the physical displacement of persons affected by Project activities, as 
shall have been agreed with the Association for purposes of Project 
implementation, as the same may be amended from time to time with the 
concurrence of the Association, and such term includes any schedules to the 
Environmental and Social Management Framework Plan. 
Page  19
-
18  -  
 
 
 
8. 
“General Conditions” means the “International Development Association 
General Conditions for Credits and Grants”, dated July 1, 2005. 
9. 
“Learning Assessment” means the reading and mathematics evaluation 
administered every two (2) years by the National Education Center (as 
hereinafter defined) to a representative sample of students in Grades 3 and 5 in 
order to assess students’ learning achievements. 
10. 
“National Education Center” means the Recipient’s entity established and 
operating pursuant to the Recipient’s Law No. 00-90 of December 26, 2000 and 
which is responsible, 
inter alia
,
for carrying out Learning Assessments and 
textbook management.  
11. 
“National Investment Agency of Territorial Authorities” (
Agence Nationale 
d’Investissement des Collectivités Territoriales
,
ANICT
)
means the Recipient’s 
entity established and operating and pursuant to the Recipient’s Law No. 00-42 
of July 7, 2000, which is responsible for financing Territorial Authorities (as 
hereinafter defined) and whose responsibilities under the Project are set out in 
Section I.A.3 (b) of Schedule 2 to this Agreement.  
12. 
“Planning and Statistics Unit” (
Cellule de la Planification et des Statistiques
,
CPS) means the functional unit responsible for statistics and planning at the 
Recipient’s Ministry at the time responsible for education. 
13. 
“Procurement Guidelines” means the “Guidelines: Procurement under IBRD 
Loans and IDA Credits” published by the Bank in May 2004. 
14. 
“Procurement Plan” means the Recipient’s procurement plan for the Project, 
dated May 26, 2006 and referred to in paragraph 1.16 of the Procurement 
Guidelines and paragraph 1.24 of the Consultant Guidelines, as the same shall be 
updated from time to time in accordance with the provisions of said paragraphs. 
15. 
“Program” means the program designed to develop the Recipient’s education 
sector, as set forth or referred to in the Recipient’s Law No. 99-046 of 
December 28, 1999. 
16. 
“Project Implementation Procedures Manual” means the manual adopted by the 
Recipient and the Project Implementing Entity pursuant to Section 5.01 (b) of 
this Agreement, and setting out implementation, organizational, administrative, 
monitoring and evaluation, environmental and social monitoring and mitigation, 
Page  20
-
19  -  
 
 
 
financial management, disbursement and procurement arrangements, as shall 
have been agreed with the Association for purposes of Project implementation, as 
the same may be amended from time to time with the concurrence of the 
Association, and such term includes any schedules to the Project Implementation 
Procedures Manual. 
17. 
“School Management Committee” (
Comités de Gestion
 Scolaire, CGS) means 
the association of parents, teachers, students and the community, which is 
responsible for the execution of resources provided under the Direct Support to 
Improve School Productivity scheme. 
18. 
“Steering Committee” means the Recipient’s entity referred to in 
Section I.A.2 (b) of Schedule 2 to this Agreement and whose responsibilities 
under the Project are set out in said provision. 
19. “Teacher 
Training 
Institute” 
(
Institut
 de Formation des Maîtres
,
IFM) means the 
Recipient’s entity responsible for the training of teachers in basic education. 
20. 
“Territorial Authority” means the local authority established and operating 
pursuant to the Recipient’s Law No. 93-008 of February 11, 1993 as modified by 
the Recipient’s Law No. 96-056 of October 16, 1996, and the Recipient’s Law 
No. 95-034 of April 12, 1995 as modified by the Recipient’s Law Nos. 98-010 of 
June 15, 1998 and 98-066 of December 30, 1998. 
21. 
“Training” means the training of persons involved in Project-supported activities, 
such term including study tours, and costs incurred for such purpose include 
travel and subsistence costs for training participants, costs associated with 
securing the services of trainers, rental of training facilities, preparation and 
reproduction of training materials and other costs directly related to course 
preparation and implementation.  
22. 
“Vocational Training and Apprenticeship Support Fund” (
Fonds d’Appui à la 
Formation Professionnelle et à l’Apprentissage
,
FAFPA) means
 the Recipient’s 
entity under the Ministry at the time responsible for vocational training 
established and operating pursuant to the Recipient’s Law No. 97-023/AN-RM of 
April 14, 1997, and which is responsible for provision of support to vocational 
training through youth apprenticeships.