Dubai: Dubai Cares on Sunday announced that it has partnered with an organisation to improve primary education and reduce school dropout rates in India that will benefit more than one million children in three years.
Dubai Cares will collaborate with Pratham Education Foundation, an Indian non-governmental organisation, to launch programmes to assist local communities in six Indian states by strengthening educational programmes in government schools. The programme has 1.05 million direct beneficiaries.
The programme will enhance the learning levels at beneficiary schools, provide school readiness among children in Grades 1 and 2, as well as support the Central Resource Group.
Tareq Al Gurg, CEO of Dubai Cares, said the partnership will help pupils achieve high levels of literacy and numeracy skills.
“We place a lot of emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and learning, so this programme will also serve as demonstration sites to generate evidence and showcase best practices that can be replicated across the country to enhance the educational support system on a national level,” Al Gurg said.
The partnership will support Pratham in its efforts to reverse school dropout rates and low learning levels prevalent in the country. India is one of 135 nations to make education a fundamental right with the Right to Education Act in effect around the country.
India has achieved the target for universal primary education set under the Millennium Development Goal 5. But its educational system has been handicapped by many factors including inadequate teacher qualification and support, low teacher motivation, and high absenteeism, among others, leading to a lack of motivation for students to continue in school.
Dubai Cares will also support the Central Resource Group that will focus on four key functions of content creation, research and development, training, and advocacy. Results will allow Dubai Cares to fine-tune as well as improve the standards of existing interventions to deliver stronger content, training, and analyses.
