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Basic Education System Overhaul
(BESO II)
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Location:
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Ethiopia |
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Dates:
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2002 to 2004 |
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Funder:
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USAID/Ethiopia |
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Budget:
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$14.2 million; total budget for the five years is $25.5 million |
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Chief of Party
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Home Office Project Coordinator
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| Objective |
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The primary objective of BESO II is to improve the quality and equity of primary education in Ethiopia, building on successes of the Basic Education System Overhaul (BESO I) Project. While working with the national Ministry of Education in Addis Ababa, BESO I gave special attention to strengthening the education system in two of the regions, Tigray and the Southern Nations, Nationalities Peoples' Region (SNNPR). The BESO Project was designed around five major objectives as follows:
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Improved quality and equity of the primary school environment |
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Improved efficiency and effectiveness of Ministry services |
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Improved pre service teacher training |
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Improved decentralized management |
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Improved sectoral financing. |
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| The project started in two districts and the central government and is now being taken nationally in Phase II. |
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| Components |
| As part of BESO II, AED provides technical services in the following nine contract components: |
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Pre-service teacher training |
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In-service teacher training |
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School leadership training |
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Supplementary media development and training |
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Socially relevant curriculum integration |
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Women teacher support systems |
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Capacity building of the MOE and REBs to manage direct financial support |
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Personnel and instructional materials management, planning, monitoring, evaluation and information systems, and student assessment |
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Monitoring, evaluating, reporting, and analysis |
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| Activities |
| Some of the activities of BESO II include: |
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Short- and long-term technical assistance (TA) |
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Support to/provision of non-academic in-country and third-county workshops, conferences, training, and observation tours |
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Provision of capacity building equipment and materials to participating teacher training colleges and institutes |
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Provision of basic materials production and reproduction equipment and supplies to cluster center schools; development and dissemination of information on teacher development and child-centered/active-learning best practices |
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Development, production, dissemination, and training in use of self-instructional continuing education "kits" for lower primary teacher in-service training |
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Data collection, harmonization where necessary, analysis, and reporting, as part of an overall BESO-II monitoring support function |
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Provision of necessary equipment to complement assistance to intermediaries as appropriate |
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| Other AED Projects in Ethiopia |
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Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS I & II), USAID, 1993 to 2004 |
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Behavior Change, Innovation, State of the Art (The CHANGE Project), USAID, 1998 to 2004 |
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Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA), USAID, 1998 to 2003 |
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Measure Three Project- Dissemination and Utilization of Data, USAID, 1997 to 2003 |
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Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA I and II), USAID, 1992 to 2003 |
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Health and Human Resources Analysis for Africa (HHRAA), USAID, 1992 to 2003 |
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Sustainable Approaches for Nutrition in Africa (SANA), USAID, 1995 to 2003 |
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