A mostly top-down planning and delivery, particularly for the formal education projects, together with a lack of coordination across components, led to unwieldiness and lack of focus when the projects and project activities reached the grassroots level.
The project became part of the on-going non-formal education project assisted by UNICEF.
The non-formal education project has helped hundreds of young people gain essential knowledge and skills.
It also supports non-formal education projects for adolescents, particularly girls, who have dropped out of school.
It may bias project work towards those with formal education, while the worldview of a highly educated project staff may privilege locals with similar values.
Education UNICEF's Education programme in Somalia is comprised of two projects, one for primary formal education and the other for primary alternative education.
Education was classified as: no formal education or one or more years of formal education.
Harris Town was selected for the Japanese-funded project based on the lack of a formal education facility, as well as the condition of the previous temporary structure and demographics and geography of the surrounding area.
Through this early childhood education project, young children interact and develop before they start formal primary school education.
Nitin Sawhney, the musicians and Ambassdor for the project, said: "Children need to challenge their imaginations and a formal education in the arts instils children with confidence and an ability to learn through intuition as well as intellect.
Today, during a trip with the UNICEF within the The Future Starts at School project, I was thinking that the lives of various children in their relationship with formal education were like the egg in the race above.
