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Research Conc. and Rec.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Summary
The problems of gender bias against the education for female begin
at home and are common in whole Africa. Different United Nations declarations and Conventions have provided to ensure the whole welfare
of the basic education especially for girls has been improved. The government of Zanzibar
has showed its commitments to those declarations by implanting them but also encouraging local institutions, to join hands
so as to make achievements. This leads to the establishment of the IQBEZ/BEF project under the Changamoto LPF, the Zanzibar local NGO.
The main purpose of this study was to assess the IQBEZ/BEF project.
The study revealed that, despite of fewer problems observed, the project has successively implementing what was planned to
be done, and for some extent the problems have been reduced. The community are now aware the importance of basic education
for their children, this has improve the number of parents monitor the school development of their children though it is not
reaching 100 percent.
The project have also contributing in improving
the teaching capacity to different teachers in 6 selected schools, this has also contributing in the increased number of enrolled
pupils and the number who entering secondary classes. Schools environmental are also improving. Despite the performance of
the project registered, various bottlenecks hindered the implementation in some areas.
5.2
Conclusions
Basing on the
discussion made above, the following are the conclusions.
- During the study it was observed that, the implementation of activities were sometimes delaying
or not properly covered, and some time schools fail to implement important aspect of schools development outside the project.
This situation was contributing highly by lack of important resources like funds. The community has been properly paying the
contributions as directed by the Ministry of Education Zanzibar, but those contributions seemed not to be enough for schools
development. Though the community has gained the skills on formulation of schools development/work plans, they always fail
or delaying to implement them due to insufficient resources.
- To make project more sustainable, more community needs to be fully involved. The project has been
using fewer and simple methods on community mobilization. Most of the times the project has been using community sensitization
meetings and provision of posters only to deliver the message to the community, where a small number of community have receive
the message. Since the schools servicing the whole community, which is large, the project awareness have to reach large part
of the community, and make to sure that they are fully involved in the whole process of planning.
- Little have done to mobilize the community, to consider gender when formulate various organizations
and committees concerning schools development. This is also making the project to deliver training to more than 70 percent
males of schools committees’ members and less than 30 percent female. This is destroying the rights and effectiveness
of women in decision-making as urged by the United Nations declarations on the women rights. In fighting the girls’
educational rights and development, different aspects of community’s welfare need to consider gender issues.
- It was also observed that, the Changamoto LPF, lack integration with other organizations. For the
NGO and project staffs to be competent, understanding and face the challenges of today’s world development have to agree
and practice the integration with different organization inside and outside the country dealing with welfare of the community.
By doing this, some problems of the communities will be solved collectively in collaboration with other organizations, again
will help the project staffs to cope the means and techniques of doing thing.
- Though the project have little capacity of reaching the whole community during the mobilization
activities, there were some households with the project’s capacity and scope, by different reasons don’t attend
any meetings and not participate in project implementation and any schools development activities. This also seemed to hinder
the development process of the schools since any community’s development needs a fully support from the community.
5.3 Recommendations
Based on the conclusions obtained during the field work the
following recommendations can be helpful in improving the situation;
- To
reduce the financial problems facing schools, the project in collaboration with the community should be creative to establish
various activities that could raise funds to the project and schools, in order to solve some problems and make project sustainable.
This could be done through investing on different economic aspects and conducting different charities contributions.
- In order to make the community fully aware and implementing the project, the ‘Advocacy’ as a main strategy should be used by all the Changamoto LPF, governments and other non-governmental
organizations to expand access to girls’ basic education in the community. Important Medias like radio, television,
drama and print media have to be used to encourage disadvantaged groups to enter the schools. This strategy has been successively
used by UNICEF in different country like, East Timor and results into achievements. Sensitization should expand also to the community level, especially
to the parents to take their roles in the development of basic education especially for girls, for example, visiting/monitor
the children’s schools attendance and performance. This could reduce the some problems especially for girls like stopping
the schools before the time, and early pregnancies.
iii. Women as an important part of the society
should be fully involved in all steps of planning and decision – making, or at least reaches 30 percent in organization
before making any decisions. This will improve the efficiency of the project and make high degree of achievements in project’s
activities. By doing this, the women in the community themselves will fell comfortable and ownership of the project, the thing
could lead to sustainability of the project also.
iv. The project should make integration with different organization
inside and outside the country
(governmental and non-governmental),
this will raise the organizational
working capacity through gaining
knowledge obtained through sharing
experience between those
organizations. This could be
possible if the project management uses
Information Technologies (IT)
exist.
- To
achieve the community development and since they have already sensitized, member of the community have to change and participate
in different activities of not only the project but also the whole community’s development.
6.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDIX 1: MAP
OF ZANZIBAR
APPENDIX II: QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE HOUSEHOLDS
APPENDIX III:
QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE PROJECT COORDINATOR/TEACHERS/SCHOOL COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
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