Dummy Text.Component one will improve the quality of teaching and assessment of reading by supporting improvements to pre-service education, providing a model for teachers’ continuous professional development for in-service teachers, and making supplemental instructional materials more widely available to primary school teachers (grades 1-5).  Throughout this component, the Pakistan Reading Project will support efforts of the Government of Pakistan in each province/region to achieve these goals. The project will also focus its efforts towards building the capacity of provincial and district government stakeholders to ensure a sustainable improvement in the quality of reading instruction in Pakistan.

The second component of the Pakistan Reading Project will promote the adaptation and implementation of policies that promote quality teaching, especially in regards to teaching and assessment of reading, and will ensure the sustainability of the Pakistan Reading Project through policy changes. In support of these tasks, the project will continue working with the national and provincial level steering or advisory committees formed under the USAID Teacher Education Project.  The terms of reference and membership of these committees will be expanded to include key decision-makers from primary education secretariats and directorates to ensure a smooth transition from the USAID Teacher Education Project.

The overall objective of component 2 is to promote the adaptation and implementation of policies that promote quality teaching, especially in regards to teaching and assessment of reading, and to promote the sustainability of the Pakistan Reading Project through policy changes.

Component three will support civil society to re-establish a national culture of reading that once existed in Pakistan.  This will be done through a small grants program, which will include complementary reading program grants, research and learning grants and community-managed grants.  Furthermore, the Pakistan Reading Project will also launch several broad-based cross-platform print and electronic campaigns to augment the above-mentioned interventions and efforts.

Throughout the next five years, the Pakistan Reading Project will integrate gender equality in all its initiative through planned gender specific actions, indicators and sensitization.

The Pakistan Reading Project will improve reading and assessment of 94,000 teachers in 38,000 public and private schools. As a result, towards the end of the project, it is anticipated that 2.5 million children will be able to read at a level commensurate with standards at their grade level.