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Community Participation

Photo of a community play Critical to any reform effort is Community Participation. ERP has a strategy to strengthen civil society organizations to actively participate in increasing access and improving quality of education in Egypt. Targeted civil society organizations include Boards of Trustees (BOTs), Community Development Organizations (CDAs) and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs).

ERP encourages active involvement of parents and local leaders through BOTs in the administration and functioning of the school. BOTs manage school improvement funds, facilitate School-to-Work activities in technical schools and raise awareness about education and community participation standards. ERP works with CDAs & NGOs to engage community member support for formal and non-formal education activities.

School Governance
ERP facilitates a school-based decision making process involving active participation of parents, community members together with teachers and school administrators, equips MOE social workers with methods and tools to sustain BOT capacity building programs, and supports student teacher involvement in community-based service learning:

Learners

MOE Education Reform Committee members
MOE Social Work Supervisors
BOTS (School staff, Parents, & Other community members)
Activities
BOT charter development and ratification
BOT elections
BOT capacity building
- To assess needs
- To draft improvement plans
- To establish & manage funds
- To support girls-in-school

Early Childhood Development
ERP introduces an early childhood curriculum to children (2-6 years old) in preparation for school, equips parents with skills that help them deal effectively with their pre-school children, creates an enabling policy environment to provide adequate funding and resources for programs and initiates community-based support and ensures services to marginalized groups, such as girls:

Learners

Pre-school Children
Parents
Early Childhood Development Facilitators
Activities
Parent Outreach Training
CDA capacity building to support Early Childhood Center
Implementing Early Childhood programs through local CDAs

Access to School
Poverty and distance are two factors that prevent many children, particularly girls, from attending or continuing in school. Efforts to increase girls' access to education address parents' safety & security concerns, cultural misconceptions of potential, and advocate for community leaders support. ERP aims to overcome constraints by:

Providing funds to girls based on need assessments conducted by their communities.
Encouraging communities to generate funds to sustain scholarships, and to support girls-in-school by issuing birth certificates, ensuring school facilities are appropriate, and providing transportation or local space for classrooms.

Learners

24,000 disadvantaged girls
Girls living far from existing schools
Activities
CDA capacity building to support:
Girls in School Program
School Construction
Multi-Grade School establishment & administration

Adolescent & Adult Learning
Integrated Literacy provides men and women, young and old, with supplementary literacy materials drawn from important content areas related to their lives. Integrated Literacy also provides support to AEA supervisors and teachers by training focused on active learning, student centered teaching, and improved technical monitoring.

New Horizons provides young girls & women with important information about life skills and reproductive health to enable them to fully participate in society. New Visions provides the same learning opportunities for young boys and men. Both life-skills programs provide community facilitators with important skills in communication, leadership, volunteerism, team building and facilitation.

Learners

In-school & drop-out adolescent boys and girls
Illiterate men & women
Activities
New Horizons life skills program for girls & women (9-25 yrs.)
New Visions life skills program for boys & men (12-20 yrs.)
Integrated Literacy for adolescents & adults
Mobilization of community support for literacy through capacity building of CDAs
Support to Adult Education Agency (AEA)
Integrated Literacy materials
Post-literacy initiatives