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Southwest Basic Education Project
The project will support the achievement of the Chinese Government’s target of Nine Year Compulsory Education. It will do this by increasing government capacity to implement effective programmes that increase equitable access, improved completion rates and greater achievement for the most disadvantaged girls and boys. The project will directly benefit 1,668,000 children in 27 of the poorest counties in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces.
The project has an explicit focus on improving the effectiveness of the Government’s own programmes.Those programmes are much larger and will last much longer than any investment DFID can make.The Ministry of Education and DFID agreed that working directly with those programmes would enable long term, sustainable change to be achieved. It is consistent with the DFID China Country Assistance Plan for 2006-11 which includes an objective “to improve the effectiveness of the Government's own programmes on basic education, with a particular focus on children from the poorest families, girls, children from ethnic minorities and children with disabilities”.
The project will result in the following outcomes:
- Education institutions at national, provincial and county level will be better able to design, implement, monitor and evaluate inclusive basic education policies and programmes for 20 million children across the four project provinces.
- 220,000 more disadvantaged children will complete three years of junior middle school and management of boarding schools will be significantly improved;.
- The quality and relevance of schooling for approximately 1.6million disadvantaged children in 27 counties will be improved;?
- Schools will be better managed and local communities will be more involved; and
- Decision makers will have better quality and more timely information that can help identify and target support to the most disadvantaged children.
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