Steering Committee for Ehsaas’ Education CCTS Endorses Scale-Up of Stipends for Secondary Education

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Prime Minister’s Special Assistant on Social Protection and Poverty Alleviation Dr. Sania Nishtar on Thursday chaired the meeting of the Ehsaas Steering Committee for the Ehsaas education conditional cash transfer programme.

The Ehsaas Steering Committee was briefed on the upscaling of the primary education conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme, Waseela-e-Taleem Digital to the secondary level.

The programme is all set to be rolled out across all districts of the Country in the first quarter of the next financial year.

In the meeting, all four provinces, Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) came to the table to endorse the scale-up of Ehsaas stipends for secondary education.

It was fully ratified that secondary education CCT, when launched under the umbrella of Ehsaas will reduce disparities in secondary schooling opportunities by raising school attendance, enrollment, and the school progression among out of school children particularly girls.

“Coming under the umbrella of Ehsaas, the secondary education CCT will help poorest families to overcome financial difficulties to access secondary education. The secondary level CCT programme is being structured in line with Ehsaas Stipends policy which allows higher stipend amount for girls as compared to boys”, remarked Dr. Nishtar.

The opportunity costs of schooling continue to rise with age and are much higher after 10 years of age. In rural areas declining trend increases after grade 5 and in urban areas dropout rises after grade 10 but with different reasons.

The part of Waseela e Taleem Digital, the secondary education stipends will encourage parents to send their daughters to secondary schools and support them to achieve higher education.

The programme will bring deserving secondary school children into its fold from across all 154 districts of Pakistan.”

The Steering Committee for Ehsaas education CCT comprises of members from Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division, Ministry of Education and Professional Training, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and Higher Education Departments from provinces including AJK and GB who were joined by Waseela-e-Taleem Digital operations team.

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