About COPE
Strategies
The COPE programme seeks to promote effective community participation
in order to create a greater sense of ownership, and hence responsibility,
within people towards their children’s education. It builds
upon an already established base of community organisations, fostered
by other UNDP-assisted programmes such as the Participatory District
Development Programme (PDDP), Local Governance Programme (LGP),
Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP), Sustainable Community
Development Programme (SCDP) and Micro-Enterprises Development
Programme (MEDEP), as well as by other community-based development
projects.
The programme, therefore, leads to greater decentralisation at
the local government level and to greater involvement of the communities
in building a quality primary education system that is accessed
and managed by the people themselves.
In order to achieve the objectives of COPE - II, following key
strategies have been devised:
