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Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS) Project
EQuALLS Initiatives
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Education and Livelihood Skills Alliance (ELSA)
Television Education for the Advancement of Muslim Mindanao (TEAM Mindanao)
Dagyawang Igpaw sa Wastong Agkataw (DIWA)
Books Accross the Sea (BATS) Program
TUDLÓ Mindanao
The Education Quality and Access for Learning and Livelihood Skills (EQuALLS) Project will carry out targeted interventions aimed at producing visible improvements in education quality and access, including livelihood training needs of out-of-school youth, and in related policy constraints. The primary focus of efforts to improve both access to and quality of education will be on grades 1-3. Poor teaching and learning in grades 1-3, overcrowded classes, or the lack of access to a school or an effective alternative learning opportunity set up a barrier to a student's ability to learn, leading to poor achievement and the inordinately high illiteracy and drop-out rates.
Some activities may address math, science and English at other grade levels but the academic focus remains primarily at the
elementary level -- up to grade 6.
EQuALLS will also support programs that reintegrate out-of-school youth (OSY) into the peaceful, productive economy.
Illustrative results that would indicate successful achievement of the end-of-project objectives include, but are not necessarily limited to the following:
Improved quality and access in targeted areas/schools as measured by:
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Completion rate
Drop-out rate
Student performance in reading, English, math and science
Increased resources for education, e.g. increased allocations by government and private sector, more efficient spending of available resources
Increases in enrollment
Teacher performance
Models and guidelines developed and/or implemented successfully replicating sustainable academic and livelihood
skills programs; ARMM or other responsible government entities in Regions IX and XII plus NGOs and private sector have
demonstrated the capacity to replicate these;
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Policy reforms sustained and improved capacity for continued policy reforms and their implementation;
Out-of-school youth re-integrated into productive economy using cost effective programs;
Parent-student perceptions and public perceptions show greater satisfaction with education services.
Increased resources for education, e.g. increased allocations by government and private sector, more efficient spending of available resources
Prior to the EQuALLS project, the mission signed an agreement with the Peace Corps in September 2003, to support an 18-month program to train ARMM teachers of English and Information Communication Technology. This project will be extended for 18 more months and managed as an activity under EQuALLs.
The EQuALLS project will be implemented by an institutional contractor together with partners from the
private sector operating under Public-Private Alliances with USAID/Philippines and from other USG agencies.
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