GT/BASIC EDUCATION

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The project will assist the Government in achieving its goal of providing a minimum of four years of education to at least 80 percent of all six to nine year olds by 1991. This will be accomplished by : (i) expanding the existing school capacity at the lower primary level and extending an existing distance education program to the upper primary level; (ii) increasing the demand for education through programs such as public campaigns and support for school nutrition programs; and (iii) providing learning materials, and a program of studies to identify and define areas for further quality and efficiency improvements. Also financed will be the strengthening of management at the Ministry of Education at the central level, and decentralizing to, and strengthening of administration at the regional and school levels.