Lack of community participation in the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan: a case study.
2009; Sameeksha Trust; Volume: 44; Issue: 8 Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
0012-9976
Autores Tópico(s)Education Methods and Practices
ResumoPradesh. It shows that community participation in improving education is negligible and that members of the semcs have limited awareness of the ssa. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (ssa) is a flagship programme that aims to provide useful and relevant elementary education to all children in the 6 to 14 age group by 2010 and bridge social, regional and gender gaps. It assigns the greatest importance to systematic mobilisation of the community and creation of an effective system of decentralised decision-making. Almost all states and union territories have constituted school education management committees (semcs) under the ssa. These committees are to ensure community participation. The nomenclature of the community level structure varies from state to state.1 These community level structures play a key role in micro-planning, especially in the development of a village education plan and school improvement plans. Under ssa the annual work plan and budget is prepared in a participatory planning process by these communities and they take into account local needs and specificity. The SEMC is the mechanism through which public funds for education services flows to the village, through which planning, implementation and monitoring are coordinated.2 Based on these objectives it is proposed to assess awareness in the scheduled tribe (st) Rampachodavaram agency area in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh3 to track the impact of the ssa during first phase of its implementation. The Rampachodavaram agency is a backward area in terms of literacy levels of the tribal populaTable1;SclectlonofSun tion in the district. It
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