Challenge
The government of Mali is committed to improving equal educational opportunities for children and youth. But in northern Mali, many children and young people live in conflict-affected areas where basic education of any kind is severely limited.
EDC is increasing educational access for more than 10,000 out-of-school children and youth in the Gao and Menaka regions of northern Mali through its implementation of the Education Recovery Support Activity (ERSA). This project is providing essential educational services through accelerated learning programs, while also promoting peace building and resilience through the use of culturally appropriate lessons and activities.
Key Activities
The ERSA project is doing the following:
- Setting up 290 safe Accelerated Learning centers inside host formal schools for out-of-school children
- Building and equipping 110 classrooms and rehabilitating 15 youth centers
- Providing basic education, life skills, and livelihood training for 2,800 out-of-school youth
- Building local capacity to deliver relevant educational programs to out-of-school children and youth
Impact
- Built 101 classrooms equipped with two separate latrines for boys and girls
- Set up 210 ALP centers that welcomed 7,315 students, including 3,131 girls
- Distributed more than 5,450 teaching and learning materials to the centers, facilitators, and students
- Conducted social negotiations in more than 300 communities, together with local administrative authorities, religious and community leaders, community members, and the local implementing NGO
- Set up and trained 150 community steering committees to follow up on facilitator integration, center functioning, students’ attendance, educational quality, and safety
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PROJECT DIRECTOR
DURATION
2016–Present
FUNDED BY
U.S. Agency for International Development
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