University graduates doing their National Service duty were used to teach illiteracy
eradication classes after receiving special training for this job. This has a positive effect.
The educational system suffers high rates of dropouts. Therefore, a special program for
education and qualification of children was introduced. This is flexible form of education
that takes into account local environments and targeting children aged 9-14 who either
never joined schools or dropped out of them. 60% of the program capacity targets girls.
188,666 children benefited from the program, including 39,750 boys and 148,916 girls.
The gender indicator was 3:7 for girls. The number of centers providing this service was
5042 with 6021 teachers. These centers face a host of problems as they located in poor
communities that can not possibly finance and support them in addition to structural
problems in this form of education.
Popular effort plays important roles in providing support to schools through education
councils which fulfill schools’ needs. Localities cover only the first chapter i.e. salaries of
teachers. Education council and NGOs cover the cost of maintenance, daily expenses,
breakfast for children …etc. This amounts to 52.7% of the total cost of the educational
process.
The education sector has benefited greatly from support provided by UN agencies,
NGOs, banks and funds. This has helped in the development and stability of education in
remote areas. This support amounted to $ 52,592,331 and can be summarized as follows:
UNICEF is the largest contributor in the basic level education programs which aim to
push up rates of enrollment, reduce rates of dropouts in nine states in Sudan (Blue Nile,
Kassala, Gadaref, greater Kordufan, greater Darfur and southern states), promulgate
activities of the culture of peace, protection against HIV/AIDS and achievement of
human rights to education and equality.
WFP aims to achieve educational policies by maximization of enrollment rates through
the provision of free breakfast meals to children in remote and poor areas, focusing
mainly on girls, in addition to mobilization of more support from local communities in
the targeted states (localities of Nayal, Genaina and Fashir in Darfur and the states of
Kassala, N Kordufan and Blue Nile and some localities in the Red Sea state).
UNISCO supports education sector (both basic and higher education). The most
important projects include training of cadres in the field of educational planning,
establishment of early childhood development centers, training of basic level teachers (4
courses) and development of illiteracy eradication programs.
The role of WPF is confined to cooperation with the Ministry of Education in
contributing to financing population education programs. Such cooperation has
contributed to the production of teaching materials and a reference book.
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