EDUWATCH to Track DACF-apportioned Basic School Funding Utilisation
The Executive Director of Africa Education Watch (EDUWATCH), Kofi Asare, says his outfit is developing a tracking system to monitor how districts use the GHS 5 million education allocation under the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF).
“We will be partnering with local NGOs and committees, non-partisan citizens to voluntarily track procurement and implementation.”
Applauding the allocation as an “unprecedented big boost” for basic education infrastructure aside from the national level GETFund allocation, he stated that the policy will lead to infrastructure improvement if sustained for the next four years.
In his estimation, this means that in a deprived district like Tatale Sanguli, where 70 per cent of primary schools have no Junior High School (JHS), the GHS 5 million can build six (6) furnished JHS blocks in 2025 alone.
“That is more than the total built in the past ten years, which is five. This will improve the low transition from Primary 6 to JHS in that district, and ensure many more Primary 6 graduates access JHS in line with the national target (99%).”
“If this policy is sustained for four (4) years and focused on JHS infrastructure, Tatale is projected to reduce its huge JHS deficit by 60 per cent and halve its Primary 6 to JHS 1 dropout rate by 2028. Given the current rate of building 5 JHS every 10 years in Tatale Sanguli, it would have taken 48 years to achieve this.”
He therefore urged the public to lend massive support by monitoring fund use.
Source: https://opemsuo.com/author/hajara-fuseini/
