Zanzibar Basic Education Improvement Project

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The development objective of Tanzania's Zanzibar Basic Education Improvement Project is to improve completion of lower secondary education with successful performance among students. The project will provide infrastructure for expansion of junior and senior secondary education and will provide learning materials and textbooks for upper primary classes and for all secondary classes. In addition, the project will provide for significant support of teacher upgrading programs. To achieve this, the project will support the construction of nineteen new schools; support the in-service training of teachers of mathematics and science; purchase and distribution of secondary school textbooks in four subjects for all students in secondary school and textbooks for science subjects; support for science education for girls and provision of life skills, including HIV/AIDS, gender and environmental awareness; and revision of primary curriculum and provisions of appropriate learning materials.