EES Government Grateful To Capitation Grant Donors Eastern Equatoria State Government has recognized and expressed gratitude to donors across the globe for supporting South Sudan in funding schools and boosting enrollment of girls through capitation grants. 25 July 2015
By Peter Lokale Nakimangole TORIT, 24 July 2015 [Gurtong] -- The Education Minister of Eastern Equatoria State, Hon. Paska Hifita Oduho, has acknowledged key donors notably the British government which provides part of the Girls’ Education South Sudan programme as part of the grants in the country. She said that, because of the proper utilization of the funds, her State has noted great improvement and achievement both in enrollment and retention of the school-going children. She, however, clarified that part of the grants are being financed through the country's national budget allocation. Apart from seeking to eliminate registration fees at schools, in line with the constitution, which guarantees free primary education, Minister Hifita told Gurtong that beneficiary Schools may use the grants for a number of profitable purposes including running costs, facilities' improvements, among others. In June this year, the South Sudanese National Education Ministry announced that it released South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) 10 Million capitation grants for 729 Schools countrywide. Warrap State, being with the highest number of schools in the country received SSP 2.7M capitation grants for 217 Schools. Central and Eastern Equatoria States became the second and third respectively as they received SSP 2.2M and SSP 1.9M capitation grants for 203 and 140 schools in that order. Western Equatoria and Lakes States respectively received SSP 1.1 million and SSP 1million capitation grants for 123 and 84 schools while Northern Bhar El Ghazal and Jongolei States fell at the bottom of this year's released list as both got SSP 722,000 and SSP 163,000 capitation grants to cater for 56 and 8 schools respectively. Due to the ongoing conflict, the three States of Unity, Upper Nile and Jonglei, have been left out by the programme this year. Posted in: Home <http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ctl/CategoryView/mid/519/categoryId/1/Home.aspx> -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14orFHKQGi2NLPzSDgPXtuOfE_VeeU9ZsXcBwke-H%2B_Es5w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
