PAREC: call for more connection with local authorities to improve schools in rural areas

PAREC - Cameroon

What responses to the persistent inequalities in our education system highlighted in 2013 by the Strategy Document for the Education and Training Sector? As a solution, the government has undertaken reforms to improve equitable access to quality basic education with a focus on certain targeted disadvantaged areas, in particular the Support Program for the Reform of Education in Cameroon (PAREC) in partnership. with the World Bank. Created by Decree No. 134 / PM of December 10, 2018, PAREC will, among other things, strengthen support for schools hosting forced displaced persons and its objectives are:

• Improve the allocation of teachers recruited by the government in public primary schools;

• Strengthen the capacities of teachers for the effective and efficient use of new curricula;

• Increase the availability of essential textbooks in public primary schools;

• Develop preschool in rural areas;

• Systematize the assessment of learning outcomes at the primary and lower secondary levels;

• Establish a functional and operational sectoral Education Information and Management System (EMIS);

• Improve the environment and the quality of education in primary schools in areas hosting refugees and internally displaced people;

• Improve school performance through Performance Based Funding.

The pilot phase of PAREC is gradually enrolling in 7 years, 5,000 schools in the regions of the Far North, North, Adamaoua, East, West, North-West, South-West , the Center, the Coast and the South.