Secondary Education Development and Girls Access Program

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The objective of the Secondary Education Development and Girls Access Project is to support the Government of Yemen's program for improving gender equity, quality, and efficiency of secondary education in selected districts with a particular focus on girls in rural areas. The first project components is to improving equity and reducing gender gaps through demand and supply-side interventions by: (i) upgrading and furnishing school facilities; (ii) providing learning equipment and materials; (iii) developing the operating procedures and building capacity for managing the school community grants; and (iv) providing school community grants. The second project component is to enhance the quality of service delivery through: (i) capacity building to improve teaching and learning practices in the classroom; (ii) strengthening the learning assessment system, and (iii) developing capacity to improve planning, programming and data collection and analysis. The third project component is supporting secondary education policy development through the carrying out of tailor-made studies and/or related-activities. The fourth project component is project management and monitoring. Lessons learnd to ensure that cost effective and high quality components were designed. These studies include: (i) incentives to enhance girls' participation in secondary education; (ii) quality enhancement of the secondary education program; (iii) teacher professionalism; (iv) secondary school and community survey; (v) secondary education implementation structure and capacity building arrangements; (vi) physical inputs to improve access to secondary education; and (vii) private investment in secondary education.