aoCommunity Schools: Issues And Concernsa

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The study made an analysis of the community schools established under the Ammal project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan implemented with the donor agencies of UK. The analysis was made in terms of enrollment, quality, teachers, employment opportunities, public-private partnership as well as sustainability. The study examined 90 community schools established in Districts Dir, Dera Ismail Khan and Mardan. The following questions were examined: What prompted the sponsors to establish community schools under the Ammal Project? What different roles were assigned to different partners of the Project e.g. the FEF, DPE, DFID and NGOs for funding, coordinating, monitoring and implementing the project? What was the mechanism for sustainability and replication of community schools? What benefits the project brought to the population of the three districts in terms of access, quality and employment opportunities? What recommendations the study made to address future problems of sustainability for launching similar types of projects in collaboration with other partners? The purpose of education, at the primary level; is the acquisition of basic literacy and numeric skills, appreciation of surroundings, and socialization of learners to understand and appreciate the dignity and identity of national values, culture and community. The Primary Education Development Program of the Province involved private sector and communities in promotion of access and quality of primary education. Different donors including USAID, DFID, GTZ, NEDA, UNICEF, JICA, PEP-TAC, IDA, and WFP financed the different components of the program.

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