The program will go beyond providing critical support in areas like developing school infrastructure and providing textbooks to addressing other issues like quality of education, policy reforms, incentives, safety issues, management and governance, that are necessary for overall development of the education sector, an ADB statement said quoting Sungsup Ra, director of ADB´s South Asia Human and Social Development Division. [break]
“The program will also strongly focus on equitable access and quality education, and make a concerted effort to reach out-of-school children, especially girls belonging to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups,” Ra said.
The program is follow-on to the ongoing Education Sector Program, subprogram III, which supports Nepal government´s seven-year (FY2010-FY2016) School Sector Reform Program (SSRP).
The SSRP is supported by the ADB and 8 other development partners - Australia, Denmark, European Union, Finland, Norway, UNICEF, the UK and World Bank.
“Nepal has been able to undertake a series of ground breaking reforms in school education, and impressive progress has been made in recent years, particularly with regard to access to education,” the release said quoting Barry J Hitchcock, ADB Country Director for Nepal.
“However, the school sector still faces challenges. Through the implementation of the program, Nepal´s education system will be in a better position to provide fair, inclusive, and effective education,” according to Hitchcock.
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