BPRM-USA through IRC

Support to COPE; funded by BPRM through the IRC

 

Project location

NWFP & FATA

Project start and end dates

2005-06

Project schedule

• Provide educational

• opportunities to over 35,000 Afghan students through direct employment support to 488 teachers and other monitoring and support staff to the formal schools in different refugee camps of NWFP

• Improve teachers performance and students achievements through elaborated supervision and monitoring programs

In brief:- 

1. The students of grade 1-6, where these teachers are deputed receive continued access to formal education. The students stand a better chance of completing and moving to higher grades and do not drop out due to non-availability of teachers and an acceptable teacher student ratio of around 1:56 is maintained instead of 1:75 

2. Teachers are trained through in-service training courses, and monthly monitoring and feedback of targeted schools and teachers in different refugee camps are conducted. Focal point trainings are conducted to improve performance of the teachers. 

3. Supervision and monitoring show improved students' performance in relevant subjects. 

4. Classrooms observations conducted to provide feedback and improve teacher performance. 

Project description

BEFARE worked with the IRC to support the on-going Community Oriented Primary Education (COPE) project. Support from PRM/IRC was used to complement provision of education services to over 35,000 students, 38 head teachers, 388 teachers and other school staff. The support provided through this facility was directly geared towards development of the prevailing condition of Afghan refugees through sustenance of the provision of basic education for the refugee children and to shore up the support to the development of human resource base of trained teachers, who could contribute to the educational system inside Afghanistan after repatriation.