Nesmy MANIGAT, the Minister of National Education gave an update on the new Support Project for the Ten-Year Education and Training Plan (PAPDEF) financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to the tune of 50 million dollars.

It should be recalled that the PAPDEF was designed by the Ministry of National Education, in support of the objectives set within the framework of the Ten-Year Education and Training Plan (PDEF).

The departments of North-West, North-East, North, Artibonite, Center and West are the areas targeted under this new project, in addition to the regions already taken into account in the framework of the former Quality Assurance System project, supported by the IDB. The essential objective is to provide a set of basic services for access to education at the basic school level in the network of public schools.

In addition, support is planned for the relaunch of school activities in Nippes, South and Grande-Anse. A particular effort is planned for the establishment of school canteens. It is also planned to finalize the construction of 8 public schools and equip them with school furniture as part of the Program for Access to Quality Education in Haiti.

The four key components of the project relate to Governance and institutional strengthening; access to basic public education; the quality assurance system in public basic schools and the component relating to the management and monitoring of the project.

Among the main actions planned, the schooling subsidy, school canteens, the distribution of school kits and textbooks, the training of teachers, the dissemination of distance courses and the strengthening of the PRATIC Platformhttps://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-30614-haiti-education-the-online-teaching-platform-is-operational.html and the construction of schools.

As part of the governance component for school support, certain criteria related to the Teaching Permit and the School Identification Card are essential. Support is envisaged in this regard for the strengthening of the Education Management Information System.

HL/ HaitiLibre