A $60 million project aimed at strengthening quality education delivery and strengthening accountability in basic schools in the North, North East, Upper East and Upper West regions has been launched in Wale Wale, West Mamprusi Municipality.
The five-year initiative, named the Strengthening Accountability in the Ghanaian Education System (SAGES) Activity, will improve performance and ensure quality teaching and learning outcomes in 17 selected school districts across four regions. It is also intended to.
The Department of Education’s efforts are funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
The project is a collaboration between the NGO Care Ghana and a consortium of partners: School for Life (SfL), AfriKids, Community Development Alliance (CDA), Crown Agency (CA), Ghana National Education Campaign Coalition (GNECC). ).
The project will design an accountability framework that will allow the ministry to track deliveries and measure the impact of educational institutions in the beneficiary areas.
In total, approximately 1,254 schools and communities and 508,269 students are expected to benefit from the project.
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Dr. Eric Nkansah, Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), whose speech was read on his behalf by Prince Charles Agyeman-Dua, Director-General of School Guidance, GES, also said that relevant data would be obtained through the project. It is generated to help drive change in the education sector.
He explained that with accountability structures in place, the ministry would be able to hold stakeholders accountable in carrying out their mandates.
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Mohamed Amin Dauda, Deputy Leader of the SAGES Party, said the project has a national dimension, supporting institutions under the Ministry of Education responsible for implementing higher education in the country.
He said one of the challenges facing the education sector is an ineffective accountability system, which the Director-General said this project would also help solve.
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Meanwhile, North East Regional Minister Idana Zakaria, in a speech read on her behalf, praised the project of GES and its partners, saying that the project will go a long way in complementing the government’s efforts to strengthen quality education. He said he was deaf. Country.
“We believe this project is a timely intervention that will enable us to consolidate the gains we have made so far as a country and address the gaps identified in our education system,” he said. Ta.
Ayuba Abukari, Program Director, School for Life (SfL), expressed the organization’s commitment to ensuring the successful implementation of the project.