HN COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION PROJECT

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The Community Based Education Project will improve the quality of preschool, and lower basic education grades, in targeted rural areas in Honduras, and will as well, improve the quality of inter-cultural, and bilingual education among indigenous communities. The four project components will: 1) support the application of the national curriculum in rural multi-grade, intercultural, and bilingual schools through the validation by rural teachers, of pertinent curriculum reforms, programs, and methodologies. Student learning assessments will be implemented, while teacher training programs will be enhanced; 2) expand the Honduras Community Based Program (PROHECO), through the provision of technical assistance to support the organization of community education councils, strengthen teachers basic education, and promote the organization, and training of parental committees, featuring the creation of inter-cultural, and bilingual schools; 3) establish school-based management strategies in rural areas, through the involvement of principals, teachers, parents, and students, supported by capacity building towards an education improvement planning, and improved administration of financial resources; and, 4) strengthen institutional capacity at the education departmental offices, through technical assistance provision to plan, and monitor community-based education programs.