ADB signs $75m loan for Sindh Education Project in Pakistan
The Asian Development Bank and the Government of Pakistan have signed a $75 million loan deal for the Sindh Secondary Education Improvement Project.
The funds will help improve education quality, accessibility, and gender equity of the secondary education system and infrastructure in Sindh.
The project will construct around 160 secondary school blocks on existing public school sites in some of the most deprived districts of southern Sindh. The new blocks will feature gender-segregated sanitation facilities and prayer rooms, and be fitted with solar power.
A key outcome in the project is for the newly built secondary school blocks to be managed by private sector operators.
The project is being financed through ADB’s Concessional Ordinary Capital Resources, which is offered at very low interest charges.
