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Myanmar - Government
partners with NGOs to train PTAs
The government of Myanmar is working with an NGO
called the Community-based Educational Development
Association to train PTAs. The project aims not
only to help PTAs to operate more effectively,
but also to extend their role from fund-raising
and maintenance and construction of buildings.
Under the project, PTAs collect baseline data
with the help of enumerators, set annual enrolment
and retention targets in consultation with teachers
and head teachers, conduct house-to-house advocacy
with parents and unenrolled children, manage the
construction of latrines and water-supply systems
for schools, and provide incentives to encourage
needy children to participate in school The project
is in one sense a centralized initiative; but
it promotes partnership at the school level, and
is decentralizing in the sense that it empowers
communities.
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