EQUIP2 Final Report.pdf - Education Policy Data Center
EQUIP2 Final Report.pdf - Education Policy Data Center
EQUIP2 Final Report.pdf - Education Policy Data Center
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<strong>EQUIP2</strong> Leader Award <strong>Final</strong> <strong>Report</strong><br />
installing a new EMIS system and dramatically increasing the accuracy of<br />
Djibouti’s education data, to improving the planning and implementation<br />
of in-service teacher education, to getting the legal framework for Parent<br />
Teacher Associations (PTAs) officially signed by the President of Djibouti,<br />
Projet AIDE helped its partners at the central ministry to achieve some<br />
remarkable improvements in the planning and management of primary<br />
education. These innovative achievements have the potential to lead to<br />
measurable impact on the access to and quality of primary education.<br />
DJIBOUTI: PROJET AIDE PHASE IV<br />
Cooperative Agreement No.: 623-LA-10-00001<br />
Award Amount: $9,500,000<br />
Dates: December 2009 – September 2013<br />
In Phase IV, Projet AIDE aims to improve education systems and policies<br />
by working with and through MENESUP (the Ministry of <strong>Education</strong>)<br />
and its related structures, including CFPEN (the national teacher training<br />
college), to improve the quality of primary education in Djibouti. It includes<br />
a crosscutting gender initiative that integrates gender strategies into all<br />
components of the project.<br />
The project is implemented through the following approaches:<br />
• Improving decentralized in-service teacher education in primary<br />
education, with a focus on improving the teaching of French reading and<br />
writing.<br />
• Increasing decentralized planning systems and supporting MENESUP to<br />
improve decentralized planning and budgeting at the school and regional<br />
levels.<br />
• Promoting community participation and parental involvement in schools<br />
through PTAs.<br />
• Improving <strong>Education</strong> Management Information Systems (EMIS) and the<br />
use of data for decentralized planning.<br />
• Providing vocational and basic literacy training for out-of-school youth to<br />
prepare them for the workplace.<br />
Decentralized Teacher Training: Projet AIDE is supporting MENESUP and<br />
CFPEN to deliver effective decentralized teacher training to approximately<br />
1,200 teachers through the development of national policy and training<br />
plans, effective use of five teacher resource centers equipped with computer<br />
labs, improved school capacity to provide ongoing workshops, and school-
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