PRIMARY EDUC. III

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The Third Primary Education Project supports the broad goal of the Government to achieve universal primary education by the year 2000. The project concentrates on the Punjab province but also has some national aspects. The main objective of the project is to support the core program of the Punjab's Five-Year primary education investment program. The specific objectives include: (a) improving institutional capacity to plan, manage and implement the investment program; (b) supporting policy reform; and (c) supporting innovations in the delivery of primary education. To that end, the project entails (i) management improvement; (ii) curriculum development and materials supply; (iii) teacher training; (iv) communications/demand generation; and (v) finally, school construction. With the last component, the project supports concentrating on the building of new girls schools and providing facilities for existing shelterless girls schools. This is in line with the overall Government strategy to increase female enrollments.