| Malawi Education Support Activity (MESA)
Inside MESA
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The MESA project in Malawi builds upon the accomplishments of previous projects QUEST, SMC-EQ, and IEQ. MESA consolidates lesson’s learned and expands upon the three programs’ most successful initiatives—cluster schools, teacher professional development strategies, community mobilization, teacher mentors, field-based supervision and monitoring, and continuous assessment of student learning, among others.
This consolidation brings together personnel from each of these three programs to work collaboratively as part of the MESA team, and in part by continuing to support the institutions of Save the Children/Malawi, CRECCOM and the Malawi Institute of Education. MESA’s interventions cover four of Malawi’s districts; Phalombe, Machinga, Kasungu and Mzimba South; and target a total of 6,432 teachers and 466,605 pupils in 821 primary schools in those districts.
MESA’s key project outcomes include training teachers to increasingly and effectively use creative/ participatory methods of teaching, continuous assessment, gender equitable learning, and teaching/learning resources. MESA also trains teachers to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS by integrating life skills curriculum into classes and incorporating civic education into the curriculum. In addition, the project aims to implement and support HIV/AIDS awareness strategies in schools, zones, and districts by increasing the effectiveness of school management committees. Most importantly is MESA’s goal to impact pupils; who are increasingly retained in schools, promoted to higher classes and achieving mastery in reading skills in English and numeracy. Finally, MESA successfully established an Information Technology Center at Mzuzu University and plans to construct four classrooms and twelve lecturer’s offices at Domasi College of Education.
EQUIP1 Partners
AIR
Save the Children
Local Partners
Creative Center for Community Mobilization (CRECCOM)
Malawi Institute for Education (MIE)
Award Amount
$5.5 million
Award Duration
July 30, 2003 to January 31, 2006
Key Personnel
Chief of Party: Simeon B. Mawindo
Teacher Professional Development Specialist: Lester Namathaka
Community Mobilization Specialist: Madalo Esther Samati
Learnng Resources Specialist: Maxford J. Iphani
USAID CTO
Thomas LeBlanc, tleblanc@usaid.gov
For more information, contact:
Cassandra Jessee, cjessee@air.org
For current information on MESA, go Inside MESA.
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