Education in 2007 - Helping people learn
In 2007 Concern implemented projects and programmes in the education sector in 12 countries.
Concern’s education programme objective is to strengthen formal education provision among the poorer sections of society. We do this by addressing the obstacles that hinder access to and successful completion of formal primary education.
All country programmes work with communities such as school management committees, parent teacher associations, school councils etc. to build their capacity and involvement in school management and an awareness of their right to an education.
Outcomes
We feel that the main achievements of the education programme during 2007 were
as follows:
- We started new educationprogrammes in Angola, Malawi and Afghanistan.
- The lessons learned from education programmes from the 2005-2007 period were
disseminated in a conference in October 2007. - We conducted a Global Education Workshop for Concern staff in 2007.
- We successfully collaborated with partner agencies e.g. People in Need in Ethiopia and
Ibis in Mozambique. - We completed a review and analysis of educational institutions in 2007.
- We completed an audit and analysis of existing education staff and competencies.
During 2007 we conducted evaluations of seven country programmes in order to ensure
that they were meeting our underlying objectives. Overall the outcomes were positive showing that real results were being achieved with significant lasting impacts. They also indicated a few areas that could be improved, the main ones being:
- The importance of having income generating activities running in parallel with
education programmes in order to boost the attendance of vulnerable children. - The need to focus on linkages between other Concern sector programmes to better
address the out of school factors of hunger, poverty and health that block children from attending school. - The importance of adequate basic infrastructure for teacher morale and productiveness.
We will aim to incorporate these lessons into our work going forward.
