MERP Background
The Malawi Government through the Ministry of Education is implementing the Malawi Education Reform Programme (MERP) in a bid to improve learning environment in public primary schools. MERP is a 210 Million United States Dollars Project, being implemented from 2021 to 2025 with support from the World Bank and Global Partnership for Education (GPE) in all 34-education districts in the country. Through MERP, Government is expanding the School Improvement Grant (SIG) to a minimum of K800,000 per school. The project is also facilitating the construction of 10,900 cost effective classrooms and 1,000 sanitation blocks in 3,553 public primary schools in the country. MERP has also hired 4,200 auxiliary teachers, providing rural allowance scheme to teachers in remote schools and recruited 2,605 girls as learner mentors.
In order to improve learning outcomes, accountability and cost-effectiveness at school level; MERP is training 400 Primary Education Advisors, 7,800 Head teachers and 2,000 female Section Heads.
The program consists of six programme components are as follows: Expanding and Reforming Primary School Improvement Grants; improved Learning Environments in Lower Primary to Support Learning Recovery After COVID-19; Supporting Girls’ Learning; School Leadership Programme, Project Coordination and Capacity Building; and Contingent Emergency Response Component.
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Objective
The Project Development Objective is to improve learning environments for learners in lower public primary schools.
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