Improving the quality of education

The project aims to increase school attendance and the quality of education provided in seven rural schools in the Northern Rangelands Trust community conservancies. Specific activities include improving the school infrastructures together with increasing the didactic and pedagogic capacities of teachers and directors. Teaching materials will be elaborated to contextualize schooling to local realities. Awareness raising about the importance of schooling, in particular for young girls, will increase the parents’ involvement with schooling and reduce school absenteeism. Parents who have been sensitized will organize school committees in order to continue to improve the quality and relevance of schooling in the future. By the end of the project, the pass rate of primary education exams will have increased by 40% and average school enrollment by 25%.

ICEP (Institut zur Cooperation bei Entwicklungs-Projekten) is an Austrian NGO founded in 1998 that contributes to efforts to alleviate poverty in developing countries. In so doing, it seeks to develop local capacities, together with local partners, to ensure that people can live from their own work and that improvements are self-sustaining. For this project, ICEP will work with the local organisation the Northern Rangelands Trust.