The project will provide technical support to empower marginalized population groups through literacy and subsequently contributing to poverty reduction, UNESCO said in a press release.
The project, which also includes training, will directly benefit around 1,000 illiterate girls and women as well as members of other disadvantaged groups through classes that will be moderated by some 50 local literacy facilitators.
But the most important project activity consists in developing literacy training methods and reference materials in Dhanusha and Kapilvastu districts, where the adult literacy rate is below the national average of 48%.
“The project will provide innovative, mother tongue-based modalities to better deliver basic literacy and post-literacy programs in rural communities” said Axel Plathe, Head of Office and Representative of UNESCO to Nepal. ‘We are grateful to the Government of Japan to accompany the government of Nepal and the development partners in this endeavor”.
A first phase of the project was implemented jointly with the Non-Formal Education Center (NFEC) of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in the districts of Ramechhap, Kapilvastu and Jumla. The project contributed to revise and update literacy package in Nepali language and develop literacy packages in Awadhi and Khas.
The new phase of the project launched yesterday will be implemented within the country’s overall framework of the development plan and School Sector Reform Plan (SSRP, 2009-2015) with a US$ 100,000 grant from Japan, the press released added.
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