Gambia, The - Africa Program for Education Impact Evaluation 2011

This impact evaluation was designed to evaluate Whole School Development (WSD) program, a comprehensive school management and capacity building program in The Gambia. WSD provided a grant and management training to principals, teachers, and commu­nity representatives in a set of schools. In order to be able to separate the impact of the capacity building component from the grant, the second intervention group received the grant but did not receive the training. These two interventions were compared to a control group that received neither the grant nor the training. Each of 273 Gambian primary schools were randomized to one of the three groups. A grant of US$500 was given to all the schools in the WSD and the grant-only groups after a school development plan was presented. The schools were required to spend the funds on activities pertaining broadly to learning and teaching. This study is part of the broader World Bank's Africa Program for Education Impact Evaluation. The Gambia Bureau of Statistics, under the supervision of the research team, collected the data for this study. The baseline data was collected in 2008 at the onset of the study, the first round of follow-up data was collected in 2009, the second round of follow-up data was collected in 2010, and the endline data was collected in 2011.The endline survey is documented here. All other rounds of this impact evaluation are published in the Microdata Library.