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The Basics:

  • Funded by: USAID

  • Prime contractor: RTI International

  • Sub-contract value: $454,591

  • SIL LEAD involvement: May 1, 2015 to March 1, 2012

  • Minority languages served: Rana Tharu, Awadhi, and Maithili

  • Materials produced: Grade 1 Student Books and Teacher’s Guides for Rana Tharu

Thesis of Project: The two overriding goals of Nepal EGRP are:

  1. Reading skills improved: Public primary school students in grades 1–3 in the 16 target districts with improved reading skills.

  2. Government of Nepal (GON) services strengthened: The Contractor will have supported the Government of Nepal through Phase I of the Nepal EGRP and completed the design and demonstration of a national model that the Government of Nepal can then implement nationwide within its budget.

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SIL LEAD Overall Contribution to Project: 

  • To provide technical assistance to the development of mother tongue MT materials in Tharu, Maithili and Awadhi.

  • To support to the development of appropriate scope and sequence for Nepali as a second language oral language skills (NSL/OLS) and Nepali grade 3 curriculum.

Summary of the Project:

The two overriding goals of EGRP are as follows:

  1. Reading skills improved: Public primary school students in grades 1–3 in the 16 target districts with improved reading skills.

  2. Government of Nepal (GON) services strengthened: The Contractor will have supported the GON through Phase I of the Nepal EGRP and completed the design and demonstration of a national model that the GON can then implement nationwide within its budget.

These goals will be achieved through meeting the following three Intermediate Results (IRs):

  • Improved Early Grade Reading Instruction (IR 1)

  • Improved National and District Early Grade Reading Service Delivery (IR 2)

  • Increased Family and Community Support for Early Grade Reading (IR 3)

Based in Kathmandu and working in the following districts—Banke, Bardiya, Bhaktapur, Dang, Dadeldhura, Dhankuta, Dolpa, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Kaski, Manang, Mustang, Parsa, Rupandehi, Saptari, and Surkhet—EGRP will work with the Ministry of Education (MOE) and its Central Line Agencies (CLAs)—the Curriculum Development Center (CDC), Department of Education (DOE), Education Review Office (ERO), National Center for Educational Development (NCED), and Non-Formal Education Center (NFEC)—to develop an early grade reading (EGR) program that the GON can replicate and expand to all districts of the country in a cost-effective and sustainable manner. As such, EGRP is first and foremost a capacity-building program.

Key EGRP activities center on developing teaching and learning materials, developing teacher training manuals and delivering training, providing orientation for head teachers, conducting early grade reading assessments (EGRAs) and other ongoing formative classroom assessments, strengthening the MOE’s Education Management Information System (EMIS), strengthening District Education Offices (DEOs) to effectively manage school-based EGR activities in schools, and sensitizing and mobilizing families and communities to support EGR activities in schools and communities.