Impact
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UNICEF provides school packs and much-needed books for children. |
Early childhood care and development
• Increased access to early childhood care and development education. About 90% (8,499) of villages in UNICEF-assisted areas are now providing ECCD programmes.
• Home-based ECCD as an alternative form of ECCD has been institutionalized at national and local level reaching over 21,000 children in 2008.
• Culture-responsive curricula for the Bangsamoro and Indigenous children have been developed
Child-friendly school system
• Established and increased network of child-friendly schools nationwide. There are now approximately 5,300 primary schools adopting child-friendly practices.
• Extended the child-friendly school modeling to high schools with our 61 pilot child-friendly high schools
• Established the Student Tracking System (STS) which will enrich the School-based Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for the DepED’s Basic Education Sector Reform Agenda. STS serves as an early warning system to detect children at risk of dropping out and falterers and enables the school stakeholders to introduce remedial measures.
• Developed manuals and handbook for child-friendly school practices and effective approaches to teacher mentoring
• Improved community-school partnerships for school improvements and advocacy for child rights
• Contributed to the strengthening of Madrasah Education through the production of instructional materials supportive of the unified Madrasah curriculum.
Education in Emergencies
• Functional Education in Emergencies Cluster integrated into the National Emergency Clusters
• Restored teaching learning environment for about 18,000 pre-school and school-age children by supporting the repair/construction of damaged classrooms in 33 day care centers and 72 schools; provision of school supplies, and replacement of damaged library books and other learning materials
• Contributing to the strengthening the capacity of the Department of Education in disaster risk reduction and preparedness by developing DRR (Disaster Risk Reduction) manuals and piloting the training of children and teachers on DRR in selected schools.
