Accord signed on 71 USAID-built schools in Sindh

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KARACHI: Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mission director Julie Koenen (virtually), and Minister for Education and Literacy Saeed Ghani on Wednesday witnessed the agreement signing between the government of Sindh and the Education Management Organisations (EMOs) to manage 71 USAID-built schools for the next 10 years.

The ceremony held at CM House marked the handing over of management of the schools built under the USAID Sindh Basic Education Programme (SBEP) to the EMOs. Officials from USAID participated virtually while the Sindh government and EMO representatives attended the ceremony in person.

Secretary of Education Ahmed Bakhsh Narejo and representatives of the two selected EMOs — Charter for Compassion (CFC) and Health and Nutrition Development Society (HANDS) — signed the agreements to manage these schools for 10 years.

Under the agreements, both organisations will manage 71 government schools, including 25 new ones, to improve quality of education in four districts of Sindh: Dadu, Qambar-Shahdadkot, Karachi and Larkana.

Published in Dawn, July 23rd, 2020

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Mazhar Zubairi

Jul 23, 2020 10:44am

Sindh rulers and PPP leadership to be ashamed. 80% of the wealth is controlled by PPP and they had taken millions before for schools and this ruling gang of thugs stolen most of it. Now they thinks they can educate the nation from charity, handouts and aid. I can guarantee nothing is going to change and most of the aid money will fill the bellies of the ruling class beggars.

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Roshan Ali Shah

Jul 23, 2020 11:38am

Real work done by US Govt and USAID. Thanks for its support for the improvement of education in Sindh only there requires the transparency and consistency as well as the role of the Education Ministry of Sindh is concerned.

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M. Saeed

Jul 23, 2020 01:54pm

All such accords must be sighned by the Federal Government and properly monitored for fool-proof executions of agreements. The fate of World Bank financed projects of LBOD/RBOD must be enough of the eye openers.

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Haris Janjua

Jul 23, 2020 08:18pm

I have never heard of any aid or help from our iron brother except loans.

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