Loading ...West Africa Launches EfE at Buduburam Camp
SHIFSD/Ibis-West Africa Launches EfE at Buduburam Camp
Owing to its institutional outreach objectives through a new programme of capacity-building initiatives with national and sub-regional networks of civil society organizations, Ibis West Africa has officially launched its Education for Empowerment Programme at the Buduburam Refugee Settlement.
The focus of Ibis-West Africa’s EfE programme at Buduburam would target out-of-school children between the ages of 6 and 15 as well as improve the quality of education on the Buduburam Refugee Camp. The programme reckons its secondary target group to be teachers and community education volunteers who will assist in the quality improvement and ‘out-of-school’ programme.
Ibis holds the conviction that the programme’s expected outcome will achieve/ensure:
- A significant number of education actors working together to improve education in deprive areas.
- Significant improvement in the quality of education.
- Significant number of “out-of-school” children gaining basic literacy and numeracy skills.
- Improvement of the status of girls and gender equity within the education sector.
- Significant increase in civil society participation in the education sector.
- School administrators, teachers and education volunteers’ capacities supported to improve their abilities to cope with their role.
The October 2004 launch EfE at the Buduburam Refugee Camp, paying host to approximately 50,000 Liberian refugees underscores Ibis critical intervention in the Mano River Union of which Liberia, Sierra Lone and Guinea are the key stakeholders. Ibis’ focus will be on democratization including media rights, peace-building and conflict resolution.
It must be emphasized that Ibis’ role will indeed be strategic given the huge rate of school dropouts amongst youths at the Buduburam Camp.
