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Pakistan
>> Regional Overview >> Pakistan Overview Program Data Sheet
391-003
USAID PROGRAM: Pakistan
PROGRAM TITLE: Primary Education and Literacy (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Pakistan Primary Education and Literacy Program, 391-003
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $10,000,000 DA; $5,000,000 ESF
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $21,500,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 2001 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: This program proposes to— · assist the Government of Pakistan to improve education policy-planning and training; · train teachers and develop curriculum; · foster girls education; and · develop community and private partnerships.
Inputs, Outputs, and Activities: FY 2002 Program: The U.S. will support the Government of Pakistan to implement its National Education Policy. The USAID program will be nationwide, although areas bordering Afghanistan are expected to get a disproportionate share of help. Program focus will be on primary education and literacy. Components will include the following:
Education Policy, Planning, and Administration: Improve the content and implementation of government basic education policies, working with district, provincial, and central government authorities and institutions. This will be accomplished by providing technical assistance and support district, provincial, and national education authorities and institutions. In-country and U.S. training will be provided for key administrators, with particular emphasis on girls’ education, adult literacy (especially women) and out-of-school youth.
Teacher Training and Curriculum: The U.S. program will expand teacher training and curriculum materials to improve the quality of public sector basic education, and as by-product offer an alternative to the madrassas. There are roughly 350,000 government primary school teachers and 75,000 private primary school teachers in Pakistan. The training program will operate in every province using the 123 teacher training institutions.
Fostering Girls’ Education: The program will implement activities that remove barriers to girls’ education and help attract and retain girls in school, including classroom modifications and improvements, and technical assistance to help implement appropriate policies.
Community and Private Partnerships: The program will develop public-private partnerships and strengthen community involvement to increase the level of resources available for education and adult and youth literacy programs, and improve the quality of education. USAID has already started this effort through a grant with the Aga Khan Foundation that is working with 50-60 public, private and NGO schools in Sindh and Baluchistan Provinces.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID will use FY 2003 funds to build on the work begun in the first two years of the program. The FY 2003 program will help the Government of Pakistan and its Ministry of Education to undertake teacher training, improved planning and administration of schools at the provincial level, and to help remove obstacles to achieving universal access to education in five years.
SUBMISSION OF THIS PROGRAM DATA SHEET CONSTITUTES FORMAL RENOTIFICATION OF USAID’S INTENT TO OBLIGATE FY 2002 FUNDS FOR THE ACTIVITIES DESCRIBED ABOVE. Performance and Results: To be determined.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: Aga Khan Foundation, The Asia Foundation, Education Development Center, and others to be determined.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
391-003 Pakistan Primary Education and Literacy Program DA ESF Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 0 0 Expenditures 0 0 Unliquidated 0 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 10,000 5,000 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 10,000 5,000 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 21,500 0 Future Obligations 0 0 Est. Total Cost 31,500 5,000
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