Tanga receives 940.9m/ for school programme
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- 18 Apr 2023
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Tanga City Council has received 940.9m/ from Boost Primary Student Learning (BOOST) for the development and strengthening of the city’s pre-primary and primary education.
According to a statement issued by Musa Laban, Acting Head of the City Council Communications Unit, the funds would be used, among other things, to build a new primary school at Jaje within the City at a cost of 540.3m/.
BOOST is part of the Education Programme for Results (EPforR II), an innovative, results-based financing programme now in its second phase and supported by the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the World Bank, the government of Sweden (SIDA), the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), and the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
According to Mr Laban, the funds will also be used to build 12 new classrooms at Bombo, Mabawa, Mapambano and Msara primary schools at a cost of 300m/, with each school receiving three new classrooms.
As part of the city’s effort to strengthen pre-primary education, two new pre-primary school classrooms will be built under the BOOST programme, at Mapojoni Primary Schools at a cost of 89m/. The BOOST programme will also include the construction of fifteen new toilets.
According to a World Bank press release issued two years ago in Washington, BOOST will support the Government’s Education Sector Development Plan over the next five years by providing results-based financing to catalyze reforms and implement interventions in three main areas:
It aims to strengthen Tanzania’s education system in order to improve quality, equity, and access in the public education system by supporting the provision of safer and learning-conducive environments for pre-primary and primary students, assisting schools in meeting minimum infrastructure requirements, and implementing a Primary Safe School Programme (PSSP). Read More…
