Transcript USAID: Programs and Projects

USAID: Programs and Projects
• 21st Century Basic Education Program (Mtwara & Zanzibar)
– 2011-2015: $94,000,000: Creative Associates ($45,000,000 matching)
• Lower Primary Deaf Education (Mtwara & Zanzibar)
– 2010-2014: $625,000 : Global Deaf Connection
• Affordable Private Schools (Zanzibar)
– 2011-2013: $2,000,000: The Mitchell Group
• Kisa (“Story”) Project [Upper Secondary Leadership] (Arusha)
– 2011-2013: $550,000: AfricAid ($300,000 matching)
• ACCESS [scholarships] / ELEAP [adult literacy] (Arusha)
– 2007-2013: $2,800,000: MWEDO – Maasai Women Development Organization
• Pastoralist Girls’ Education Support (Arusha)
– 2009-2013: $560,000: Emusoi Centre (Arusha)
• BridgeIT (Dar es Salaam, Coast, Lindi, Mtwara, Dodoma, Kilimanjaro and
Tanga)
– 2008-2011: $3,800,000: International Youth Foundation
USAID: Priorities – 2011
• Begin implementing the 21st Century Basic
Education Program under USAID/Tanzania
Education Strategy
• Find a way to continue funding non-lower
primary education projects – MWEDO,
Emusoi, and Kisa – as part of gender strategy
• Explore supporting “Host Country Systems” as
part of USAID Forward (new strategy)
USAID: Challenges
• 21st Century Basic Education Program in Mtwara
& Zanzibar –
– Two Steering Committees – Coordination
– Embedding COP and Senior Policy Advisor at MOEVT
• MWEDO, Emusoi, and Kisa
– Continued Funding Rationale – Coordination
• “Host Country Systems”
– Buy-In from MOEVT