– The Global Partnership for
Education’s Board of Directors approved a grant of US$7.68 million to
support Somaliland’s efforts to extend quality education to more of its
children.
The three-year grant will support Somaliland’s Education Sector
Strategic Plan 2018-2021 which aims to increase the enrollment of girls
and boys from diverse and under-educated communities in primary and
secondary schools, improve the quality of schooling through teacher
skill training and better learning materials, and establish an effective
system to gather and analyze education data to measure progress.
The
grant will also support the building and rehabilitating of learning
spaces across the country to make them more conducive to learning,
especially for girls and develop early childhood education initiatives
that boost long-term learning performance.
"Somaliland’s future depends upon high-quality education for all our
children,” said Yasin Haji Mohamoud Hir ( Faratoon), Somliland’s
Minister of Education and Science. “GPE and Save the Children are
enabling us to build a strong and sustainable education system that will
prepare our citizens for lifetimes of productivity and prosperity. This
is what we aspired to achieve through our Education Sector Strategic
Plan."
Somaliland is affected by fragility, drought and economic crisis.
Nearly half the population of Somaliland lives in poverty with many not
being able to send their children to school. Between 2012 and 2015,
Somaliland’s primary school enrolment rate has been low at around 34
percent, and primary school completion rates were also low. Secondary
school enrollment has been even lower, though it more than doubled from
nearly 11% in 2012 to 21% in 2015. Gender parity has improved with 83
girls for every 100 boys in primary school and 88 girls for every 100
boys in secondary school. Children from rural areas and internally
displaced families are far less likely to be in school than their urban
counterparts.
"Over the last several years, Somaliland has engaged in a rigorous
process of creating a promising, long-term plan to build an education
system that will be a foundation of its nation-building program,” said
Alice Albright, Chief Executive Officer, Global Partnership for
Education. “GPE will now support the implementation of that plan to help
Somaliland move along a path of greater prosperity and stability."
Save the Children has been the GPE grant agent in Somaliland since
2017 and will continue to serve in this role for the new grant as well.
The new program is expected to begin in July 2018.
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