EDUCATION
The education system in Zambia is divided in Pre-school (4 years), Primary school (7 years from Grade 1 to 7), Secondary School (Junior from Grade 8 to 9 and Senior from Grade 10 to 12) and Tertiary education. Besides public schools, the Ministry of General Education recognizes private schools, of either NGOs or religious entities, and community schools. Community schools were born from parents’ initiatives with the aim of reducing the distance between houses and public schools often located several Kilometres far, especially in rural areas. Community schools are the 20% of primary schools in Zambia (UNESCO, 2016).Africa Call Zambia
The Government of the Republic of Zambia and the World Bank entered into a financing agreement (IDA Credit) on the 6th of January, 2016 to implement the Girls Education and Women’s Empowerment and Livelihoods (GEWEL) Project.
• The GEWEL Project aims to increase access to livelihood support for extremely poor rural women and improve access to secondary education for disadvantaged girls identified from extremely poor households in selected districts
• The project commenced in January 2016 and was expected to be implemented for a period of four (4) years up to September 2020. The Project duration, has now been extended to end in April, 2024.
• The Ministry of Education is implementing one of the GEWEL Project component namely, Keeping Girls in School (KGS) Initiative in 39 selected districts across the 10 Provinces of Zambia
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The Government of the Republic of Zambia with support from the World Bank is implementing the Zambia Education Enhancement Project since 2018. The project is a $60 million five-year (2017 – 2022). Operation became effective on April 9, 2018 and being implemented by Ministry of Education (MOE). In May 2020, the project was approved by the World Bank Board to receive additional financing (AF) of US$120 million, making ZEEP a US$180 million operation. With the additional financing, the project’s scope has expanded and implementation period extended to 2025.
The ZEEP AF project development objective (PDO) is to improve the quality of teaching and learning conditions in targeted primary and secondary schools and to increase access to secondary education focusing on girls. As such, ZEEP AF will support four areas including: –
Improving the quality of teaching and learning conditions in language arts, science, and mathematics, in targeted primary and junior secondary schools
• Increasing access to safe secondary schools
• Strengthening institutional capacity for education service delivery and project management
• Enhancing institutional capacity for implementation of safe school program
• Each of these components will be led by respective Directorates who will be supported by other Directorates as well as other institutions within the MOE.
Publications
COMPONENT 1.1: TEACHER QUALITY
1. Strengthening the Teacher Training System
2. Improving Teacher Competencies and Skills
3. Improving Learner Outcomes
• 382 Pilot Schools in all the 10 Provinces
• 12 Colleges of Education
• (ToTs) 764 Teachers and 60 Lecturers
