El
Salvador
A
country, with 47% of the population under age 17, El Salvador has far
too many working children, especially street children, left without parental
care. Moreover, in spite of certain reforms and of an increase in spending
for teaching since 1994, there still remains much to do to increase access
and increase the quality of education, which remains overall poor.
Basic
indicators
Population:
GNI
per capita (US$):
Under-5
mortality rate (0/00):
Life
expectancy at birth (years):
Men
literacy rate (%):
Women
literacy rate (%):
Primary school attendance rate boys/girls (%):
Primary school children reaching grade 5 (%):
Access to drinking water (%):
Population annual growth rate (%):
Urban population (%):
source:
The Official Summary of the State of the World's Children 2005,
UNICEF
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6'762'000
2540
25
72
82
76
1
88/75
1
71
84
1.8
60 |
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EdM
projects in Salvador - Coordinator
for Central America: Léonel VELASQUEZ
Quality
education in rural zone
Context
: Reforms were undertaken since 1994 by the Salvadoran State in
the field of education. But while coverage and the access may have been
improved, the quality of teaching remains poor. The pedagogical training
given to the teachers did not basically change their authoritative educational
approach, based on memorization and repetition. Large class sizes seriously
limits quality improvement. In fact, the national education system of
El Salvador, like others in Latin America, encounters great difficulties
in implementing educational approaches which would enable significantly
improvements in the education processes.
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Project
: In partnership with the Salvadoran Foundation for Popular
Education (CIAZO), EdM has undertaken a project aimed at improving
the quality of primary education in 5 schools in the rural zone.
The students of the centres benefit from teaching adapted to their
reality, dispensed by teachers from the zone. This experience
began to receive support from the Ministry of Education in 2003,
a step towards formal recognition.
In addition, EdM supports the “Concertación
Educativa de El Salvador” (CEES), platform of reflection and negotiation
with the State, whose objective is to strengthen the organization
of teachers and parents-teachers associations and to obtain recognition
of the rural community schools and the teachers by the Ministry
of Education. |
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Partner
: Enfants du Monde
collaborates since 1995 with CIAZO, a local NGO founded in 1989 that
specializes in education and training. In addition, CEES, the other
partner of the project, houses 16 organizations and undertakes actions
for broad popular consultation and discussion with the state.
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Maternal
and New-born Health Program
Context :
In El Salvador , the child mortality rate is 31 per 1'000 whereas it is
only 5 per 1'000 in Switzerland , for instance. In rural areas, such as
Sonsonate, health infrastructures are limited : 1 doctor and 1 care center
for more than 30'000 people.
The project :
Integrated in the National Strategic Plan for Maternal and Perinatal
Mortality Reduction of the Health Ministry, this project consists
in, not only providing care and preventing diseases but also in
mobilizing all the resources required in order to improve the health
of mothers, children and of thousands of families living in two
municipalities of the Sonsanote District. Health Education workshops,
transportation network, local medical insurance, quality of care,
are as many interventions implemented in close collaboration with
la Concertación Educativa de El Salvador (CEES), EdM's 10-year
partner, with the Health Ministry and the Pan-American Health Organization
(PAHO-WHO).
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The part played by EdM:
Assist in the implementation of the Individual – Families – Communities
(IFC) approach by beginning with a participative community-based diagnostic
in the selected municipalities, that will be the groundwork for the elaboration
of different phases of the project and whose medium-term objective is
the extension, by the Health Ministry, of this intervention model to other
districts of El Salvador in order to improve Maternal and New-born health
at the national scale.
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