GTZ is now GIZ - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Since 1 January 2011, GIZ has brought together under one roof the long-standing expertise of DED, GTZ and Inwent. For further information, go to www.giz.de/.
Since 1 January 2011, GIZ has brought together under one roof the long-standing expertise of DED, GTZ and Inwent. For further information, go to www.giz.de/.
 |
|
Contact person
|
Promotion of Basic Education and TrainingProject description
Title: Promotion of Basic Education and Training
Context
Classes in tents and poorly trained teachers are part of everyday school life in most regions of Afghanistan. Roughly two-thirds of all schools have been destroyed or damaged after nearly thirty years of war. Moreover, there is a shortage of school furniture, books and teaching materials together with a lack of qualified teachers. After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, a shortage of teachers meant that many school-leavers were appointed as teachers after completing secondary school without any additional training. Afghanistan will need an estimated additional 135,000 teachers by 2012. Around 72 percent of Afghans are currently illiterate. Some 600,000 children now start school each year and the rates of enrolment are continuing to rise. Approximately 70 percent of the population is below the age of 21. ObjectiveMore and more children and young people, especially girls and young women, make successful use of the improved courses offered by basic and vocational schools. ApproachThe programme is supporting the implementation of the National Education Strategic Plan for Afghanistan (NESP) 2006 – 2010, which has four components:
The Ministry and its downstream authorities have improved planning and management skills thanks to advisory services on sectoral policy and the holistic development of expertise and potential. The experts and managers responsible at a national and provincial level are receiving specialist training. The quality of basic education and vocational training should improve as a result. Girls and young women are gaining increased access to secondary schools, teacher training and vocational courses in this way. The programme involves cooperation between GTZ, KfW Entwicklungsbank and the German Development Service (DED). The effects of this cooperation are complementing and strengthening each other reciprocally by virtue of cooperation with other donors and national non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Financial cooperation (FC) contributions are furnished in components 2 and 3: expanding infrastructure and improving equipment at five teacher training institutes and experimental schools, at other schools (for girls) as well at the Kabul Technical School. DED experts are being deployed to training and continuing education events for teachers and are involved in training experts and managers. Results achieved so farSince 2002, German development cooperation has helped to improve the conditions for better basic education, teacher training and continuing education, as well as for reforming the education sector in Afghanistan. A new partnership agreement between the Ministry of Education and donors is playing a key role in donor harmonisation and strengthening the Ministry of Education's management capacity. The teacher training department's planning and management skills have improved substantially thanks to comprehensive restructuring and organisational development measures. A modern national curriculum for teacher training has been developed and is being used. The number of female trainee teachers has undergone above-average growth throughout the country. Badakhshan, Balkh, Herat and Kabul are leading the way, with women accounting for more than half of the student body in these regions. In the south, women at least make up one-quarter of trainee teachers in Nangarhar. A four-week nationwide training course for 150 vocational school teachers took place in January 2009. 
Downloads
Further information
|
GIZ worldwide |