Namibia - Support to the Namibia National Council on Higher Education

Project Summary

Approval Date	03 Feb 2016
Signature Date	10 May 2016
Planned Completion Date	30 Sep 2019
Last Disbursement Planned Date	30 Sep 2019
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Social
DAC Sector Code	11420
Commitment	U.A 396,985
Status	Completion

Project General Description

The proposed intervention will finance technical and other support towards strengthening institutional and human capacity of National Council of Higher Education (NCHE). The technical assistance to be financed with the Middle Income Country (MIC) resources will allow the recruitment of a quality assurance expert to strengthen NCHE staff capacity, coordinate and advise NCHE on auditing higher education institutions and establishing quality assurance standards. The intervention is in line with the Bank's Ten Year Strategy (2013-2023) through its support to knowledge generation and integrating inclusive growth in its investment agenda. The provision of grant resources from the MIC Fund forms part of the efforts by the Bank Group to establish a pipeline of operations in Namibia.

Project Objectives

The project objective is to support the capacity strengthening of the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE), which is the institution responsible for ensuring quality assurance in Namibia's higher education system.

Beneficiaries

The main beneficiaries of this project are NCHE, Higher Education Institutions, Public Service Commission, Private Sector, teachers and students.

Participating Organization

Funding

Middle Income Countries Fund

Extending

Government Of Namibia

Implementing

Ministry of Education and Culture

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-NA-IAD-004
Last Update	30 Nov 2022

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Contact Details

Name	BESONG Raymond Eyoh
Email	r.besong@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Namibia

Coordinates	Location Name
-22 17	Namibia

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Grant Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	Other Technical Assistance

Commitments

U.A 396,985

Middle Income Countries Fund

U.A 396,985

Disbursements

Document Type	Language	Document
Evaluation Report	en	PN10901 SR EN
Project Completion Report	en	PR10997 SR EN
Expression of interest	en	EOI - Namibia - Post of Technical Assistant for Capacity Building in Programme Accreditation and Institutional Audit under NCHE Project
Project Completion Report	en	viewer
Project Completion Report	fr	viewer
Contract	en	listing of awarded contracts from 2014 to 2019 as at october 2019
Contract	en	listing of awarded contracts from 2014 to 2019 as at january 2020
Contract	en	listing of awarded contracts from 2015 to 2020 as at february 2021

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value	Actual Year	Actual Value
Number of Quality Assurance (QA) experts at national level	Number	2016	40	2020	110
Time taken to complete Self-evaluation Report and Institutional Portfolio respectively	Month	2016	3	2020	4
Number of Programmes accredited	Number	2016	27	2020	34
Number of Institutions audited	Number	2016	3	2020	1
Number of staff trained in Quality Assurance (QA)	Number	2016	5	2020	3
Number of training workshops conducted (for new institutions)	Number	2016	3	2020	4
Existence of an agreed upon standardized data collection instrument	Number	2016	1	2020	1
Local peer reviewers trained on matters pertaining to quality assurance in higher education	Number	2016	60	2020	67
Local peer reviewers trained on matters pertaining to quality assurance in higher education - of which women	Number	2016	32	2020	36
Participation in the International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa (ICQAHEA) with UNAM	Number	2016	200	2020	253
Participation in the International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa (ICQAHEA) with UNAM - of which women	Number	2016	64	2020	81