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Human Capacity Development
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935-001CENTRAL OPERATING UNIT: Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade: Office of Human Capacity Development (EGAT/HCD) PROGRAM TITLE: Basic Education STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Improved and Expanded Basic Education, Especially for Girls, Women and Other Under-served Populations, 935-001 STATUS: Continuing PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $7,260,000 DA PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $7,660,000 DA INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1995 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004
Summary: USAID’s program to improve the quality and efficiency of basic education includes:
- partnerships with civil society in developing countries to decentralize education planning and make it more responsive and accountable to local communities;
- community-level interventions to improve and expand formal and non-formal basic education programs. Special clients include girls, HIV/AIDS orphans and other under-served populations. Activities include the use of radio, the internet and computer technologies;
- expert assistance to conduct education sector analyses, develop national policies, identify technical gaps, and monitor and evaluate education program results; and
- collaboration and leadership within the development community through the Education for All (EFA) Initiative to coordinate education strategies, resources, and programs, get more children into school, and improve financial accountability.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: USAID will fund policy reform and strengthening host-country education capacity. This money will provide for expert assistance and pilot programs at the local and country levels while facilitating strategy and resource coordination and leveraging U.S. Government funding at the regional and global levels. USAID will provide technical assistance to host countries interested in improving basic educational access and quality by utilizing a wide variety of technical expertise from the private sector and NGO’s. Specifically, USAID will assist host countries with policy analysis, demonstration projects and specific technical advise to address a broad range of constraints affecting adequate basic education for all. Other inputs will include needs assessments, policy reform, teaching methodology and curriculum data utilization, parental motivation and school management.
Planned FY 2003 Program: FY 2003 resources requested in this Budget Justification would expand basic education efforts to meet EFA targets in countries where access and quality are still problematic. Special attention will focus on where the impact of HIV/AIDS and conflict are the most serious and on improving donor collaboration at the global and country levels. The program will consolidate best practices by initiating a new alliance with a broader range of partners under the Educational Quality Improvement Program (EQUIP). EQUIP targets those countries in which access and quality issues are the most problematic and where they experience the greatest difficulties in meeting Education for All targets. Strategies for addressing educational challenges emerging from HIV/AIDS and conflictive environments will be included in 2003 programming.
Performance and Results: Program outcomes included better coordinated, quality education programs that brought more children into school and were more sustainable due to increased local community involvement. Program goals were to make basic education more available, acceptable and accessible in developing countries, and to raise the quality of teachers and education curricula. To measure results, USAID improved country-level and international education databases and evaluation programs to measure achievement of targets. USAID currently supports activities in basic education in 24 countries and substantial results were achieved in increasing primary school enrollment. Male gross enrollment increased 14% and female enrollment increased 9% over the last decade. The gender gap appeared to have increased slightly because of a large increase in boys’ enrollment. Access to education continued to present problems in rural areas and for the poorest children, particularly impoverished girls. However, host countries began to adopt programs that would reach the under-served by partnering with local NGOs and funneled resources through local community education teams to promote access. USAID moved to this approach in nearly all of the countries in which educational activities were operative.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: USAID anticipates the continued involvement of the American Institutes of Research, Creative Associates International Inc., Macro International Inc., LT Associates, The Mitchell Group, University of Pittsburgh, Juarez and Associates, Education Development Center, Academy for Educational Development, CARE, George Washington University, Groundwork, UNESCO, UNICEF, Concord Consortium, Howard University, Michigan State University, and Prince George’s Community College.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
935-001 Improved and Expanded Basic Education, Especially for Girls, Women, and Other Under-served Populations AEEB CSD DA DFA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 1,000 18,036 20,727 4,074 Expenditures 1,000 9,275 20,727 4,074 Unliquidated 0 8,761 0 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 0 6,589 0 0 Expenditures 0 2,227 0 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 1,000 24,625 20,727 4,074 Expenditures 1,000 11,502 20,727 4,074 Unliquidated 0 13,123 0 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 675 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 0 0 7,260 0 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 0 675 7,260 0 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 0 0 7,660 0 Future Obligations 0 0 17,848 0 Est. Total Cost 1,000 25,300 53,495 4,074
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