About the Education Program
While access to education remains a problem, the greatest development challenge in Mali, and the greatest impediment to achieving universal primary enrollment, is the poor quality of education—including an inadequate infrastructure, poor pedagogic materials, lack of trained teachers, and formal education’s irrelevancy to the lives of boys and girls and their different learning needs. USAID’s objective is to support the Government of Mali’s ten-year reform plan (PRODEC) to improve the quality of basic education.
USAID’s program to improve the quality of basic education includes technical assistance and training to: provide pre-service and in-service teacher training for teachers in Grades 1-6; develop an improved national curriculum; mobilize communities to manage and advocate more effectively for public, community, and Islamic schools; and train decision-makers at decentralized levels of the Ministry of Education to link resource and budgetary allocations to desired results.
What's New in this Strategy?
- Focus on Quality not Access
- Coheres to the education sector wide approach
- Greater emphasis on decentralized structures
- Includes all geographic regions including the North
- Specific learning needs of boys and girls addressed in all areas of intervention
- Teacher Training based at the school-level
- Wide use of radio education
- Assistance is targeted to public schools, medersas, and religious schools
activities:
Teacher Training via Radio (TTvR/FIER)
Activity objective:
To build the capacity of ministry actors at the central and decentralized levels to create technology-based professional development for teachers, create on-air teacher training broadcasts of various types to enable the ministry to evaluate the kinds of radio-based training support most appropriate for Mali and train teachers to use the “virtual training centers” (VTCs) in the pre-service training institutes
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Regional Action Planning-Decision Making Program
Activity objective:
To support education system decentralization through a better understanding of those who are marginalized by centralized management and to facilitate decentralization of education system management by providing Just-In-Time support to key transitional activities.
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Support for the Quality and equity of Education
Activity objective:
Improve the quality of basic education for boys and girls in target schools to increase learning outcomes.
Activity key activities:
• Teacher Training
• Curriculum development and testing
• Community Participation (for increased community involvement in increasing quality of
education)
• Literacy
• NGO capacity building
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Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP) World Education
Activity objective:
An activity designed and implemented by the Mission focusing on supporting girls to succeed and stay in school. Provides girls with a combination of material and academic support.
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Success Story: The Personal Story of One AGSP Scholarship Recipient Date
Thanks to the Ambassador’s Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP), Badji Traore, an 11-year-old girl student at the Sidi Mahmoud School in Timbuktu, is excelling in school and dreams of becoming a doctor... Full Story
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Last updated: Monday, October 20, 2008