| Reaching and Educating At-Risk Children (REACH)
India
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The purpose of the REACH activity is to attract and retain vulnerable out-of-school children into formal schools or alternative educational programs that will lead to formal schooling by:
- Strengthening strong performing NGOs to scale up their delivery of educational services to out-of-school children in urban and rural areas
- Building the capacity of smaller, less mature NGOs to do likewise, and
- Promoting the adoption of best practices within the NGO and state/district education communities.
The ultimate objective for REACH is to improve access of vulnerable children, especially girls, to quality elementary education. First, with REACH service delivery grants to NGOs/foundations, vulnerable children will be attracted to bridge schools, non-formal education schemes and other retention-enhancing programs.
Second, through the capacity building grants to ISPs, NGO systems for developing, managing, implementing, accounting for and measuring impacts of education programs will be improved. While this represents an intermediate or process result, it is a necessary step towards achieving greater reach and effectiveness of these organizations. Success will be measured by the number of assisted NGOs (and networks of NGOs) that measurably improve and are able to successfully implement education programs with REACH service delivery sub-grants.
Third, REACH will encourage and support programs of NGOs/foundations that aim to strengthen the government system of education service delivery, with particular focus on ways to address the needs of girls and other vulnerable groups. Efforts will focus at the community level (e.g., working with the school governing/oversight bodies), the block education agents, and district education and Zilla Panchayat officials.
EQUIP1 Partners
AIR
Juarez and Associates Inc.
World Education
Award Amount
$13,848,500
Award Duration
September 22, 2003 - March 15, 2008
Key Personnel
Chief of Party: Nandini Prasad
For more information, contact:
Judy Benjamin, jbenjamin@air.org
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