BRAC Afghanistan is implementing an important education project, in collaboration with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education.

The project’s goals are to:

• Establish 4,000 community-based schools that will provide basic primary education to approximately 120,000 schoolchildren, 80 percent of which are girls, in 20 provinces, including Kandahar province .
• Create early childhood development programs.
• Implement after-school learning programs.
• Initiate skills development programs for adolescents.
• Provide training to almost 4,000 government schoolteachers and 4,000 community-based schoolteachers, a large percentage of whom will be women.

The new community-based schools are helping the Ministry of Education to:

• Increase girls’ enrolment, especially in remote and non-secure areas.
• Promote the hiring of female teachers in primary education.
• Train teachers in government-run schools.

At the end of the project, many of these schools will be transitioned to the Ministry of Education.

4,000 community-based schools have been established providing basic education to about 120,000 school children.

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Basic education is being provided to girls through this project, and 84 percent of students attending community-based schools are female.

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The BRAC Afghanistan Girls’ Primary Education Project has achieved significant results to date:

• More than 4,000 community-based schools, providing basic education to more than 125,000 students, of whom about 84 percent are girls, which is a target that has been surpassed.
• 4,080 government schoolteachers and more than 4,000 community-based schoolteachers have received training.

• BRAC in Afghanistan