Girl Child Education in KBK Districts of Orissa

Venue: Nabarangapur
Date: February 6 th – 8 th, 2003

Theme

Need for Policy Interventions and Awareness Campaign for Expanding & Sustaining Access and Opportunities.

Participants

• Chairpersons and Members (women) of the Panchayat Samitis and the Zilla Parishads of KBK Districts
• State Government Functionaries: Educational planners and administrators, Members of Panchayati Raj, Teachers, Women & Child Development Officials; District Collectors; and Project Directors of DRDA
• Representatives of Political Parties, Professional Organizations like Lawyers, Local chambers of commerce, Community Based Organizations, Cooperatives and Media
• Co-coordinators of DPEP of the KBK Districts, Orissa
• Co-coordinators of Total Literacy Campaign, KBK Districts, Orissa

Objectives

• The socio-economic issues, accessibility to basic educational services, etc responsible for high level of illiteracy and school dropout rate among the tribal female population
• Appropriate public policy interventions, awareness campaign and community partnership to address the basic literacy and educational issues and more particularly tribal girl child education.

Project Summary