CASE2LEARN Project: 300,000 Teachers & Students From 9 Regions & States To Get Benefits

300,000 indigenous teachers and students from 9 regions and states will get benefits from CASE2Learn project.

The official launching of the project took place in Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday. The CASE2Learn project was initiated by the European Union with 20 million EUR as a five-year project (2019-2023). It will be implemented by the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) which has over 35 years of experience delivering education projects in Myanmar and its local implementing partner Rural Indigenous Sustainable Education (RISE).

Country Director, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (Myanmar), Claudio Sandoval said “Our agency is willing to support education problems in Myanmar because we recognize the need of supporting children in remote areas in the hard to reach areas of the country”. “ADRA works with local partners with the RISE consultation so they are going to implement the projects in the specific areas, ADRA is going to provide technical assistance, teaching and learning materials, and a lot of advisories in education so we can grant quality of education”.

The CASE2Learn project, also known as “Conflict Areas Support for Education 2 Learn” is an extension of an 11-month pilot project called CASE+. The aim of the project is to improve and expand indigenous education services by improving school quality standards and equipping indigenous teachers with basic teaching competencies to support student learning.

Head of Cooperation, EU delegation to Myanmar, Dr. Johann Hesse said “One of the sectors we are supporting is education” “We understand that to actually do that if you want to leave no child behind, you have to work as government in the areas where you work but then in the end you also have to work in those areas where difficult for government to work especially the ethnics areas here and that’s why we think it’s a good approach eventually to promote the idea of partnerships.”

The project will also focus on out of school children, youth and illiterate women by providing relevant programs for support. It will cover Mon, Chin, Kachin, Shan, Kayah and Kayin states, Tanintharyi, Bago and Sagaing regions.

Deputy Director General, Basic Education Department, Dr. Tin Maung Win said “The government is allocating more budgets year after year for quality education. The budget is to support even 9.7 million basic education students and over 450,000 teachers across the country. This kind of assistance will be a great support in our educational reforms.”

Representatives of the Ministry of Education and many other ministers and also of over 15 organizations supporting Myanmar’s education sector attended this event.