“We have limited capacity to implement government policy effectively at school community level. We were wondering how to make the School Improvement Programme a meaningful process for our schools, so we are very happy that LCD has come to share their skills in precisely this area of school performance monitoring and planning. After four years of partnership we can see real improvement in our schools and in our learner test results.”. Ato Gitimo Gitore, Damot Gale Woreda Education Office
Programme Overview
"Link Community Development's operation in Ethiopia is the latest addition to our African portfolio. Following successful funding applications to BIG Lottery Fund, Irish Aid, the Waterloo Foundation and DFID, we were able to start our pilot Woreda School Improvement Project, which draws on learning from Link's work in all other countries, particularly School Performance Review (SPR).
The project aims for better basic education through enhanced access to school performance data for local communities, increased stakeholder demand for improvements and more responsive and effective delivery by woreda education staff. It is designed to support the government’s School Improvement Programme - the main policy designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms.
The project is working with 114 primary schools in four woredas of the Wolaita Zone of the Southern Nations and Nationalities People’s Region (SNNPRS) and hopes to impact on approximately 150,000 beneficiaries in extremely deprived rural areas. From 2007 - 2009 we focused on 66 of these schools in the first two target woredas. A baseline was produced and is being used for future assessment and monitoring. In 2010 we expanded to another two woredas and 44 new schools. The project has been designed in partnership with the education department at all levels and is at the forefront of our thinking regarding strengthening and informing national education policy." Laura Garforth, Programme Director
Annual Report 2008
Annual Report 2010
