| Education Support for Children of Marginalized Populations (EMACK)
Kenya
Inside EMACK
The Education for Marginalized Children in Kenya (EMACK) project works to increase pre-school and primary school opportunities for children marginalized by cultural practices and poverty in the North Eastern and Coastal Provinces of Kenya.
In the Coastal Province, EMACK works with three partner projects established by the Aga Khan Foundation: the Coastal Rural Support Program, the Kenya School Improvement Program, the Madrasa Resource Center. Each of these projects seek to promote quality education in the classroom by training teachers and by involving communities in their children’s education. EMACK coordinates with these programs to support their activities, to add new innovative programs and to strengthen ties with local community entities and with the government. In the North Eastern Province, EMACK supports and helps to promote local initiatives to promote better educational opportunities for marginalized traditional and sedentary pastoralist populations. EMACK works closely with several local NGOs and with the provincial government. EMACK works with communities to train school management committees and teachers for schools that the community builds and which, in selected cases, EMACK builds or renovates. EMACK works to promote the transition between community ECDs which are also lower primary schools to boarding schools in the area. In the traditional pastoralist communities, EMACK works closely with Koranic schools that provide a foundation for introducing literacy and numeracy and primary education.
EMACK has also collaborated with the Ministry of Education to improve the education management and information system, to improve in-service teacher training, and to construct and improve kindergartens and lower primary classrooms in the districts where it works.
EQUIP1 Partner
Aga Khan Foundation USA
Award Amount
$4.5 million
Award Duration
May 1, 2004 to December 31, 2006
Key Personnel
Alex Alubisia, Chief of Party
USAID CTO
Sarah Wright, sawright@usaid.gov
For more information, contact:
Deborah Glassman, dglassman@air.org
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• EQUIP1 EMACK Teachers Manual
• EQUIP1 EMACK Trainers Manual
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