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A boy in class with his classmates.

03 January 2020

Education

UNICEF works with the Government to provide access to education and marketable skills for Out-Of-School Children in Sierra Leone

Two children walk past a pile of stones at a stone mining site in Freetown

National Strategy for Out-of-School Children in Sierra Leone

A strategy that describes approaches that will help identify Out-of-School children, incentivise communities to support school attendance

Files available for download (1)

National Strategy for Out-of-School Children in Sierra Leone (PDF, 2 MB)

Two girls stand by the fence of a school in Freetown

Out-Of-School Children Study Sierra Leone

A report that sets out the most recent data on the scale of the problem of children being out-of-school (OOS)

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Out-Of-School Children Study Sierra Leone (PDF, 4 MB)

Sierra Leone's Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education launches a report in Freetown

02 February 2022

MBSSE, together with GPE and UNICEF launch study report on National Early Grade Reading Assessment/Early Grade Mathematics Assessment (EGRA EGMA)

A boy in class with his classmates.

17 September 2019

Local mothers help vulnerable children get back into school

UNICEF has been providing technical and financial support to partners to address the educational needs of vulnerable out-of-school children.