Education Projects:


>Regional Action Planning-Decision Making Program

Project time line: September 2004 – August 2009
Project geographic coverage: 15 Académies and 70 CAPs throughout the country

Project 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.

Project key activities:
• Targeted training MOE counterparts involved in the decentralization / devolution process • Support to improved action plan development
• Use of GIS to improve understanding of policy and practice on enrollment.
• Development of financial management tools to enhance the flow of resources to regions and local governments
• Improved education planning and financial management through capacity–building at national, regional, and sub-regional levels
• Targeted training of regional and sub-regional Ministry staff
• Decentralization promoted through technical analysis and policies targeting under-served populations
• Better use of statistical tools to understand the needs of populations marginalized by centralized governance





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>Support for the Quality and equity of Education

Project time line: 08/03 to 07/08
Project geographic coverage: Kidal, Gao, Tombouctou, Segou, Sikasso, Koulikoro


Project objective:
The quality of basic education for boys and girls improves in target schools to increase learning outcomes.

Project key activities:
• Teacher Training
• Curriculum development and testing
• Community Participation (for increased community involvement in increasing quality of education)
• Literacy
• NGO capacity building
• Regroups teachers from public, community, and Islamic schools (medersas) in clusters for regular on-site training and professional exchanges
• Teachers develop and implement annual professional development plans
• Benefiting teachers from 700 schools located throughout six regions of Mali


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>Ambassador’s Girls’ Scholarship Program (AGSP) World Education
Project Geographic Range: North of Mali (Tombouctou, Gao, and Kidal)

Project objective: A program 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. Initially designed and implemented by the Mission;

Project key activities
• Strong implication of Mothers’ Associations and women role model
• 5,000 scholarships for girls attending 100 primary schools in the regions of Gao, Kidal and Tombouctou, which provide funding for school fees, uniforms, books and stationary, lamps and paraffin to enable home study in the evenings
• Scholarship girls will be given the opportunity to attend remedial classes and home study groups. Peer and family support and monitoring of their school attendance enables any problems to be noticed and quickly addressed.
• Teachers are encouraged to give more classroom attention to girls and divide classroom duties fairly and parents are made aware of the importance of supporting their daughters in school.
• Mothers’ Associations play a role in the management of scholarship funds and work with school authorities and communities to encourage effective education for girls.
• Mentoring activities include the opportunity to talk to local women with notable achievements and to visit secondary schools and prepare for continued education.
• Regional girls’ days raise the profile of girls’ education and give encouragement to girls in schools

In Mali, particularly in the North, many girls do not yet get the opportunity to go to school or once there, find it difficult to continue their schooling to secondary level. This is largely due to their family’s economic situation, nomadic life style and the traditional role of women and girls in society. The Ambassador’s Girls’ Scholarship Program, funded by a White House Initiative, the Africa Education Initiative (AEI) implemented in Mali by World Education in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and 3 local NGOs, has a range of strategies to assist 5000 primary school girls to continue their education

Inter-agency commitment has been strong, particularly from Peace Corps which has stationed volunteers in Gao to support the program. This academic year, a total of 7,570 girls in 117 schools received AGSP scholarships. Since inception, over 11,500 girls have benefited from the program.

World Education has been proactive in engaging Malian partner NGOs and mobilizing private funds to support AGSP recipients beyond primary school International singer Angelique Kidjo recently announced an intent to support 75 Malian AGSP recipients through Grade 12. : . The Ambassador’s Girls’ Scholarship Program will enable more girls to progress from one class to the next (4th-6th grades), encourage higher school attendance and contribute to an improved environment for girls’ education in the North of Mali (Tombouctou, Gao, and Kidal).

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