Luanda – The Young girls' Empowerment and Learning for All Project (PAT II) foresees the creation of conditions for students to remain in school, aiming to promote gender equality and to fight teenage pregnancy.
According to the minister of Education, Luísa Grilo, PAT II aims also to raise the access to sexual and reproductive health, build and rehabilitate schools to reduce poverty, enlarge the educational offer, in addition to promoting a quality education nationwide.
Luísa Grilo who was speaking Monday, in Luanda, at the opening ceremony on the training of education office directors and secretariats, said that it is necessary to enhance the quality indicators of the education and teaching system, taking the good advantage of the financial support, as well as the technical assistance of various United Nations (UN) agencies.
The project at national level will be implemented in the 68 municipalities of the 18 provinces of Angola and, to this end, 226 technicians are being trained among provincial directors of education and focal points in the 18 provinces to empower young people, especially girls, and promote learning for all.
She also informed that the Ministry of Education intends to provide participants with tools for the development of competences and an overall approach to everyone included in the PAT II project.
She went on to say that the institution is working in a harmonious and assertive manner in the implementation of the project, aiming for tangible and measurable results.
“The training of education agents is fundamental to improve teaching quality and to strengthen human capital”, she added.
The participants will address issues such as school healthcare, extension of education for young people and adults, statistics, pre-primary education, evaluation, acquisitions and accounting.
The training, running under the slogan “Empowering managers to meet the challenges of the sector”, will close on 3 February, in the capital of Angola.
