Peru School Infrastructure Programmatic Approach

The Peru School Infrastructure Programmatic Approach was a series of analytical activities intended to build on efforts by Peru’s Ministry of Education to formulate the country’s first national school infrastructure plan (NSIP). Initially, the project supported an analysis of the results of an infrastructure census conducted by the Ministry of Education in 45,000 school facilities in 2014, in addition to a seismic risk assessment of about 2,000 public school facilities in the Lima metropolitan area. In 2015, these results informed Plan Lima, a short-term strategy developed by the government to intervene in school buildings at risk of collapse. This was followed by a number of studies conducted for the preparation of the NSIP. Finally, in 2017, the Ministry of Education formally adopted the NSIP, which is under implementation.  

Activities supported by the World Bank

• Formulation of a proposal for a National School Infrastructure Plan (NSIP)

• Analytical work in the following areas:

             1. Estimation of the student population to 2025

             2. Analysis of census data and estimation of intervention needs

             3. Development of a guidance note for the improvement of water and sanitation facilities in school infrastructure

             4. Property and land titling of school infrastructure

             5. Proposal for a territorial development model for the localization of school infrastructure

             6. Methodology for education infrastructure spending projections

             7. Capacity-building strategies for regional governments to implement the NSIP

• Seismic risk assessment of public schools at the national level

• Analysis and testing of retrofitting alternatives to develop innovative and affordable engineering solutions, in partnership with Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) and the Peruvian-Japanese Center for Seismic Research and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID) of the National Engineering University (UNI), with support from the University of Los Andes of Colombia

• Workshops to share international experiences and lessons learned on selected school infrastructure topics

Main outputs

• National School Infrastructure Plan (NSIP)

• Technical reports on school infrastructure topics to inform the NSIP

• Technical incremental retrofitting guide for 780-PRE school buildings

• Workshops on the territorial planning of school infrastructure, based on the experience of Colombia, and on management of school infrastructure and the experience of countries in Central Asia and Europe

• South-South cooperation between Peru and Brazil on development of norms and regulations for school infrastructure