United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Increasing Primary School Participation of Girls in Balochistan (in collaboration with Directorate of Primary Education, Balochistan, and the Society for Community Support for Primary Education in Balochistan)

Proposed Duration: 1999 – 2001

Objectives:

• To bring 35,000 girls primarily of ages 5-7 cohort into the entry grade of primary schools and to maximize their attendance and retention in school to ensure the completion of primary level education;

• To ensure community-wide promotion and broad community support for girls’ primary schools and education;

• To ensure that the community, school management committees and teachers, with NGO support, take a collective responsibility for bringing children into school and retain them, with particular attention to girls currently not attending school;

• To ensure that all schoolwork is in the best interest of children, especially girls.

Activities:

• School/ community action to increase girls’ participation in primary school;

• Community mobilization for support to girls’ primary education;

• Setting of precise school targets for girls’ enrollment in schools;

• Improving the school and classroom learning environment.