The Proposed Global
Partnership for Education Fund and MDTF grant in the amount of more than
Seventeen Million Dollars ($17.9 Million) and more than Five Million United
States Dollars ($5.5Million) are meant for a Revitalization Education
Development in Sierra Leone (REDiSL) Project.
The Project Development
Objective (PDO) is to improve the learning environment in targeted schools and
establish systems for monitoring of education interventions and outcomes.
“Over its three-year
implementation period, the Revitalization Education Development in
Sierra Leone (REDiSL) project is expected to directly benefit approximately
6,000 primary schools and 150 JSS in select districts.
Approximately 900,000
students in grades 1-3 levels (about 50 percent of whom are female) are
expected to benefit from the early grade reading program.”
“Indirect
beneficiaries will be all those children of primary school age (this figure is
estimated to reach 1.1 million by 2015).
“Targeted interventions like
the school grants and early childhood education will further benefit those
located in poorest districts of the country, aiming at improving the learning
environment.
“Ten percent of the teaching
workforce or approximately 4,000 teachers and administrators will have the
opportunity to complete the trainings associated with the reading program, or
the early childhood education program.
“Future classes of teaching
institutions will also benefit as teacher-educators will also be involved in
the training (development and roll out) and will in due course incorporate it
into the pre-service teaching curriculum.
The larger circle of
beneficiaries will include all teachers who will benefit from the services of
the Teaching Services Commission to be established, as well as communities,
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), district education offices, Local
Councils, and third parties involved in the project.
The Ministry of Education
Science and Technology (MEST) will benefit from the efficiency inputs, to be
supported through this project and the capacity enhancements to monitoring and
reporting. Finally, donor partners are expected to be indirect
beneficiaries of the REDiSL as systems will be established to coordinate donor
activities and to provide a more comprehensive, consolidated framework for
working in the education sector.
The signing ceremony which took place at the
World Bank in Washington DC USA saw Ambassador Ibrahim S. Conteh signed on behalf
of the government of Sierra Leone on Friday August 1, 2014.He was accompanied
by Ms. Fattmata Dao.
Pasco Gerald Temple
Information Attache
Embassy of Sierra Leone to the United States
Information Attache
Embassy of Sierra Leone to the United States
1701 19th St. NW
Washington, DC
20009
Tel:+202 4466958
Tel:+202 4466958
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