UNESCO’s intervention in this programme area extended non-formal educational services to girls, youth and adults in the affected areas including Non-formal Basic and Middle Education programmes that complement formal education. These were developed as part of UNESCO’s support to a holistic reactivation of the education system.

Following a disaster many boys and girls are constrained to drop out formal education activities either because schools are destroyed or non-functioning, because the teachers are victims themselves and thus are not present or because the child is required to help with domestic activities, among other reasons. Non Formal Education activities open a possibility for these drop-out kids to be mainstreamed back into the formal system and catch up with education.

In a partnership with the Allama Iqbal Open University 13 women who are currently running Literacy Centers in Turbat, with an affluence of 25-30 women each, received four-week residential workshops to upgrade their teaching techniques and methods. In the same way, 17 female teachers who had previously received training on Non-Formal-Basic Education received four-week residential workshops to upgrade their skills to Non- Formal-Middle Education.