Quality Education for All Program

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The Quality Education for All Project for Senegal supports Senegal's educational framework which aims for quality universal basic education in 2008-09. There are three main project components. The first component increases access to education by building early childhood development centers, constructing and renovating primary schools, creating neighborhood middle and secondary schools, employing multi-grade teaching strategies, identifying and implementing special education, expanding technical and vocational training, creating a network of community colleges, and supporting private higher education. The second component improves educational quality by focusing on early childhood development, a school improvement of small grants, peri-urban initiatives, school and family reading, introducing national languages in literacy training, textbooks and reading materials, school health and nutrition, the dropout and repetition initiatives, adult basic education, evaluation of student learning, teacher training, science and technology, and vocational training. The third component funds personnel management; decentralized planning; community participation; financial management; and policy, monitoring, and program evaluation.