Programmes 2006–2010: Quality Education
Access to Primary and Secondary Education
Secondary schoolgirls, Tekirdağ, Northwestern Turkey, 2006.
Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2006
Goal
Access to Primary and Secondary Education aims to sustain efforts to eliminate gender disparities in primary school enrolment with the participation of local authorities, non–governmental organisations (NGOs), local media, and communities. The project also seeks to encourage higher levels of enrolment for girls in secondary education.
Results achieved so far
- The Haydi Kızlar Okula! girls’ education campaign led to the enrolment of 231,879 girls in primary education between 2003 and 2006 as well as an additional 114,734 boys.
- The Catch–up Education Programme will be rolled–out nationwide at the beginning of 2008, giving 500,000 boys and girls between 10 and 14 years of age who dropped–out or never enrolled in school a second chance to complete their basic education.
- Since Haydi Kızlar Okula! was launched, the Ministry of National Education (MONE) has built more than 101,497 new classrooms with funding from the EU and private sector organisations.
- Haydi Kızlar Okula! contributed to an 80% expansion of the Social Solidarity and Assistance Fund’s (SYDTF) disbursement of conditional cash transfers, which encourages and enables low–income families to send their children to school. Haydi Kızlar Okula! also advocated disbursing a higher amount for girls as an added incentive to help overcome gender discrimination in girls’ enrolment.
- MONE reports improved learning achievements in primary school boys and girls regarding children’s rights, gender equality and life skills in general since the introduction of the revised primary school curriculum.
- A data collection and monitoring system has been introduced which will provide accurate information and statistics, disaggregated by gender, regarding primary education attendance and performance.
- The continuing campaign for gender parity in primary school enrolment has been sustained in provinces with high gender gaps and expanded to include secondary–school–aged girls.
Project Partners
MONE, the Ministry of Interior (MOI), NGOs, the EU, the World Bank, the private sector and the media.
Creating a Child–friendly School Environment
Students at a child–friendly school in Van, Eastern Turkey.
Photograph by Rana Mullan © UNICEF Turkey 2006
Goal
Creating a Child–friendly School Environment focuses on improving the quality of primary education using both regular and additional resources to ensure that primary school children can study and develop their potential in a positive environment.
Results achieved so far
- MONE reports improved learning achievements in primary school boys and girls regarding children’s rights, gender equality and life skills in general since the introduction of the revised primary school curriculum.
- The project has helped establish child–friendly criteria of active learning, reading, provision of clean drinking water, increased parent and child participation and zero tolerance for violence into a number of selected schools in pilot areas.
- A Strategy and Action Plan for primary schools to maintain a safe environment encouraging study and learning has been rolled–out nationwide.
Project Partners
MONE, MOI, teachers, parents, and children.
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