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Senegal
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685-008USAID MISSION: Senegal
PROGRAM TITLE: Educating Girls (Pillars: Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade; and Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance)
STRATEGIC SPECIAL OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Increased Girls' Access and Retention in Targeted Primary and Vocational Schools - The Education for Development and Democracy Initiative (EDDI), 685-008
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $ 700,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $ 0
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1999 STIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: Senegalese girls' attendance in school is lower than that of boys due to a variety of reasons among which are cultural constraints, inadequate financial resources available to their families, and lack of adequate sanitary facilities at schools. USAID's program to increase girls' access and retention in selected primary and vocational school includes:
- vocational training to help students better assess and prepare themselves for the realities of the local labor market and to improve the quality of their lives;
- life-skills training in health, nutrition, human rights, reproductive health, household budgeting, and computer literacy;
EDDI Senegal is assisting 97 school communities to better manage their own and other resources to provide appropriate, improved, and healthier learning environments for girl the benefits of educating girls;
- latrine construction;
- classroom rehabilitation;
- provision of school supplies;
- public awareness campaigns on
- the Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP) to help 100 disadvantaged girls with outstanding academic records complete the last three years of high school;
- innovative pilot activities that use information technologies to improve learning and teaching resources for thousands of students and their teachers in 5 elementary schools in the poor suburbs of Dakar; and
- development of community organizations to increase parental and local government support to primary schools.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSISTUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID'S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 RESOURCES FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: With DA Basic Education funds, USAID will extend activities to introduce life skills into the formal school curriculum and increase community support and involvement in primary schools to allow these new approaches to be implemented through the end of the 2002-2003 school year. The experience and lessons learned from this program will provide the basis for a new education activity under the democratic local governance objective (685-002).
Planned FY 2003 Program: No funding is requested for this Special Objective in FY 2003. USAID will, however, continue to support increased girls' access to and improved quality of basic education within the context of the democratic local governance objective.
Enrollment overall (and especially of girls) in EDDI schools is well above the regional average.
Enrollment overall (and especially of girls) in EDDI schools is well above the regional average. Performance and Results: Using Basic Education funds from the Child Survival and Diseases account allocated from EDDI, the program has increased parental and local government support to primary schools and fostered an improved school environment in 30 primary schools. With Development Assistance funds, the program is teaching girls and young women relevant skills through improved formal and informal vocational training in four vocational schools. Accomplishments to date include:
- A model information technology center with 22 computers is providing learning and teaching resources for thousands of students and their teachers in five elementary schools in the poor suburbs of Dakar;
- 20,600 Senegalese children now have pens, rulers, notebooks and other materials they need to attend and stay in school;
- In seven schools, 52 classrooms have been renovated and clean water provided, and six schools have a total of 49 new or renovated toilets (some have toilets for the first time);
- Communities are working together in new dynamic ways to get girls in school, keep them there and improve the performance of the local schools. As a result of literacy and human rights training, they have organized themselves into very active school support associations;
- 100 young, top-of-their-class girls have the means to complete high school thanks to the U.S. Ambassador's Girls' scholarship program; and
- USAID is now recognized in the donor community as a leader in promoting girls' education in Senegal.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Creative Associates International Inc. (prime) through an international non-governmental organization based in Senegal, Tostan (sub) and an African NGO (sub), empowers communities, provides school supplies, reading materials, constructs latrines, rehabilitates classrooms, introduces "life-skills" modules, conducts public awareness campaigns on the benefits of educating girls and upgrades the quality of vocational training. UNICEF (prime) works with local school districts to improve 50 primary and 8 vocational schools in the Casamance. Winrock International (prime) through an African NGO (sub) manages the Ambassador's Girls' Scholarship Program.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
685-008 Increased Girls' Access and Retention in Targeted Primary and Vocational Schools CSD DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 3,000 1,000 Expenditures 58 0 Unliquidated 2,942 1,000 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 893 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 3,000 1,000 Expenditures 951 0 Unliquidated 2,049 1,000 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 700 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 700 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 3,000 1,700
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