3.3 Project impacts on the quality of education Since neither implementing partner organizations nor Project woredas or schools kept systematic track of first generation students of the Kinderpostzegels Project assisted NFBE Centers and CLFZ schools, it may not be possible to get a complete picture of what happened to the first generation students of the project. Though they provided general information, WEOs and schools were not able to provide disaggregated quantitative data about first generation students within the timeframe of this impact evaluation. The Este and Siraro WEOs estimated that almost all the first generation students have continued their education while some schools in SNNPR put the proportion of first generation students that continued their education to this day to 90 percent. The general indications are that most students have continued their education. The evaluation team wherever it went has also been able to get information that is sufficient to make such conclusions as presented in the sub-sections below. 3.3.1. Continuation of learning by the children after the project Though not able to provide numbers, Este Woreda WEO head and his expert stated that they have information that most of the students continuing their education in upper primary and secondary schools nearest to their former schools. School principals in the woreda also have the same view. One of them Getachew Amlaku of Afer Gebeya Primary school cited some examples saying the following: The first generation students now reached grade 8 learning in Yekra, Sholekt and Tsion schools. We follow on them to get information. The schools give us feedback every month on their ranks on semester standings. We often get positive feedback about their academic performance. Especially Yekra school sends regular feedback per semester. Fano Gobena and Mohamed Demboba, Siraro Custer supervisors of Siraro WEO also expressed the same view saying that, although they did not have full statistical information, they have confirmed that most of the children in both NFBE and CLFZ projects have continued their education and are in upper primary and secondary level schools. The two wordas supervisors further testified that dropout and repetition rates among first generation students who have continued their education are very little. 32
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