Afghanistan

To provide key inputs (i.e. textbooks) to public education students across the country to facilitate improved teaching and learning based on the existing and internationally accepted national curriculum. Special focus on reaching girls with textbooks.

Objectives:

• Distribute hygiene supplies to schools
• Train local community members, school staff and students on COVID guidelines
• Recruit and deploy volunteer teachers, especially female
• Provide teachers with online training to develop their capacity for learning assessments and remediation
• Develop and implement guidelines for student assessments and exams, supporting teachers in analyzing results
• Distribute student learning kits, teacher pedagogical support kits, and classrooms supplies
• Support remedial classes for students who have fallen below their grade level

Documents:

• Application and program document

The GPE Accelerated Funding focuses on the most vulnerable and conflict-affected school-age children, with specific emphasis on girls. Out of the 600,000 children targeted by the 2020 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) – year of project start, the project aims to support 150,000 school-age girls and boys out of school (OOSC) through community-based education (CBE) in 10 provinces in Afghanistan considered the hardest-to-reach areas.

Objective:

• Prepare skilled and competent citizens through the education system.

Documents

• Program document. September 2018
• Application for additional funding. October 2020
• Program document for additional funding. 2020
• Completion report. May 2023