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This is the final report on the Education Assistance Programme, which was implemented between April 2010 and December 2012 in six districts in Papua and West Papua.
Children and youth in Papua and West Papua face many obstacles to accessing quality education services with particular segments of society experiencing significant inequalities. In general, factors contributing to disparities in Tanah Papua include: governance and human resource capacity gaps, poverty, geographic isolation, linguistic differences, cultural and social norms including gender discrimination, and HIV and AIDS. Although Tanah Papua has significantly increased access to educational opportunities for school-aged children in less remote areas, the quality and relevance of education services remain uneven, especially in relation to student learning processes in classrooms. For children in more remote and isolated areas, the challenges of access to and quality of education services are even greater.
Within this context, UNICEF, with support from the Australian Government in 2010 and the United States Government (USAID) in 2011, has sought to improve the capacity of provincial, district and school personnel in six districts across the two provinces to conduct strategic planning and to improve management and teaching practices in primary schools.