“The announcement of EFA FTI initiative is an outcome of the Nepal March for Education, the month-long march organized by Backward Society Education in Nepal (Base Nepal), Bachpan Bachao Andolan, Global March Against Child Labor and other partners,” the secretariat said in a statement.
The EFA-FTI in its recent donor meeting in Rome announced US$153 million grant to Lesotho, Nepal and Tajikistan to support programs to enroll children in school, have them complete primary education and improve quality of learning. Of this, US$120 million was announced for Nepal.
The overall grant will help address needs of approximately a million out-of-school children living in these countries.
The grant will also finance multi-lingual teaching, teachers´ training, building and rehabilitation of schools and provision of basic school materials to over 60,000 students, according to the statement.
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