Mongolia - Improving Primary Education Outcomes for the Most Vulnerable Children in Rural Mongolia (Inglês)

The development objective of Improving Primary Education Outcomes for the Most Vulnerable Children in Rural Mongolia, aims to improve the education outcomes of some 7,500 most vulnerable children (aged 5-10) in four educationally underperforming and underserved...  Exibir mais + The development objective of Improving Primary Education Outcomes for the Most Vulnerable Children in Rural Mongolia, aims to improve the education outcomes of some 7,500 most vulnerable children (aged 5-10) in four educationally underperforming and underserved rural provinces of Mongolia. This project has four components. The first component, Strengthening school preparation programs for new school entrants (5-6 years of age) in the community, focuses on introducing and strengthening School Preparation Programs, as part of early childhood development, for those hard-to-reach nomadic children who are required to enter into school in the coming academic year, but have been left-out from the formal and/or alternative early childhood education. It has the three subcomponents as follows: (i) Development and establishment of school preparation programs; (ii) Capacity building of local community stakeholders on school preparation programs; and (iii) Mobilizing community and piloting school preparation programs. The second component, Introducing extracurricular after-school programs in schools for vulnerable children (6-10 years of age) living away from parents or home, focuses on introducing a constructive, enabling, and child-friendly environment in rural schools that incorporates child participation, play and learning, stimulation, care and protection during extracurricular hours. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Developing extracurricular after-school programs; (ii) Capacity building of local community stakeholders on extracurricular after-school programs; and (iii) Piloting extracurricular after-school program activities. The third component, aims to contribute to universal primary education enrolment and completion by piloting compensatory education programs for the lower-primary out–of-school children (school dropouts and non-school enrollers between the ages of 6-9) in the target provinces. It ahs the following subcomponents: (i) Development and establishment of compensatory distance education programs; (ii) Capacity building of local education stakeholders on compensatory distance education programs; and (iii) Mobilizing community and piloting compensatory distance education programs. The fourth component, Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and Knowledge Dissemination, aims to ensure interagency coordination for the effective implementation of the project and its link with the mainstream education policies, and to promote ownership of the project by government partners (thereby facilitating institutionalization, scaling up, and sustainability of program interventions), the project will establish a multi-stakeholder project steering committee, which will be co-chaired by the Director of Preschool, Primary and Secondary Education Department of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (MoECS) and the Country Director of save the children Japan in Mongolia.  Exibir menos -