PRIMARY EDUCATION PROJECT

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The main objective of this Emergency Primary Education Project is to assist the government of Malawi in its effort at poverty reduction and capacity building. The project is being developed as a fast-track forerunner to an overall integrated sector operation aimed at assisting the government of Malawi implement a time-slice of its long term education sector development program. The main objectives of the program are to provide access to primary education to 90% of school-age children by the year 2005, expand access to lower secondary education, improve quality and resource use at all levels of education, and strengthen planning and management in the sector. The specific objectives of this fast-track operation are to: i) ensure that quantity gains in enrollments obtained with the introduction of free primary education and maintained through the retention of newly-enrolled children in the system; and ii) improve the quality of primary education through providing teaching and learning material, and pedagogical support to, and in service training for untrained teachers. The three main project components, all focused on primary education are: i) classroom construction; ii) pedagogical support and in-service teacher training; and iii) teaching and learning materials.