Strengthen Civil Society Participation in Primary Education Mozambique

The Eu Leio activity is focused on improving the reading competencies of 1st and 2nd grade students through the distribution and use of learning and reading materials to target primary schools. Furthermore, the activity seeks to improve capacity building of school councils to increase social auditing and monitoring of education services, empower communities and parents to monitor early grade reading outcomes, and hold education personnel accountable to local communities for learning outcomes. The activity aims to reach close to 110,000 1st and 2nd grade students to grade level reading competence, allowing them to easily understand what they are reading and master future knowledge. By the end of the activity, it is expected that over 27,000 of these students will be reading with fluency. Recent accomplishments include: 116 School Councils actively participating in and monitoring annual school plans and teacher/student tardiness and absenteeism; 116 school libraries established within existing school structures with 70 titles of books provided, and 144 teachers trained in library management and reading information; Increased number of community users of the Olavula SMS platform that enables parents and communities to ask questions and demand solutions from schools and school directors; and 116 District Education Plans elaborated based on critical gaps identified by School Councils and local Civil Society Organizations.

Eu Leio项目聚焦于通过向目标小学配发并使用学习与阅读材料，提升一、二年级学生的阅读能力。此外，该项目还旨在加强学校理事会（School Councils）的能力建设，以提升教育服务的社会审计与监督质效；赋能社区与家长监督低年级学生的阅读成果，并督促教育从业人员依据学习成果向当地社区履职尽责。本项目目标是帮助近11万名一、二年级学生达到年级阅读水平，使其能够轻松理解阅读内容并掌握后续学习所需的知识。项目收官之际，预计其中超2.7万名学生将具备流畅阅读能力。近期已取得的成果包括：116家学校理事会积极参与并监督学校年度计划、教师与学生的迟到及缺勤情况；依托现有校舍建成116所学校图书馆，配备70种馆藏图书，并完成144名图书馆管理与阅读信息相关教师的培训；Olavula短信平台的社区用户数量实现增长，该平台可支持家长与社区向学校及校长提出疑问并要求解决相关问题；完成116份基于学校理事会与当地民间社会组织（Civil Society Organizations）识别出的关键短板制定的地区教育计划（District Education Plans）。