The Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme, which seeks to provide out-of-school children with literacy, numeracy and life skills in other to access primary education, started with an initial number of 2,125 comprising 1,211 girls and 914 boys.
Madam Barbara Okai Mensah, the Project Coordinator of Action Aid in the Mamprusi East District, said the government with assistance from the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) and United States Agency for International Development (USAID) implemented the CBE programme in collaboration with other NGOs, and Action Aid Ghana was chosen to be the implementing partner for the project in the East Mamprusi District.
She said as part of measures to increase gender equality and participation in basic education, the CBE programme operated in 66 communities with 85 classes, and 425 local committee and school management committee members, with 85 facilitators.
Madam Mensah said out of the 85 classes, 43 were Mampruli speaking classes and 42 were Likpakpaln speaking classes.
The CBE offers a flexible approach that accommodates out-of-school children between the ages of 8 to 14 years, mainly from rural areas, and ensured that they attended classes.
The Coordinator said the classes were taught in local languages for the CBE cycle of nine months by well-trained facilitators, who were mostly Senior High School graduates from the communities.
“Following the completion of the CBE cycle, the children are tested and then integrated into the primary school system,” she said.
She said the programme provided the disadvantaged children with the opportunity to have access to primary schooling, extended and improved CBE to the deprived communities and improved the quality of teaching and learning outcomes of pupils in the CBE learning centres.
“Notwithstanding the number of institutions in the Mamprusi East District, there are lots of children of school going age who are still at home. The implementation of the CBE programme is very relevant to mop-up some of the children who are out of school”.
She said Action Aid Ghana had considered the successful implementation of the programme in the area as a complement to its work on promoting children’s right to quality education, and congratulated the graduands.
Madam Hawa Yussif Pont, the Mamprusi East District Director of Education, was grateful to Action Aid Ghana for the initiative and called on parents to see the education of their children as a right and not a privilege.
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