Tusome Pamoja (Read Together)

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Key Information

The USAID Tusome Pamoja activity aims to improve the quality of early grade basic skills instruction, strengthen skills delivery systems, and increase engagement of parents and communities in education. The activity operates in five focus regions to target more than 1.4 million students in grades one through four, as well as 26,000 teachers. The activity has three main objectives: 1. Improving the quality of early grade basic skills instruction by building upon existing knowledge and developing new teaching and learning materials for students in preprimary education and grades one to four in primary. Tusome Pamoja also works to build knowledge and skills for teachers and school leaders, in addition to establishing school-based communities of learning. 2. Strengthening skills delivery systems, with an emphasis on performance management for education system administrators, including mentoring, monitoring, evaluation analysis, and research. 3. Increasing engagement of parents and communities in education, thereby strengthening their participation in school governance, school management, and their children's learning.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

United Republic of Tanzania

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2016 - 2021

Partner(s)

Ministry of Education Science and Technology (MOEST), President's Office for Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG), Zanzibar Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MOEVT), regional secretariats

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education Science and Technology, Zanzibar Ministry of Education and Vocational Training

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Skills

  • Literacy

Cross-cutting areas

  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Fathers, Girls in school, Mothers, Other family members, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

School-related gender-based violence

  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown