The District Tharparkar is largest desert area of Pakistan, consisting of seven tehsils i.e. Mithi, Diplo, Kaloi, Islamkot, Chachro, Dahali, and Nagarparkar, having 1.6 million populations spread in the largest geographical desert area of Sindh. Girls’ education in Tharparkar is among low priority area for government and semi government institutions/organization.
Like different parts of the country, the arrangement of instructive administrations in the public area in Sindh is restricted because of absence of assets, powerless administration, low prioritization and peripheral political responsibility. Lack of well-working schools, unfortunate foundation of existing schools, and the shortfall of significant local area contribution have brought about low degrees of school support, high drop-out rates, insufficient understudy learning results, and the development of tuition based schools that are frequently unregulated. The absence of young lady well disposed offices, for example, separate lavatories, limit walls, and female educators are key obstructions to female support in conventional tutoring.
A Baseline report conducted in five tehsils of district Tharparkar by DDA outlines that 15,861children ( 7,237 boys and 8,624 girls) are out of schools and around 70% of primary schools are lacking basic school facilities while 95% of visited schools don’t have active School Management Committee- SMCs. The situation in rest of union councils of Tharparkar is not much different from these union councils, so it is supposed that a large number of children are out of school due to several reasons in Tharparkar. This project focuses on enrollment of OOPSC, Provision of school missing facilities and strengthening the capacities of school teachers on ABL & MGT and School Management Committees on operation and maintenance of school physical infrastructure.
During this project phase of 2021, DDAT with the support of Taluka/ District Education Department and UNESCO Pakistan will target 300 government primary schools from twenty union councils of tehsils i.e Mithi, Islamkot, Kaloi, Diplo and Nagarparkar of Tharparkar district which will mainly focus to mainstream 4,000 out of school children (as per criteria of UNESCO) in government schools through strengthen parents’ groups, SMCs and launching enrolment campaign.

Activities Details:

Following Activities has been conducted during the reporting period:
⦁ Advocacy Group Formation
⦁ SMC Activation and Operationalized
⦁ Enrollment Campaign
⦁ Coordination Meeting with Education Department
⦁ Dissemination Of Advocacy/IEC Material
⦁ Conduct baseline assessment of new schools on the tools provided by UNESCO
⦁ Retention Session
⦁ Retention data collected by using Monthly Student Tracking Tool and reported offline and online
⦁ Purchase of ABL and MGT kits for Teachers Trainer
⦁ Teachers trained and ABL and MGT kits provided to trained teachers
⦁ OOSC identified and enrolled.
Geographically, the project targeted the most marginalized areas where girls’ access to and quality of primary education are most challenged.

This phase of project is a also joint plan of UNESCO Pakistan; Educate-A-Child- EAC and Government of Sindh. The project is planned to respond to the challenge of the out of primary school children- OOPSC both boys and girls, especially in most disenfranchised and hardest to reach areas of Pakistan. The project aims at strengthening the institutional capacity of area governments to increase enrolment and retention of out of primary school children through quality education. During this project phase of 2019-20, DDAT with the support of Taluka/ District Education Department and UNESCO Pakistan will target 400 government primary schools from twenty union councils of Taluka Mithi, Diplo, Islamkot, Kaloi and Nagarparkar of Tharparkar district which will mainly focus to mainstream 8000 out of school children (as per criteria of UNESCO) in government schools through strengthen parents’ groups, SMCs and launching enrolment campaign.

This project is a also joint project of UNESCO Pakistan; Educate-A-Child- EAC and Government of Sindh. The project is intended to take action to the challenge of the out of primary school children- OOPSC both boys and girls, particularly in most disenfranchised and hardest to reach areas of Pakistan. The project aims at strengthening the institutional capacity of area governments to increase enrolment and retention of out of primary school children through quality education. During this project phase of 2018-19, DDAT with the support of Taluka/ District Education Department and UNESCO Pakistan will target 300 government primary schools from nine union councils of Taluka Mithi, Diplo, Islamkot and Nagarparkar of Tharparkar district which will mainly focus to mainstream 3,500 out of school children (as per criteria of UNESCO) in government schools through strengthen parents’ groups, SMCs and launching enrolment campaign.

This project is a joint initiative of UNESCO Pakistan; Educate-A-Child- EAC and Government of Sindh. The project is designed to respond to the challenge of the out of primary school children- OOPSC both boys and girls, especially in most disenfranchised and hardest to reach areas of Pakistan. The project aims at strengthening the institutional capacity of area governments to increase enrolment and retention of out of primary school children through quality education. During this project phase of 2017-18 DDAT with the support of Taluka/ District Education Department and UNESCO Pakistan will target 300 government primary schools from eleven union councils of Taluka Mithi, Diplo, Islamkot and Nagarparkar of Tharparkar district which will mainly focus to mainstream out of school children (as per criteria of UNESCO) in government schools through strengthen parents’ groups, SMCs and launching enrolment campaign.

This project aims at supporting the Government of Sindh’s efforts for promoting the right to girls’ education by increasing girls’ access and improving the quality of their education in the selected union councils of district Tharparkar. This will be ensured through community involvement, school improvement and enhancing the capacity of district education office through targeted interventions at both community and institutional levels. The overall purpose of the project is to support the government’s efforts in increasing access to and improving the quality of girls’ education at the primary level through capacity building and targeted interventions at both institutional and community level.
Geographically, the project targeted the most marginalized areas where girls’ access to and quality of primary education are most challenged.