Capacity Building of District Education Officers in Educational Planning, Implementation and Community Participation

UNESCO in collaboration with the Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM) has initiated a pilot project titled “Capacity Building of District Education Officers in Educational Planning, Implementation and Community Participation”. Main objectives of the project were to enable the trainees to meet new challenges, effective planning and implementing EFA initiatives in their jurisdiction, and mobilize local communities for their active participation in educational decision making.The prime concern of the present article is to evaluate the project in terms of capacity building of the district education officers in educational planning, implementation, and community participation. The Executive District Officers (EDOs), District Education Officers (DEOs), Deputy District Education Officers (DDEOs) and Heads of the Secondary Schools within 10 sampled districts of four provinces of Pakistan constituted population for this study. 25master trainers and 80 trainees trained under this project from Punjab, Sindh and NWFP were drawn as sample. To what extent the project has been successful in the capacity building of district education officers in educational planning, implementation and community participation was the main research question of the study? Data were collected through the in person administration of questionnaires to district education officers trained under the project and the master trainers of AEPAM, Islamabad and PITEs of the country