I. Provision of Educational Facilities

In Dir Upper & Lower no new school establishment took place, currently 38 CBGPS are functioning with 1342 girls and 142 boys enrollment. Exams were held in CBGPS, result announcement ceremonies were organized and mothers participated in it. 111 learners from 5 Adult Literacy Centers have learnt basic writings and counting during the session. These students of Adult Centers received course completion certificates.

In FR-Bannu 2 CBGPS was established at Noor Musa Khel and Akra Barat of Kheraki Mama Khel with 40 and 27 enrollments.

In Karak 2 CBGPS were established at Baikara Banda and Mansoor Ghar with 28 and 18 enrollment. With this establishment KK has established 8 CBGPS with 318 enrolments. 2 adult centers at villages Litamber and Chatta Banda have been established with 17 and 25 enrollments respectively. The total adult centers in Karak are 3 with 52 enrollments. 12 learners of adult center of Litambar have passed the examination successfully.

In Peshawar 2 Adult centers have been established at Kochiano Kaley and Hindko Kaley with 21 and 17 women enrolled respectively.

• Aim:
  · To promote quality female education.

• Objectives:
  · To create awareness among partner communities regarding literacy and education.
  · To establish community based girl’s schools.
  · To facilitate formation and strengthening of female and male VECs based on concept of local management.
  · To enhance the capacity of KK supported schoolteachers.
  · To facilitate linkages with Government departments and other related organizations/ institutions for sustainability of schools.
  

II. Community Mobilization and Organization

For schools sustainability community participation, VEC formation, linkages with line departments are ensured. The community organizations are involved in saving and its utilization in the repair and maintenance of the CBGPS. The community provides the venue for the schools. VECs regularly monitor the school, teacher and students’ progress and status. The VECs are capacitated to mobilize local resource for running of the schools after withdrawal of KK support. Local philanthropists also play an important role. In this regard Ms. Zubaida Khatoon and Ms. Danish have taken over two CBGPS in Dir.

In Dir Upper and Lower 7 women and 9 men Village Education Committees (VECs) have been formed with a membership of 72 and 163 respectively which adds to total of 38 women and 38 men VECs with total membership of 483 and 567 respectively. 6 women and 9 men VECs have been structured while 1 woman and 1 male VEC have been restructured.

In Karak 2 VECs formed at Baikara Banda and Mansoor Ghar with 10 & 30 membership respectively. KK has so far formed 8 female VEC with 160 membership.

III. Capacity Building

a. Teacher
Teacher’s capacity building is done in three ways; on the job trainingt, structured trainings and exposure visits.

On job training is provided to the teachers during monitoring visits and paydays. During the monitoring visit to school, teachers are guided and corrections are made where it is necessary in session/classes for quality education. Paydays are the forum where they share experiences with each other and expect support from each other. Group works on different issues are conducted, lectures, question answers and handouts are shared with them. These pay days conducted regularly on monthly basis

The structured trainings given to the teachers is to make them familiar with the new techniques or teaching methodologies so to make them able to teach according to the new skills techniques to provide better education to the children. For this purpose services of external resource persons are hired from education departments.

In this connection a content Based Class Wise Teacher training up to class 3 was arranged in Dir Upper & Lower with the support of Development in Literacy (DIL) Islamabad. This training was facilitated and conducted by Ms. Iffat Nasir (Assistant District Education Officer District Swat) capacitated 50 teachers of Community Based Girls Schools of Dir Upper & Lower.

In FR Bannu the HID Section of KK also conducted an on job training for a newly appointed male teacher at FR Bannu of Noor Musa Khel School. This training was content/subject based and was conducted by the Human and Institutional Development Facilitator (HIDF) of KK.

In Karak training was conducted. The training was for 8 days on content-based knowledge participated by 9 teachers. Ms. Shazia, PEP-ILE Master Trainer and PTC teacher delivered the training.

The exposure visits for the teachers were arranged both inter and intra regions of KK to see the CBGPS of KK and other Govt Schools. The objectives of the visits are to share their experiences and observe teacher teaching method and also to learn preparation of teaching kits.
In FR Bannu an exposure visit was arranged for CBGP School teacher of Noor Musa Khel to Karak CBGPS, where he visited CBGPS Chanda Khurram to enhance his capacities and learning
In Karak 2 exposure visits were arranged for teachers of Bogara, Chanda Khurram, Kanda Baji Khel, Chani Khel, Baikara Banda to Government girls primary school official colony Karak and CBGPS Walaki Muhabat Khel. These teachers also hold a meeting with VEC of Walaki mohabat Khel during visit to this CBGPS.

Teachers Training at Dir

b. Village Education Committee

In Dir Upper and Lower To strengthen VECs 2 Organization Development trainings, Financial Management training, PRA for MOs, Record Keeping for MOs, Financial Management for MOs, PRA training attended by a male member of VEC, Appropriate tool for Gender analysis by VEC member, Fabric Painting.

3 days capacity building training was arranged for 6 male VECs at Asbanr cluster. Mr. Abid Rehman, Resource Person, facilitated the training. After a month the trained members were gathered and they gave their feed back and shared their learnings. They shared improvements like organizing meetings frequently, saving, solution of different problems, record keeping etc. The VEC Shah Adam shared that they constructed the road to village and now the vehicles easily reach to the village. Some of them mentioned that they have approached to the MPAs for Government Girls Primary School in their village. During this period some VECs members did the minor repair in schools, white washing and latrines were constructed in some schools. The VEC Shawa expanded the school by constructing 2nd room.

In Karak 3 days VEC training was conducted at Khusra Lawaghar with the objective to capacitate them in CBGPS monitoring and management and to strategize the problems identified in the CBGPS. The contents of the training were: organization definition & membership criteria in an organization, importance of women education, status of Women in Islam focusing on girls’ education, definition of development, village development, female role in development, characteristic & role and responsibility of executive body of VEC.

As a result of this training many women started to take membership of the VEC. They became aware about the workings of the NGOs especially of KK. They also accepted that female education is necessary. The most important thing is that they realized the strength in unity and decision-making. The women collectively decided that they would make all necessary maintenance in the schools and in future they have planned to construct another room for the students because the enrollment is increasing day by day which is 70 at present. The elected president is the wife of mulvi Mr. Gani Rehman to ensure the involvement of clergy for smooth running of the programme. After the training at Mansoor Garh students have started to attend the school regularly, and inform the teacher through their mother in case of leave.