OUTPUT

OUTCOME

1. Book Production and Distribution

• 237 titles of children books were produced and distributed to 3,642 primary schools in the country.
   
• 35 titles of children books transcribed into Braille and distributed to 27 schools for visually impaired children
   
• 4 Big Books authored by teachers and pupils were produced and distributed to 100 primary schools.
   
• 5 Guidebooks on interactive and diagnostic methodologies have been produced

• Increased access to a variety of relevant reading materials to schools and improved pupils abilities to read and write
  
  
• Increased access to a variety of relevant reading materials to visually improved children.
  
  
  
• Increased access to books and improved creativity of teachers and pupils to prepare their own books
  
  
  
• Improved teaching practice, in schools
  
  
• Improved education delivery

2. Reading Programme

• 89 primary schools have established school libraries with cheap facilities for children to sit on while reading.

• Increased access to a variety of relevant reading materials
   
• Increased interest in reading among children
   
• Increased capacity and skills for teachers to manage school libraries
   
•  Improved oral communication and reading abilities to children
   
• Increased community support for school libraries
   
• Integrated reading activities into the daily lives of children and community members

3. Teacher training

• 825 female and male in-service teachers from the Eastern zone were trained in Diagnostic and interactive
  methodologies of teaching
   
• 825 female and male teachers have prepared teaching and reading materials in their schools
   
• 89 primary schools have improved their academic performance as follows:

Year    Class IV  Class VII
2002        83%          30%
2003        90%          46%
2004       94%          56.5%
2005        99%         70.6%
2006        99%         77%

• Improved skills of primary schools teachers to teach reading and other subjects.

• Improved classroom condition and improved creativity and capacity to make their own reading, learning and teaching materials
   
• Improved standard IV and VII examination results in programme schools

4. Book sector training

• 2, 625 writers were trained by CBP
  
  
• 4 workshops were organized to publishers on publishing, book designing, management and finance skills.
  
  
• 164 training sessions for illustrators and 7 courses were organized on basic skills on illustrating and designing for cover design and the use of colour separation process

• Increased skills of authors.
  
  
  
• Increased quality of book produced in terms of cover design, layout and physical appearance.
  
  
  
• Increased quality of books in terms of illustrations and increased skills to artists.