• Increased Equity of Access to Education.
  
  
  
• Enhanced Quality and Relevance of Education.
  
  
  
• Improved Policy, Governance, and Service Delivery.
  

• Promoting Equity by Enabling All Children in the Country to Access and Complete Basic and Secondary Education.
  
• Improving the Quality of Basic and Secondary Education.
• Enhancing the Economic Efficiency and Equity of Resource Allocation.
• Strengthening Education Governance & Service Delivery.
  

 Feasibility Study – 20 th April 2006  

 Fact Finding – 6 th to 21 st March 2007  

 Approval Mission – 5 th to 15 th June 2007  

 Loan Negotiations – 17 th to 18 th October 2007  

 Board Approval – 26 th November 2007  

 Loan Agreement Signing – 18 th December 2007  

 Loan Effectiveness – 7 th March 2008  

 Project Completion – 31 st December 2012  

 Loan Closing – 30 th June 2013  

Source

SLRM

USDM

%

  ADB / ADF Loan

6955

65

61.90

 ADB / ADF Grant

1070

10

9.53

 ADB / AIDS - HIV Grant

535

5

4.77

 GOSL

2675

25

23.80

 TOTAL

11235

105

100

 Upgrading & Development of 150 Secondary Schools (ISURU School Program)

 Local Training

 Development of Centre of Excellence in English Education (CEIEE)

 Upgrading of Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological  Education (SLIATE)

 Implementation of Center for Education Leadership Development (CELD) Meepe

 Career Guidance and Social Marketing Programs

  ICT facilities for 2125 Type II schools

 Provision of Consultancies services for educational quality improvement.

 Provision of 30,000 Scholarships (Sisudiriya & Special Scholarship for School Leavers)

 HIV AIDS and Health Education Programs

 Special Programe PILL (ICT Excellence Awarding System)

 Providing ICDL/CAL (International Computer Driving License) Capacity building training for   10600 Teachers  

 Providing IPICT International Pedagogical ICT License 18000  Teachers

 Strength SBA (School Based Assessment)

 Established MIS (Management Information System)

 Special Financial Grant for Higher Order Learning Processes in Isuru Schools