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The Mountain Trust
Nepal’s education can be improved
•“Radio Guru” will scale up the existing work, distributing wind-up radio receivers to the underserved communities and expanding existing FM school radio coverage to offer quality education for all.
•The Mountain Trust – a UK/Nepalese charity, has worked for 8 years with rural Nepalese communities and has begun broadcasting school programmes alongside other activities.
• Many children work in the mountains crushing stones with no education or health-care and only a subsistence diet.• Long-term improvements require education.
•In many mountainous areas it is impossible to get good teachers and children have to work. Current experience and studies from UNICEF show radio is already an effective solution. Hence the “Radio Guru” Project.
Radio Guru: school on airfor the mountainous regions
Projected targets for Radio Guru:children reached and milestones
•Pilot phase•Increase awareness•Teacher recruitment and curriculum development
•Current work in mountain communities shows positive response•Not enough awareness of the project
2009
•Expansion of curriculum to include primary and adult education
2010 2011 2012 20132008
•Technology investment to increase area of operation
•Start expansion of counties reached
Target children reached
1,500,000
1,000,000
500,000400,000150,000
20,000
•Effectiveness review of method and progress•Expansion of hours of operation
DFID in education in Nepal
• Raised primary school enrolment from 82% to 89%
• Build over 400 new classrooms & repair 200• 7000 additional children enroll to school• Provide 250,000 textbooks• Increase the number of children from excluded groups to complete school
Source: DFID Development in Nepal 2009-2012
Although only 42% of those who
enroll actually finish secondary
school
Although only 42% of those who
enroll actually finish secondary
school
Although difficult to measure
impacts and many needs remain un-
served
Although difficult to measure
impacts and many needs remain un-
served
We are working towards the same goals
Mountain Trust’s principles
“Radio Guru” project can promote and demonstrate DFID’s impact
Results possible with staggered funding
• Pilot phase• Increase awareness• Teacher recruitment and curriculum development
•Effectiveness review of method and progress•Expansion of hours of operation
•Technology investment to increase area of operation
•Start expansion of counties reached
•Expansion of curriculum to include primary and adult education
Begin pilot projects in specific areas
£50,000End pilot projectReach 2010 targets
£100,000
Run project throughout Nepal for 5 years
£350,000
•Reproduction in other remote areas of the world, such as Afghanistan
Summary: Benefits of Radio Guru