Education Support Programme
A lot of issues affect negatively the development of the education in the project area. These include amongst others low enrolment/access, transition & retention rates; poor performance in national exams; poor governance in learning institutions; inadequate physical facilities e.g. classrooms, dormitories & teachers houses; marginalization of children with special needs; low staffing levels; conflicts and insecurity as well as recurrent droughts related disasters.
The objective of the program is thus to improve school performance and increase access and retention at all educational levels through support to sound school management/governance, provision of quality education, suitable pastoralist education policies and mainstreaming of children with special needs into formal education.
The key overall strategies pursued by PISP include collaboration with line ministries and other stakeholders; community sensitization and active engagement on education matters as well as lobby and advocate for pastoralist friendly education policies.
The below broad activities amongst others being implemented and or facilitated as a means to achieving the objectives for the education program.
- Recruitment and on the job training for ABE teachers
- Facilitate/lobby for inspection services for quality assurance
- Establish and support to early childhood development centers
- Capacity building for teachers and school management committees
- Establish an alumni of scholarship beneficiaries to act as role models
- Support awareness creation and education of children with special needs
- Support education of bright & needy students through a scholarship pam
- Support price giving and educational tours to enhance performance/motivation
- Support towards teaching and learning materials & infrastructure to education institutions
- Facilitate the establishment of ABE institutions (e.g. mobile schools, shepherd classes and feeder schools and functional adult education/literacy classes)
- Discuss possibilities (strategies) for a “model school