Technical Assistance to Reinforce General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity (TARGET)

  • P Project/Program

A Active

Key Information

The overall mission of the TARGET program is to support the General Education Quality Improvement Program for Equity (GEQIP-E), and the general education sector more broadly, with the ultimate aim of improving student learning and equity. To do this, TARGET builds on previous successes while addressing systemic challenges. There are four key systemic challenges that TARGET is working to address: (i) the need to reorient the system at all levels from the Ministry of Educaiton (MoE) to schools, so as to focus on learning outcomes; (ii) moving the management focus at all levels from input focus to outcome focus; (iii) strengthening the capacity to implement policies and plans at the level of woredas (lower level administrative unit) and schools, and promoting a culture which can underpin this; and (iv) strengthening the ownership of existing policies and plans.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia, Somalia, Somaliland

Activity URL

https://www.educationdevelopmenttrust.com/

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2019 - 2024

Partner(s)

Ethiopian Center for Disability Development (ECDD), Ministry of Education (MoE), Regional Education Bureaus, Schools

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Transition from school to work

Quality

  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

4 - 65

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Learning while working

  • Work-study

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

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

Women's empowerment programs

  • Leadership training

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Dr. Abdu Zeleke
Education Development Trust
Team Leader, Ethiopia
AZeleke@educationdevelopmenttrust.com