| Title | The World Bank’s Involvement in Education Reform |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Interview with Amira Kazem |
| Contributor | Linda Herrera (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0489.12 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0489/chapters/10.11647/obp.0489.12 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Linda Herrera |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-11-17 |
| Long abstract | The World Bank and Egypt’s Ministry of Education and Technical Education negotiated a $500 million loan, ‘Supporting Egypt Education Reform Project’ (2018-2025) which includes five components around early childhood education, teachers and education leaders, assessment reform, education technology infrastructure and services, project management and communication, and monitoring and evaluation. Amira Kazem, Senior Operations Officer for the Middle East and North Africa at the World Bank, explains the role of the Bank in education sector reform and the process of negotiations and decision-making about a loan. She illustrates different ways she keeps the project on track by organizing institutional capacity building and working with other international providers. |
| Page range | pp. 205–216 |
| Print length | 12 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was director of the Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project in Egypt and served as an international education advisor. A social anthropologist with expertise in the Middle East and North Africa, her research and teaching cover a range of areas including education and power, youth studies, citizenship education and critical democracy, technology and society, and international education development. Her books include, Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles (American University in Cairo Press, 2022), Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (with A. Bayat, University of California Press, 2021), Revolution in the Age of Social Media (Verso, 2014), Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East (Routledge, 2014), Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (with A. Bayat, Oxford University Press, 2010), and Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (with C. A. Torres, State University of New York Press, 2006).