Ministry of Education
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
UPDATE on
EQUIP COORDINATION UNIT
(November 2013 – May 2014)
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EQUIP Unit
Learning Assessment
Social Mobilization
Gender mainstreaming
Environmental and Social Safeguard
Communication & Public Awareness
EQUIP Coordination Unit
• Coordinates ARTF-WB support within MoE
• Liaise between MoE & WB
• Coordinate & facilitate the work of WB consultants
with MoE counterparts
• Coordinate updating and revising of the
Procurement Plan
• Coordinate & facilitate the bi-annual ISMs
•Follow-up on Aide Memoire actions & other
decisions
•Coordinate & facilitate new initiatives such as Pilots
& LA
• Coordinate & lead SM & cross-cutting initiatives e.g.,
gender & ESS
Learning Assessment (phase i & ii)
• A sample-based assessment of educational
achievements of grade 6 students carried out in Pashto
and Dari in 13 provinces.
• Language and mathematics tests administered to 6377
students out of which 2784 were girls.
• Context information gathered from students and
principals
• 68618 Pashto and 79312 Dari responses were coded
for analysis
• Report will be released by ACER in September 2014
• Preparations for assessing Grade 3 has begun
MoE-System-building in LA
As a result of the well-sequenced training and field
work, an MoE team of 12 become competent in:
• Data entry, cleaning and management
• Contributing to sampling frame and design of the
context questionnaires
• Planning and coordination of field work as well as
test administration
• Evaluation & translation of test items
• On-line coding of both open- and closed-ended
responses
• Understanding the value & utility of LA
Social Mobilization
(Capacity Enhancement)
• 345 School Management Shuras established ,
composition 2126 SMSs improved through
election(41 female)
• Shura best-practices shared through 1 National
and 1 regional conference
• Over 128 Social Mobilization Supervisors & 23
DSMs trained through three rounds of ToT
Cascade (22 emerged as Master Trainers)
• Social Mobilization LFA & strategy developed
• Three Trainers’ Manuals, 1 SM Handbook, 1
Success Stories Booklet, 1 Induction Plan for
DSMs, and DSM Diary , developed
• A new monitoring mechanism will be in place to
improve people participation (firm)
School Shura Key Outputs
• 35552 out-of- school kids identified out of which 15331
(78% boys and 22% girls) enrolled in school
• 25151 drop-out students identified, 12514 (81% boys and
19% girls), brought back to school
• Distribution and execution of Quality Enhancement Grant
for a total value of USD2.1m to 510 schools, facilitated
• Completion of 23 CC projects & progress of 68 (total cost >
USD 8m), monitored by Social Mobilizers
• 69 Model Schools launched (34 completed) with (total cost
> USD 1m)
• Equivalent of 266977 USD contributed by communities in all
provinces (eg. Cash, Equipments, Library , Laboratory books,
Computers, Greenery,Chairs,Tables,Rooms
Construction,Repairing Doors Windows etc.)in 34 provinces
• Shura planted 199,060 trees in schools as part of the spring
environmental campaign.
Gender-mainstreaming
• Managing the NGO conducting Drop
out study
• Women’s Participation in School
Management Shuras (SMSs)
• Management Internship Program
• EMIS data analyses (genderdesegregated report)
• CCT (to be re-advertised)
Environ- & Social- Safeguard
Progress in three areas underway:
a) Policy & standards for design, cost-estimation,
bidding, construction and operation phases of
schools (design criteria, bidding checklist, land
acquisition, survey checklist, ESMP, and safe school
checklist, GR etc.)
b) Training and awareness (training plan and
materials development); focal point engineers in
provinces & social mobilizers ToRs)
c) Monitoring and supervision to enforce standards
planned & acted on
(42 of 123 donated lands registered; training
conducted for EQUIP and ISD staff from 7
provinces)
Communication &
Public Awareness
• Regularly published the EQUIP two-monthly
newsletter;
• Prepared a special newsletter on Public
Awareness
• Prepared script for 30 episodes of drama
• Public Awareness Events held in 11 provinces;
Thank you!