Education

ACKPID > Education

Objective: The aim of this intervention is to ensure improved access to quality education that enable realization of full potential of people and contribute to their communities and the world. Our interventions address quality basic education, relevant market driven skills for the graduates these schools produce, Technical Vocational and Education Training (TVET), entrepreneurship training and support to the poor and vulnerable to afford access to educational services. We view access to quality education as a right; one of the most fundamental of rights. Besides its impact on ability to earn income and its contribution to the development of both individuals and communities, it is essential for the realization of the other rights. Our interventions in education are modelled to ensure inclusive, quality and relevant skills focused education to create lifelong opportunities for realization of full potential as enshrined in global and African development goals.

Gaps

Most governments are constrained to provide quality basic pre-primary education
Education in most African countries are focused on passing exams and not on imparting skills
Education is not specific to skills that enhance development, but for success of passing, hence STEM

The interventions include;

Strengthening and development of Early Childhood education
Supporting STEM (Science, Technology and Mathematics) programmes in learning institutions through;
- Providing learning materials support
- Continuous training of the tutors
- Supporting assessments and competitions
- Establishing STEM centers of excellence and laboratories
Promotion of TVET as a means to skills development and employment creation.
Promotion of training of out of school youth in job entry skills
- To ensure disadvantaged youth acquire life skills, relevant labor market skills, savings education, and small business development.
- To facilitate disadvantaged youth access internship and job opportunities during through institutionalized public-private partnership.
- To ensure youth receive vital pre and post job placement counseling, support, and services including financial as they transition to work

We endeavor to advocate and support a holistic set of multi-sectoral services and programmes that support a child’s development from prenatal to age eight. These shall include nurturing care, healthcare, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, play and early learning and child protection. Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest rate of access to pre-primary education in the world, and by 2020, will be home to an estimated 45% of all malnourished children — where a child is already more than fifteen times more likely to die before reaching the age of five than a child from a high-income region. Lack of political will to implement ECD policies, weak coordination and partnership, limited knowledge and contextual evidence, and a lack of support to ECD programming remain crucial barriers to delivering quality, holistic ECD services to all children in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Establishing pre-primary centers of excellence