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A girl smiles as she sits in a classroom at the Har Jab Jab Primary School in Mogadishu in 1996. |
UNICEF’s focus in education in Somalia is on system-wide education reforms, developing a curriculum in Somali language, textbooks, improving standards of learning, and developing Education Management Information Systems (EMIS).
The key results of these objectives include:
- Increased quality of education through providing standardized learning materials, teacher training in the use of the materials, and monitoring of teachers.
- Improved enrolment in schools through curriculum development, sensitization of teacher trainers and advisors , developing education policies in the northern zones, increased training of female teachers and work with community education committees.
- Developing alternative, Non-Formal Education (NFE) modules, including curriculum, syllabus, learners' modules and teachers' guides for literacy, numeracy, science, social studies and life skills (including HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, female genital cutting, gender and other areas) and training trainers and teachers to disseminate and use the materials.
Annual school survey
The 2003/2004 Annual Primary School Survey was conducted throughout Somalia. The data collected in this annual exercise provides a consistently updated picture of the state of primary education in the country and allows for improved planning and development of the programme. It provides a baseline from which achievements each year can be monitored and gives the latest data for use by external agencies, local education authorities, community education committees and teachers. It also contributes to the Education Management Information System database, which seeks to gather all relevant educational data to provide a hub for information on the sector.
NOTE: Statistics from the Annual Primary School Survey have not yet gone through the process of approval for inclusion in the official UNICEF statistics that appear in the State of the World's Children Report.
Strengthening Quality of the Somali Education System (SQOSES) Newsletter April 2004
One of the many ways through which support is given to the Education sector in Somalia is through the European Commission-funded Strengthening Quality of the Somali Education System (SQOSES) project implemented by UNICEF and UNESCO. Attached in pdf is the April 2004 SQOSES newsletter. For further information contact Noel Ihebuzor, Head UNICEF Somalia Education Programme: nihebuzor@unicef.org.
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