Vision: Expanded quality education for future

youth employment and training

Mission: Providing quality conditions for long
term development in youths
North-Eastern Africa
Revision
N.E.A.R.
Main Office Location: Somalia, Africa
N.E.A.R.’s expanded efforts are working towards a better tomorrow that follows to the next day
and to the next generation. Our work is providing youthful children, pre-teens, and young adults
with the qualifications elevate their livelihood through obtaining quality schooling.
 EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT

PROBLEM: Roughly 60% of the children in Somalia are out of school because of major issues that
have wreaked havoc on systems of development. (UN Sustainable Development). Somalia’s low
MPI can be mainly attributed to low standards of living (50%), followed by low levels of education
(32%) and dismally low access to good health (19%). (UNDP Somalia Fact Sheet).

ISSUE: From the devastations of civil conflict, Somalia faces the lack of quality education,
qualified teachers, and the scarcity of resources

CHALLENGE: Our biggest challenge is the displacement of children that haunts surrounding
communities due to agricultural defects, i.e., lack of water and livestock.

OBJECTIVE: N.E.A.R.’s objective is to build retention levels on education that is focused on

qualifying teachers. Cultivating outreach programs that produce higher number of young children
into schools with a variety of educational resources.
 CAUSE & EFFECT

• Cause: A lack of education in a poverty struck country leaves is communities

and members in a position that strains a positive outcome in several different
areas. Underdeveloped countries, like Somalia, run a higher risk of not being
able to gain employment, lead productive lives, engage in innovative research,
and even obtain literacy standards.
• Effects: Long-term neglect focusing on the need for education comes with
major ramifications. UNDP mentions in their research on Somalia that
“Decades of political instability and conflict have severely constrained
Somalia’s economy, which remains underdeveloped, fragile, and in recession
since the early 1990s. Although macroeconomic data is largely unavailable,
GDP per capita is estimated at US$ 435 —the fifth lowest in the world,5 with
the incidence of poverty estimated at 73 percent, and extreme poverty at 43
percent.” (United Nations Development Programme, 2017).
U.N. SUSTAINABILITY GOALS

Goal 1 – No Poverty: We emphasize this goal because “the majority of

people living on less than $1.90 a day live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Worldwide, the poverty rate in rural areas is 17.2 per cent—more than
three times higher than in urban areas. (United Nations Sustainable
Development).

Goal 4 – Quality Education: 617 million youths worldwide lack basic

mathematics and literacy skills which is why we will start here (Somalia),
where we can create change in the communities that are lacking in
educational standards, quality, and quantity. (United Nations
Sustainable Development)
INTEGRATION

N.E.A.R.’s operational process requires these two sustainable

development goals to work linear with each other to reach a more
effective and positive outcome for the communities in Somalia.
Quality education can be met through donations, transferring books
and educational supplies; employ and coach teachers’ better ways to
aid in retaining information that is provided.
But there needs to be a focus on how these children and teachers will
get to the schools. Roads, development, job creation is all under the
umbrella of poverty that is hovering over Somalia. These two goals
will work together to provide security in the developmental process.
 LOGISTICAL FRAMEWORK
  Project Summary
Goal To develop higher standard schooling with
quality teachers and exceptional teaching
supplies
Outcomes Completing developmental infrastructures
and agriculture around schooling
communities
Implemented educational standards that
require quality information dealt to
students focusing on retention
Outputs Providing quality teaching supplies i.e.,
Textbooks, notebooks, pencils, etc. in
underdeveloped communities
job opportunity for building infrastructure
around surrounding school areas
Activities Labor for development with program
initiation for job creation
Teaching programs that higher skills for
retention of information
Indicator
In 2021, increase of students attending
school is higher by 20%
In 2021, increase in developmental job
opportunity
In 2021, increase from 2017 average on
educational levels in youth
An increase in quality school supplies
(untorn textbooks, etc.)
Increase in job opportunities for young
adults/adults for developmental
projects
Creating teacher’s standard program
aiming at elevating standards
Creating on-site project training for
development
Means of verification
Statistical records on number of children
present in all the classrooms
Statistical records on development in
communities surrounded by school
centers
Records on grade levels that are
surpassed from K12
Weekly inspection on donations of
supplies to be given out
Records following the number of jobs
obtained in the year 2021
Data analytics team and partnership with
governmental bodies will track statistical
records weekly for the first 3-6 months
and move to a monthly track in phase 2
Assumptions
Governmental bodies will continue with
long-term standards on school development
and educational levels of youths
Governmental body will provide
sustainability in the increased efforts to
maintain and continuously increase
developmental projects that surround
schooling centers
These efforts will also be included towards
maintaining and developing teaching styles
that fit year after year
Government partnerships will continue to
allocate supplies for schools to have access
to through donations, as well as maintaining
learning programs for specific job
requirements
N.E.A.R.’s accomplishments will be valued
highly from the governmental bodies and
communities to work furthermore in
underdeveloped countries around the world.
REFERENCES

• Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere – United Nations Sustainable
Development. (n.d.). Retrieved December 01, 2020, from
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/
• Education – United Nations Sustainable Development. (n.d.). Retrieved December 01,
2020, from https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/education/
• Education: Somalia. (2020, March 06). Retrieved December 01, 2020, from
https://www.usaid.gov/somalia/education
• United Nations Development Programme. Business Case Assessment for Accelerating
Development Investments in Famine Response and Prevention 2017. Retrieved from
file:///Users/rickyreese/Downloads/UNDP_FamineStudy_Somalia_2017.pdf
• United Nations Development Programme. Somalia Human Development Report 2012
Empowering Youth for Peace and Development. Retrieved from
file:///Users/rickyreese/Downloads/HDR-Somalia-Factsheet-2012-E.pdf