Development of CommunityBased Education CBE in Afghanistan

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Development of Community-Based Education (CBE)
in Afghanistan
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IRC Support to Afghan Refugees in Pakistan

• Female Education Program (FEP)
• 40 schools with 27,000 students
• 800 teachers and staff
• 54 Home-Based Schools

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• Expansion of CBE in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

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• MoE National Education Strategic Plan
• MoE commitment to MDGs
• Growing education demand from population
• Donor interest and commitment
• MoE Policies on Community-Based Education

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IRCs CBE Activities Today

• 5 year project
• April 2006 2011

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Where is CBE now?

• MoE CBE Policy
• Provincial Liaison Officers Advisor in MoE
• Linking CBE classes and MoE schools
• CBE teachers on MoE payroll

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Who does what in CBE?

• The Community
• Provides a classroom space maintains it
• Supports compensates the teacher
• Monitors the class attendance activities
• Meets regularly
• Solves problems encourages attendance

• IRC
• Trains supports the teacher
• Trains supports School Management Committees
• Provides teaching learning materials
• Monitors progress
• Advocates on behalf of CBE classes in the
  Ministry of Education

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Issues Challenges

• Scaling up Institutionalization
• Ownership (Community to MoE) and Role of NGOs
• Staff Capacity Building

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Key Strategies

• A Transitional model not a Parallel system
• Mechanism for Integration
• Flexibility of the model
• Working at different levels at the same time
• NGO coordination and Harmonization

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