Building Skills for Human Capital Development in South Sudan

The development objective of the Building Skills for Human Capital Development in South Sudan Project is to increase skills development opportunities in teaching and digital agriculture and strengthen capacity for management of the education system. The project comprises of five components. The first component, teaching skills to strengthen education delivery will build the foundations for a scalable and effective teacher professional development system tailored to the context of South Sudan. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthen pre-service teacher training and in-service teacher professional development; (ii) teacher professional development for refugee and host community teachers; (iii) accelerated secondary education; and (iv) evaluation of teacher professional development program. The second component, digital skills for agriculture will support the development and implementation of an innovative digital agriculture skills program. It consists of following sub-components: (i) establishment of a digital agriculture skills program; and (ii) establishment of a digital agriculture skills program. The third component, inclusion of refugee and host communities will support the re-operationalization of schools in refugee hosting areas in Ruweng Administrative Area, Upper Nile State, Western Equatoria, and Central Equatoria. It consists of following sub-components: (i) refurbishment and equipment of school facilities; (ii) schools grants for operational expenditures; (iii) strengthening school management; and (iv) recruitment of qualified teachers. The fourth component, system building will provide support to the government to operationalize and strengthen fundamental elements of a functional education system. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening system governance and accountability; (ii) strengthening data for education system management; and (iii) project management. The fifth component, contingency emergency response...