A team of 8 officials from Damot Gale and Bolosso Sore woreda education offices made a visit to Tigray Regional State in the north of Ethiopia from 23rd July to1st August 2011.
The purpose of the visit was to exchange experience and knowledge with their counterparts around the strengths and weaknesses of SIP in the region. The visit was also expected to provide an opportunity to compare their delivery against the best practice of other woredas and to provide insight into a different regional context and challenges. The team met with Ato Bahetam the Head of the Tigray Education Bureau Curriculum Department and also visited Enticho and Adua woreda education offices.
They undertook schoo
l visits to Enticho and Soloda elementary schools. Our Tigray colleagues were very interested in the SIP innovations we have been undertaking and expressed particular interest in the SIP database for storing school performance data. The Wolaita woreda staff were interested to learn that the right to education performance information is increasingly being recognised in Tigray as an important instrument to promote openness and transparency and that in the woredas visited, there is good practise around regular discussions with the community on the results of their students and around supporting academically weak and economically poor girl learners.
