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Morocco
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608-008
USAID MISSION: Morocco
PROGRAM TITLE: Keeping Rural Girls in School (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE NAME AND NUMBER: Increased Attainment of Basic Education among Girls in Selected Rural Provinces, 608-008
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,428,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $1,528,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1996 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: In support of the Administration’s call for increasing USAID’s commitment to basic education, USAID’s objective is to increase the attainment of basic education for girls in selected provinces in rural Morocco. This is achieved through integrated activities that address education supply and demand issues by—
- improving the teaching skills of rural teachers by introducing gender-sensitive and student-centered teaching methodologies to the teacher training system;
- increasing community involvement, including mothers, in their children’s schooling; and
- improving the managerial skills of the provincial staff of the Ministry of National Education (MNE).
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: During FY 2002, USAID will use its funding to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Education at both the national and provincial levels to develop national teacher training guides, to improve performance-monitoring techniques and create a testing and evaluation system for Ministry staff, and to assist in the integration of successful piloted materials and approaches at the national
level. Funds will also be used to adapt selected traditional teacher training guides to a computer-based format for use in multi-media centers located in training colleges. These will also be made available through the USAID-funded web site for the Moroccan education community. Funds will also be used to carry out—using local radio—a primary education communications campaign in the Souss-Massa-Draa region. The impact will be to create a school environment that makes children want to learn and wins the support of the community to keep girls in school.
In Morocco, where only 8% of rural girls enter middle school, King Mohammed VI has declared education a national priority. The Ministry of National Education values USAID’s leadership in improving the quality of education to keep rural girls in school. Planned FY 2003 Program: During FY 2003, USAID will continue to replicate various training guides for nationwide use by the Ministry of National Education. In addition, USAID will continue integrated community development work in the Souss-Massa-Draa pilot sites through its grantees. FY 2003 funds will also be used to assist the Ministry of National Education with decentralization efforts. In particular, USAID will strengthen the newly created regional academies that will operate as autonomous education entities in their respective regions by providing technical assistance to improve strategic planning, data collection and analysis, performance monitoring, and team and partnership building. Funds will also be used to promote the endorsement and use of materials and approaches developed by the Moroccan Education for Girls program by the regional academies.
Performance and Results: In FY 2001, USAID organized a national two-day Forum on "Education Technology and Teacher Training," to share lessons learned in the use of information technology (IT) in teacher training and education. USAID also provided IT equipment and training to the newly created Regional Academy for Education and Training in the Souss-Massa-Draa to enhance its capability to carry out education reform.
By the end of FY 2002 USAID will have completed the first year of Phase II of the Morocco Education for Girls Activity, which is dedicated to promoting wide usage of the training guides and processes developed in eight pilot provinces at the school, community, and provincial levels. The guides address the quality of teaching, community involvement in schools, and decentralized management of the education system. Validation of the guides by the Ministry of National Education for use at the national level will require their intensive and active participation in the testing of the materials and training methodologies throughout Phase II. By the end of FY 2002, USAID expects that at least two of nine USAID-produced guides will be introduced by the Ministry of National Education at the national level, i.e., used at all of Morocco’s 34 teacher training colleges. At that time, the remaining seven will be in various stages of final testing and usage. By the end of Phase II (the end of FY 2003), USAID expects all guides to be ready for use at the national level. Important outcomes of this program will be the national utilization of new teaching-learning methodologies, introduced through USAID-produced training guides on themes that include: (1) equity in the school environment, (2) school management from a partnership perspective, (3) student-centered teaching methodologies, thus better preparing all future primary school teachers for their assignments in rural Morocco. Newly graduated teachers will be able to provide boys and girls in rural Morocco with a better quality education, as they themselves have the tools to better understand the context and the challenges of their assignment and the community they are to serve. In the current positive political climate in Morocco, USAID has reason to expect successful nationwide utilization of the training products and methodologies.
Major Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: The primary contractors for the activities include Creative Associates International, Inc., with its subcontractors Management Systems International (MSI) and Save the Children. Limited support is being provided to Catholic Relief Services and the Near East Foundation in the Souss-Massa-Draa region. The principal grantee is the Ministry of National Education.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
608-008 Increased Attainment of Basic Education among Girls in Selected Rural Provinces CSD DA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 9,155 0 Expenditures 4,238 0 Unliquidated 4,917 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 1,739 0 Expenditures 3,131 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 10,894 0 Expenditures 7,369 0 Unliquidated 3,525 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 1,428 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 1,428 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 1,528 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 10,894 2,956
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