Education
Strategy
Deprived Urban Children (DUC)
The Larger Agenda
AIF will work towards ensuring that policy makers do not take their eyes off the education for the urban deprived, and systematically invest in planning for UEE for these children. This would entail expanding care and education facilities in urban slums, rethinking on provisioning levels (which are likely to be significantly higher for urban as compared to rural), and investing adequately in quality. AIF will create models and bring them to the attention of the policy makers, as part of its advocacy agenda.
Program Objectives
- Building models of universal coverage with quality & equity for different categories of the deprived urban children - slums, street children
- Leveraging government resources, pressing for upward revision of provisions for the deprived urban category
- Expanding school network (government & alternate) in slums to cover all children
- Work to create local self-governance structures in slums, to work on the agenda of education; build a community discourse on quality & equity issues
Program Activities
- Develop programs to address different categories of DUC
- universal coverage for the 3-14 age group in slums through enhancing enrolment in government schools, and creating alternate schools where no access
- model for coverage of street children addressing needs comprehensively
- quality & equity in learning
- working at scale
- Organizing communities on the issue of care & education of children
- Advocacy towards improving planning & provisioning for UEE for DUC