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Problem: Stakeholders are not familiar with planning methodologies that are logical and needs-based.

Activity: Stakeholders that include representatives from among school directors, teachers, and community members join together to develop a school improvement plan. Technical support for this activity includes helping stakeholders to understand concepts of child friendliness as well as doing a problem analysis of their local context and determining appropriate activities to address the problems identified using an Activity Menu.

• Stationery: problem and activity cards, poster paper, tape, marker pens
• Selected handouts explaining technical aspects of planning
• Travel and per diem costs for participants to attend planning sessions.
• Photocopy costs for dissemination of the plan

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Problem: Schools do not know how to use assessments to facilitate improvements in local educational practices

Activity: Clusters select one or more of their best schools and conduct an honest and critical self-assessment of performance to improve local educational practices across all Child Friendly School (CFS) dimensions.

• Travel costs for visits to designated schools
• Travel costs for meetings to tabulate and discuss assessment data

Problem: Schools do not know how to analyze school efficiency performance indicators

Activity: Clusters collect and analyze data on terminal indicators (e.g., repetition and dropout) using standard data collection forms. Clusters disseminate the data to all member schools and district offices of education.

• Data collection forms