The tender for the UK’s Department For International Development (DFID) funded Sierra Leone Secondary Education Improvement Program (SSEIP) has been released.
The Terms of Reference confirm that this is designed as a 5 year program, approx. £35m to run from 2016/17 to 2020/21 and that it will support 5 key priorities/objectives:
1) Support for girls to be in secondary school and safe.
2) Improve learning conditions in schools
3) Strengthen MEST capacity to plan, monitor and manage service delivery.
4) Strengthen District capacity to hold schools and teachers to account
5) Improved understanding through monitoring, research and learning.
The program will be in two distinct phases. First phase to run from contract award to end of June 2017, and will support the delivery of the Education output of the President’s Recovery Priorities.
The second phase, from July 2017 to March 2021, is currently open and a key task of the managing consultancy, in association with UNICEF, will be to ‘support the design of the second phase in the light of the experience of the President’s Recovery Priorities for education and new emerging priorities.
Tuesday June 28, 2016
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