Evaluering
Evaluation report of the Speed School program in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger
Speed Schools were started in order to give schooling to non-educated children and reduce early school dropout for children between the ages of 8 to 12 in order to combat poverty and exclusion of marginalized and disadvantaged groups. The program was designed by Malian professor Denis Dougnon in Mali in 2004, and later exported to Burkina Faso in 2006 and Niger in 2007. It covers the first three years of primary education in nine months with a bilingual curriculum, after which graduated children can enrol into the fourth grade of primary school. Speed Schools are implemented by national NGOs in cooperation with the Sub-Regional Permanent Secretariat for Speed School and Strømme Foundation West Africa.The program is evaluated to establish the achievements and effectiveness of the program and to provide the actors with advice regarding strategy for up-scaling of the program.