Africa-Press – Angola. The Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa, guides, Thursday, the 1st Ordinary Session of the Multisectoral Commission for the Implementation of the Project of Empowerment of Girls and Learning for All (PAT II).
The project aims to contribute to the sustainable improvement of the quality of education and teaching in Angola, to strengthen the education system, with innovative solutions for children, young people and adults, always with a particular eye and attention for girls and adolescents.
Budgeted at US$250 million for the next five years, PAT II includes concrete actions that will result in the empowerment of girls and adolescents.
From the work program, highlights include, among other matters, the presentation of the Report on the Project for the Empowerment of Girls Learning for All – PAT II, the PAT II Action Plan for 2023, the Mapping of Public Schools in Angola and the Proposal for the creation of a Technical Group of the Multisectoral Commission.
The commission, recently created by Presidential Order, is responsible, among other duties, for enforcing the general strategic orientation of PAT II, proposing the preparation of technical studies, reports and balance sheets on the effectiveness of PAT II and proceeding with the monitoring and scrupulous compliance with the three structural components of PAT II, - namely empowering Angolan girls, reducing learning poverty in Angola and management.
Among the commission’s objectives, there is also the monitoring and evaluation of the project, as well as developing tasks aimed at creating technical, material and human conditions for boosting and guaranteeing the implementation of PAT II.
The commission coordinated by the Vice-President of the Republic has the minister of Education as assistant coordinator and includes the ministers of Finance, Health, Environment, Youth and Sports, Social Action, Family and Women’s Promotion, and Public Administration, Labor and Social Security . The Ministers of Territorial Administration and of Energy and Water, among other personalities.
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