Afghan Children Read Program: Books Distributed Were Received and Used But Problems Existed With Printing, Distribution, and Warehousing
Abstract
Since 2002, USAID has provided support to print and distribute more than 130 million primary and secondary grade textbooks for students in Afghanistan. In 2009, the Ministry of Education (MoE) initiated a revised curriculum for general and Islamic education. Based on that curriculum, new textbooks for basic education were printed and distributed with the support of USAID and other development partners. Subsequently, in October 2017, the Afghan Independent Joint Anti-Corruption Monitoring and Evaluation Committee (MEC)1 published a report entitled, Ministry-wide Vulnerability to Corruption Assessment of the Ministry of Education that pointed out that there were numerous problems with the printing and distribution of textbooks. Due to the issues laid out in the October 2017 MEC report, we initiated a review of USAID's Afghan Children Read project (ACR), that entailed the printing, distribution and warehousing of hundreds of thousands of student textbooks/workbooks and teacher guide/assessment books, which collectively are referred to as Teaching and Learning Material (TLM), to students in grades 1 through 3. Our objective was to determine whether Teaching and Learning Materials (TLMs) were printed and delivered to the schools and are being used for their intended purposes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1137653
Entities
People
- John Sopko
Organizations
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction