QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION FOR ALL COOPERATION BETWEEM MoE and UNICEF 20052009

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QUALITY BASIC EDUCATION FOR ALL
COOPERATION BETWEEM MoE and UNICEF 2005-2009
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CPD Targets 2005-2009

• Increased access to and completion of basic
  education , especially for girls to 90
• Improved sustainable access to clean drinking
  water and sanitary facilities, especially for
  girls at selected schools at least to 35
• Enhanced national policies and child centred
  reform initiated through NPA/EFA supported in
  collaboration with other international partners.
• Review and implementation of the National Plan of
  Action/NPA through child friendly initiatives

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Challenges for the Education sector

• Overall Issues
• Declining access to the quality education
• - High drop out rate among girls
• - Lack of child friendly Learning
  Environment,
• especially poor physical infrastructure
• - Low teaching capacities and motivation
• - Capacity of the Ministry of Education

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Overall Analysis of issues

• Key determents of poor access to the quality
  education
• Low quality of education, in particular
• - lack of advanced teaching tools,
• manuals
• - weak capacity skills and motivation
  of
• teachers and education official
• - out of date curriculum and innovative
  
• approaches

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Overall analysis of issues

• Current Learning Environment is suffering from
• - poor infrastructure
• - lack of clean drinking water,
• - sanitary and hygiene facilities
• Management capacity of the Ministry of Education
• - present normative and legal base for
  education
• management are of date
• - centralized management within the
• system/overlapping
• - inadequate information base of the
  education
• system

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National Priorities defined within the NSED and
PRS for 2006-2015

• Strengthening management and planning capacity at
  the Ministry of Education and regional education
  body levels for the delivery of quality education
  services
• 2. Creation of Education Management Information
  System (EMIS) in the Ministry of Education to
  improve government decision-making and policy
  formulation
• 3. Improving the physical infrastructure,
  material and 1 technical basis of education to
  ensure safe and child-friendly learning
  environment for the children

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Project I Education For All

• Sub-project I Education Reform Policy and
  Strategy Development
• Objectives
• Increase analytical and evaluation capacity of
  Ministry of Education
• Support introduction of Global Education
  Initiative

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Project II Child Friendly Schools

• Sub-project I Improved Quality of Education in
  Priority
• Districts
• Objectives
• Child centered education reform in priority
  districts
• Enhance existing curriculum through infusion of
  child-centered approach Improve capacity of the
  In-service Training Institute staff
• Enhance knowledge and life skills of girls

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Objectives for 2006

• access to and completion of basic education ,
  especially for girls increased to 90 in 5
  selected districts by end of 2006
• sustainable access to clean drinking water and
  sanitary facilities and hygiene practices
  improved to 35 at 5 selected schools at least
  by end of 2006
• Implementation of the child centred reform within
  the framework of NSED/EFA is implemented by the
  Ministry of Education with the support of UNICEF
  and in-country donor community
• Ministry of Education MOE has capacity and tools
  to measure learning achievements in schools and
  results will be shared by end of 2006

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Project II Child Friendly Schools

• Sub-project I Improved Quality of Education in
  Priority Districts
• Achievements
• Sanitation and hygiene activities initiated in
  additional 90 schools
• More than 2,700 children involved in water
  quality monitoring with H2S
• Rapid Drinking Water Quality Assessment carried
  out in 4 regions of Tajikistan
• Participation of more than 150 children in
  Trans-boundary River Water management Conference
  in Dushanbe
• Participation of two youth representatives at
  Oxford round table in England
• Life Skills Based Education for Girls in Isfara
• Global Education project implementation

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Strategic Directions in 2006 for better results

• Regional Level (CARK)
• Regional Policy on Education System Reform
• - CARK Education Forums and thematic group
  meeting
• - CARK Ministries of Education addresses
  girls education
• trends and challenges and develops on
  short and mid term
• Action Plans
• National level
• National Strategy for Education Development
  (NSED)
• Development of FTI CF grant proposal
• - Policy advocacy at the national level on
  Girls' Education
• Coordination on NSED/FTI CF Grant implementation
• Curriculum Development in the context of NSED
• - Measurement of learning acheivements /MLA

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Strategic Directions in 2006 for better results

• Sub-national level
• In 6 selected districts among 15 priority
  districts, as agreed in the
• country program cycle, to implement the
  program with the focus on - National
  consultation at local level on NSED
• Improve Quality of Education
• Hygiene promotion
• Life skills education, community monitoring and
  parents' education, better knowledge of
  children, teachers, local education departments
  on Child- friendly schools
• - Improve Access to Education
• - Provision of WES facilities in schools
• Mine Risk and competence skills based education
• Improving Learning Environment for Children
  through winterization and provision of essential
  supplies

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Target Groups

• Students, especially girls of primary, basic and
  secondary schools
• Teachers and PTAs
• Parents and local communities

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PARTNERSHIPS

• Government
• -Ministry of Education
• -Local Hukumats and Education departments
• -Republican Sanitary Epidemiological Station
  (SES)
• -Republican Healthy Life style center (HLSC)
• -Tajikselkhozvodoprovodstroy (Rural Water Works)
• Donors
• -ADB, ECHO, GTZ, USAID, World Bank, USAID, OSI,
  AKF
• NGOs
• NGOs Safo, Sitorai Najot, other to be
  selected

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