The Launch of the Basic Education Expansion Project [Archives:2001/08/Local News]

Under the motto “Towards Adequate and Quality Basic Education” a workshop of the Basic Education Expansion Project will be held on 26-28 February 2001.
Dr. Abdullatif Almaneefi, Project Director, declared that the workshop will run for three days, and that more than 100 persons from the Projects four governorates, Sana’a, Amran, Al-Mahweet and Al Dhalea, will participate, in addition to the Ministry of Education staff working in the Projects implementation.
The Opening Ceremony will be attended by Ministers, members of Parliament, members of the Consultative Council, Ambassadors of donors’ countries, international organizations representatives and agencies working in the education sector.
Dr. Almaneefi added that this workshop will aim to discuss the status of education in general and basic education in particular, government policies and strategies and the role of the Project in supporting the Ministry strategies.
The workshop will include a number of papers and panel discussions on the Project components and implementation, the papers will be presented by the Ministry of Education staff, implementation teams, Project management as well as The World Bank which is the main financier of the Project.
Dr. Almaneefi pointed out that the projects implementation will be decentralized and will be carried out by Educational Offices in governorates and districts, following the new policies of decentralization and local administration in the country.

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