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Society for Community Support for Primary Education in Balochistan (SCSPEB )

3-A Ahmedzai Colony Sariab Road Quetta Ph:440732 E-mail:society@scspeb.qta.sdnpk.org

The Society for Community Support for Primary Education in Balochistan (SCSPEB), commonly known as SCSPEB or Society, is an NGO, established in 1992 under the Societies Act 1860. 

It is a service organization, which works through contracts with Government, International/National funding and supporting agencies.

 Its mission is to create partnership between Govt. and Communities in all social sectors for sustainable development.

 The SCSPEB has been working in Balochistan since last eight years for building the partnership between Communities and Government on sustainable basis through Social Mobilization and Capacity Building. This resulted more than 2400 formal groups/committees with 50% female committees, organized and working in various social sectors for the development of their area. To form these committees, SCSPEB field workers have been working intensively in field and visited more than 2000 villages. This generated a positive impact and developed an external contact to the far-flung areas of Balochistan, where the basic facilities are not available. The villages where the formal groups are organized, there, the SCSPEB had conducted various phase wise trainings to build the capacity of illiterate/ignorant people to make them effective and efficient partner in the developmental activities. These trainings impacted and developed a sense of ownership within the community to maintain the basic facilities provided to their village. This also created a positive impact on the communities to organize their resources rather than depending wholly on government.

 The SCSPEB believes in Community Participation for sustainable development and its process has proved that the sustainable development is possible if the communities are involved properly.

 The achievements made so far are:

 ¨      Girl’s Primary Schools and Gender free schools                              1075

(Functioning with the support of Community and Government)

¨      Formal Groups Organized                                                               2400 (approx)

¨      PTSMCs/SMCs                                                                             3365

¨      Information Collection/Sharing meetings with stake holders  3000 (approx)

¨      Workshops/Seminars                                                                      250

¨      Advocacy Meetings                                                                        150

¨      Linkages Meetings                                                              150

¨      Increase in Enrollment by                                                                50,000 children

¨      Home Schools in Urban Slums of Quetta                                         17

¨      Fellowship Schools in Urban and Rural Areas of Balochistan           69

 The brief of some of the educational programs is given below, the other programs have also lot of details, which can be shared and provided on request.

 1-         Rural Fellowship Programme

 Rural Fellowship Programme was initiated in 1994 with the financial support of Directorate of Primary Education (PED).  Its purpose was to establish private primary schools where Matric and Middle pass female candidates were not available.  It was completed on 30th June, 1998.

 2-         Urban Fellowship Programme

 Urban Fellowship Program was started in 1994 with the financial support of Balochistan Education Foundation (BEF).  Its purpose was to open private Primary Schools by serving low income, under privileged areas of the towns across the province.  It was completed on 30th June, 1999.

 3-         Home Schools

 Home School program was initiated in 1992 with the support of Habib Bank Trust.  Its purpose was to provide basic primary education to dropped out or missed out boys and girls and to prepare those children who are not yet ready for a regular school.  Its establishment was completed in June 1997 but still the Habib Bank is extending its financial support in shape of teachers salary till December 1999.

 The SCSPEB has been focussing on the following areas for improving and enhancing the life standard of the poor communities:

 ¨      Community Support Process (CSP) for the service delivery of education

¨      Micro credit for uplifting of Socio-economic conditions of the poor

¨      To trickle down the planning process at the community level to equip them with the principle of good governance

¨      Water & Sanitation facilities to provide safe drinking water to the communities

¨      To focus the health & hygiene in order to overcome the disease in the communities.

 The funding organizations who have extended their support in achieving the above are: Government of Balochistan, World Bank, Unicef, TVO, CIDA, UNDP, ADB and Govt. of Netherlands.