DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM

Rural-based Community Schools (RBCS)

Sindh education foundation(SEF)
 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Pakistan has almost 5.5 million children that are out of school, the second highest
number in the world only after Nigeria. The state of Pakistan’s children 2012’, the
Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) said about one fourth of
the 19.75 million children in Pakistan aged five to nine were out of school and
factoring in adolescents increased the number to 25 million. Of them, seven million
children (aged three to five) had yet to receive primary schooling.
 PROGRAM RATIONAL
RBCS program was a non-formal program which, after completing its term in June,
2013, converted into formal program and has been regularized with the funding
allocation on “Regular Side” of the Sindh Government budget under public-private
partnership on per child subsidy basis. .

Program has been shifted to per child subsidy on the directives of SEF Board of
Governors (BoG) thus bringing more administrative and financial autonomy for the
implementing partners. A merit based accountability system will be in place to
gauge schools’ performance and to decide about the continuity of funding.
 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF RBCS
PROGRAM

 Increase access to quality education.

 Reduce poverty by providing employment opportunities to grass root level.
 Encourage lady teachers for teaching in private schools.
 Launch meaningful research projects to build the models for low – cost and high
quality institutions of learning. Increase access to primary education through
establishment of 250 rural based community schools.
 Facilitate at least 14,000 students to attain competencies through formal non-
formal/informal approaches .
 Train at least 500 locally hired teachers for pedagogical and subject based
excellence.
 Establish and train 250 parent management bodies (PMB) for school management,
administration, and supervision.
 PROGRAM DURATION

 4 years
 LOCATION

Target Area
 Karachi
 Hyderabad
 Sanghar
 Mirpurkhas
 Jamshoro
 Dadu
 Larkana
 Qamber Shahdadkot
 Sukkur
 Khairpur
 PROGRAM STAFF

 Teachers.

 Partner NGOs.

 Non-Teaching staff.
 PARTICIPANTS

 Students
 Stakeholders
 Community
 parents
 ORGANIZATION
Government of sindh
Karachi Health And Nutrition Development Society (HANDS)
Jamshoro Transformation and Reflection for Rural Development (TRD)
Sukkur Indus Resource Center (IRC)
Khairpur Leadership for Environment And Development (LEAD)
Larkana Bright Educational Society (BEST)
Qambar Shahdadkot NGO Development Society (NDS)
Dadu Village Shadabad Organization (VSO)
Hyderabad Sindh Development Society (SDS)
Mirpurkhas Jaggarta Social Welfare Organization (JSWO)
Sanghar DEVCON
 ACTIVITIES

 School Monitoring and Assessment .

 Training of Parent Management Bodies (PMBs).
 District based 5-day trainings for 250 teachers teaching the Behtareen module.
 Regular school visits conducted by SEF.
 SEF provide teacher training support.
 Yearly student assessment and monitoring.
 Rs.500/- per child per month subsidy .
 Provision of Free Books of Taiztareen .
 Training Refresher of Taiztareen Teachers .
 BUDGET

PKR 427.133 million

 PURPOSE OF EVALUATION
Formative Evaluation.
1. Goals achievements as per described object.

It is important to assess and adapt activities to ensure they are as effective as they
can be. Evaluation can help us to identify areas for improvement and ultimately
help realize goals more efficiently.
 OBJECTIVES OF EVALUATION

• To identify the students received quality education and they are able to
red,writte etc.
• To identify is there enough employment opportunity for rural poor people.
• To determine the number of employed person through this program.
• To recognize the level of competencies attained by 14000 students .
• To identify the school management bodies and its effectiveness in
supervision and in administration .
 EVALUATION QUESTIONS

• What type of activities take place /and what type of skills they gain.
• What are the social economical and environmental impact on people or
communities.
• Are participants satisfied with what they gain from this program.
• What extent of impact on participants.
• what challenges or concerns have encountered by school management
bodies with this program?
EVALUATION QUESTION SOURCE OF INFO Method of collecting By whom
info
What type of activities take Teacher , administrative staff Questioner, Teachers,
place /and what type of skills of school, students. interviews. tests students.
they gain. observation.
What are the social Stake holder and Interviews ,questioner Stake holder and
economical and audiences. audiences. Who
environmental impact on are directly or
people or communities. indirectly related.

Are participants satisfied with Students parents teachers . interview's.

what they gain from this
program.

What extent of impact on Teacher , students ,parents Questioner, Teacher ,

participants. observation students ,parents

what challenges or concerns SPMB , administrative staff. interview's. SPMB ,

have encountered by school administrative
PM bodies with this program? staff.