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GuineaAGSP/Guinea At a Glance:
AGSP local partners in Guinea are Club des Amis du Monde (CAM, in Kindia and Labé), Association pour la Promotion des Filles en Guinée (APROFIG, in Kankan), Association Sauvons les Enfants Déshérités (ASED, in Faranah and Conakry), Association Guinéenne pour l'Environnement et le Dévéloppement (ADEG, in Mamou), Zalikwélé Animateurs Communautaires (ZALI–AC, in N'Zérékoré), and Volontaires Guinéens pour le Dévéloppement (VGD, in Boké). The scholarships are comprised of school supplies, books, uniforms, a backpack, a hurricane lamp, soap and shoes. The scholars are selected through a transparent process that involves the Ministry of Education, school administrators, parents' association members, teachers, and representatives from organizations working with girls' education in Guinea. The AGSP team in Guinea developed a mentoring orientation guide for the NGO partners. The guide addresses orientations for mentors and school club committees and includes information on roles and responsibilities, HIV/AIDS and hygiene, problems associated with girls' access to education, solutions to these challenges and how to organize career days and other activities for the girls. There are 528 mentors working on AGSP in Guinea. Basic Information
Program OverviewIn Year 1, the AGSP in Guinea provided 6,000 scholarships to girls in primary school in Boké, Mamou, Labé, Faranah, Kankan and N'Zérékoré. The program was funded by USAID/Guinea and managed through World Education's PACEEQ program. In October 2005, the AGSP was integrated into the Year 2 regional program and will from then on be funded by USAID/Washington for the remainder of the contract. While the program is managed by World Education's office in Boston, in–country program implementation is overseen by a team of World Education AGSP staff who provide support and oversight to eight NGO partners. In Year 2, the AGSP reached 7,500 girls. The World Education team in Guinea oversees the procurement of scholarship items worth $600,000 while the NGO partners are responsible for scholar selection, scholarship distribution and mentoring and community involvement activities. In Year 3, the program implementation model is the same as it was in Year 2: funded by USAID/Washington as part of the Region 1 contract. In Year 4, AGSP Guinea has distributed 7,750 scholarships to girls and 1,562 to boys. There are over 528 mentors working on AGSP in Guinea. The mentors are selected by the federated parents' associations, the alliances, the management committees and school administrators with support from NGO trainers. There are several types of mentors in Guinea:
In addition, preparatory activities for Year 4 have been underway since February. Because of the volume of scholarships in Guinea, as well as the challenges to scholarship procurement, the World Education team in Guinea began the procurement process in February. The Team is expecting to hear soon whether they should start making 5th year procurements preparations. Exemplary PracticesAPROFIG Practice: Former AGSP Scholars are trained as MentorsScholars promoted beyond AGSP were trained as tutors and mentors. This strategy helps girls understand each other better and also builds cooperation and trust among scholars.
APROFIG Practice: Monitoring and Liaison CommitteesThe NGO organized "focal committees" in order to oversee program activities and liaise between the NGO's technical team, the executive team and other external and internal education stakeholders (school administration, Association of Parents and Friends of the School, local alliances, and national coordination of AGSP).
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Ambassabors' Girls' Scholarship Program (AGSP) is funded by the U.S.
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