Balochistan Education Project

  • P Project/Program

I Inactive

Key Information

The proposed development objective of the Project is to increase school enrollment and retention in project supported schools, with a special focus on girls’ participation, and to develop mechanisms for information collection and use for improved management of education. Balochistan Education Project is implemented by the Secondary Education Department Government of Balochistan with the financial support by the Global Partnership for Education. World Bank in Pakistan is looking after the project as supervising entity and UNICEF as coordinating agency. The project covers four main thematic areas of the Balochistan Education Sector Plan (2013-18) i.e. Access, Equity, Quality and Governance in public sector education system across 31 districts of the province. The three-year project will establish 725 gender-free primary schools and upgrade 120 schools to the next levels (95 primary schools to middle and 25 middle schools to secondary/higher secondary level). This intervention is expected to contribute in improving access to education for all children in general and equity for girls and marginalized groups in particular.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Pakistan

Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2021

Ministry Affiliation

Secondary Education Department of Balochistan

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Early childhood development

Quality

  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Teachers - female, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary

Other populations reached

  • Boys in school
  • Youth

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Improving transportation

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • STEM - in the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms