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Strategic Priority – Poverty Reduction and Human Capital
Development
Strategic Priority
Sectors
Allocation
Poverty Reduction and Human Captial
Development
Capacity
Building/Institutional
Strengthening
416.546
Community Development
671.892
Early Childhood Education
44.330
Housing and Shelter
851.734
Primary Education
606.798
Secondary Education
415.145
Skills Development
112.140
Social Development
121.027
Special Education
31.057
Tertiary Education
1,223.961
Youth Development and
Entrepreneurship
22.428
TOTAL
4,517.059
Early Childhood Education
143.
The Ministry of Education (MOE) aims to provide for universal access to quality Early
Childhood Care and Education (ECCE). The MOE has secured a loan from the Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB) to facilitate the achievement of this goal. Support for a Seamless
Education System has as its objective to increase the efficiency of the education system by
providing equitable access to all students starting at the pre-primary level.
144.
To achieve this the MOE gave a mandate to the Education Facilities Company Limited
(EFCL) to construct fifty (50) ECCECs at an estimated cost of $394 million, in two (2) phases as
follows:-
•
Phase I – Twenty four (24) ECCE Centres to be completed by the end of fiscal
2013 at a cost of $189.12 million
•
Phase II – Twenty six (26) ECCE Centres to be completed by the end of fiscal
2014 at a cost of $204.88 million
145.
In addition to the $60 million allocated for fiscal year 2014 for the completion of Phase I
and commencement of Phase II, an additional $60 million will be made available over the 2015
to 2016 to enable the completion of Phase II.
