Report

Survival: Staying Schooled in Rural Jamaica

Improving secondary attendance, retention and re-integration

Photograph of a teacher leading a class discussion in a classroom at Drew Avenue Primary School in Kingston. UNICEF provided the school with textbooks and other supplies

UNICEF/2005/Shehzad Noorani

Highlights

Staying Schooled in Rural Jamaica encouraged schools to identify the reasons behind their students’ absenteeism and to design, implement and monitor interventions to address the challenges. The participating schools showed creativity and practicality in their solutions, which included increased investments in school gardens, apiaries and chicken rearing to provide additional school meals, as well as literacy, numeracy and parenting support and transportation stipends.

Author

UNICEF Jamaica, Ministry of Education

Publication date

January 2018