SRSP has 70 community based schools functioning in the project areas of Kohat & Mansehra.
Primarily girls schools for communities in remote areas. But primary school age boys can also attend these CBS.
Previously funded by government for duration of 2 years under SAP PDP .
Current funding by Learning For Life (A UK based Non Govt Organization).
15 schools will be run on recurrent cost basis while the other 15 on endowment fund (one time grant) basis. Community has to raise a matching grant to supplement the fund.
These schools are managed through the village education committee (vec). Both men & women comprise the vec.
Teacher is always local preferably a woman. Building is allotted by the community.
Present enrollment is: 1296 of this 644 in kohat region & 652 in mansehra region. (ask me the updated data)
SRSP's education program has addressed problems of those children with or no access to education specifically for girls. As for the quality of education in Community Based Schools, it is being pursued by ensuring teacher training, community participation and intensive monitoring.
SRSP has utilized its education program as a platform to address primary education issues in the province in a holistic manner. The program improves the quality of education in CBS schools and provides access primarily to girls in far-flung villages of Kohat and Mansehra. During the last six years, SRSP experienced similar kind of problems that other organisations all over the country have confronted with both formal and non-formal schools i.e. quality education and sustainability of the schools.
In order to stream line its interventions in the education sector, SRSP has developed an education strategy in consultation with Sudhaar (an organization working on Education in Punjab) in March 2002. SRSP has a multi-prong strategy for qualitative and quantitative expansion of its education program. Even though the program is modest in scale, it has nevertheless given enough field level experience to SRSP staff members to feed its learning into a broader program. The current education experience provides a viable platform for looking at multi-dimensional expansion at different levels. |
