EDUC PLANNING & REHA

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The project will support efforts to revitalize, reform, and rehabilitate the education system through these objectives : a) strengthen sector capacity to plan and implement educational policies and programs; b) improve the quality of education at the primary and secondary levels; and c) strengthen the mobilization of community resources to upgrade educational facilities. Project components include : 1) training of education managers; 2) improving the information base available to education authorities; 3) strengthen capacity to do educational research; 4) update the national educational strategy; 5) strengthen the Institute of Curriculum Development; 6) improve the methodology for teaching science courses in secondary schools; 7) further develop the capacity to prepare, distribute, and use relevant textbooks; 8) upgrade university, teacher training and secondary school libraries; 9) initiate a small pilot primary school library extension project; 10) develop a comprehensive school maintenance strategy and 11) increase community efforts to finance establishment of secondary schools.