Abstract

The study made an analysis of the community schools established under the Ammal project in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan implemented with the donor agencies of UK The analysis was made in terms of enrollment quality teachers employment opportunities public-private partnership as well as sustainability The study examined 90 community schools established in Districts Dir Dera Ismail Khan and Mardan The following questions were examined What prompted the sponsors to establish community schools under the Ammal Project What different roles were assigned to different partners of the Project e g the FEF DPE DFID and NGOs for funding coordinating monitoring and implementing the project What was the mechanism for sustainability and replication of community schools What benefits the project brought to the population of the three districts in terms of access quality and employment opportunities What recommendations the study made to address future problems of sustainability for launching similar types of projects in collaboration with other partners The purpose of education at the primary level is the acquisition of basic literacy and numeric skills appreciation of surroundings and socialization of learners to understand and appreciate the dignity and identity of national values culture and community The Primary Education Development Program of the Province involved private sector and communities in promotion of access and quality of primary education Different donors including USAID DFID GTZ NEDA UNICEF JICA PEP-TAC IDA and WFP financed the different components of the program The universalization of primary education remained the corner stone of the National Education Policies of the Government of Pakistan The first priority was to increase the learning of the children by retaining them in schools so that those enrolled completed the primary education cycle The second priority was to provide access to all school age children For ret