Country Reports on Terrorism 2012

supported International School of Kabul, which provides an American-style education, enrolled
375 students, 80 percent of whom are Afghans and 38 percent of whom are female. Projects
expanded access to education by establishing new schools applying the nationally-approved
curriculum, and focused on the professional development of teachers, particularly female
teachers. USAID provided 18,567 teachers with complete in-service training to improve their
classroom performance and further their professional development. There were also 11,000
education administrators trained to improve school management and performance. USAID’s preservice
teacher education program awarded Master of Education degrees to 21 teachers. In 2012,
13 million textbooks were printed as a component of a new three-year, on-budget agreement
with the Ministry of Education. USAID’s community-based education program, which is
transitioning to a new on-budget program aligned with the Ministry of Education, supported
approximately 40 supervisory staff, who supported the more than 60,000 students in rural
community schools.
EUROPE AND EURASIA
Kosovo. USAID continued its basic education program, a five-year US $9,791,000 initiative
designed to benefit all public primary and lower secondary schools in Kosovo, grades one
through nine. The project has three components: to enhance school management capacities in a
decentralized environment, strengthen the assessment of learning outcomes, and improve inservice
teacher development. In 2012, 118,000 students benefited from the project activities; of
these, 61,360 were girls. The project trained 3,735 teachers, 707 members of school boards and
student and teacher councils, and 45 Ministry of Education and Science officials. The project
also adapted an early grade reading assessment to the Albanian language. The project established
partnerships with 15 local and international partners and closely collaborated with local
municipalities and communities to refurbish 52 classrooms. Collaboration and cooperation with
donors and the private sector includes partnerships with the Teacher Training Project of
Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Zuzammenarbeit and the EU, with the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency-supported Education Technology program. Intel and
Microsoft will integrate technology in classrooms.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
Djibouti. Basic education funding in 2012 continued to assist the Ministry of Education
(MENFOP) in achieving its education-for-all goal for all school-aged Djiboutian children.
USAID’s basic education program focused on improving the education system through
decentralized teacher training, strategic planning and budgeting, enhanced community
participation, improving the Education Management Information System (EMIS), and increasing
learning for out-of-school youth. Host country strategic information capacity was improved
through the establishment of a software application that accurately captures statistical data.
EMIS focused on building the capacity of MENFOP staff at national and regional levels;
decentralized planning deepened MENFOP skills both at central and regional levels to collect
and analyze education data. Under the community mobilization component, 50 school
improvement projects were implemented by Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs), and 101 PTAs
benefitted from training that focused on improving reading in primary education and enhancing
gender equality. Assistance also focused on activities that improve children's reading abilities
and learning outcomes. It introduced the Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) tool to assess
reading skills and determine a baseline for future programming. EGRA experts introduced the
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