U.S. provides GHS2.8m to aid licensing, monitoring and evaluation of schools

The United States Government through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing GHS 2.8 million
(USD225,000) to develop and operationalise the School Licensing and Inspection Management System (SLIMS) database.

The support includes the purchase of 100 tablets for the National Schools Inspectorate Authority (NaSIA) to digitally collect school inspection data.

This is to help streamline the licensing, monitoring, and evaluation for all schools across Ghana by putting all data on a single platform.
Kimberly Rosen, USAID-Ghana Mission Director, said the support was to aid efforts to improve education quality and accountability in schools.

Rosen said they had over the past seven months launched three education initiatives to make education accessible to all, strengthen sector accountability, and promote public-private partnership.

The first initiative, the Strengthening Accountability in Ghana’s Education System (SAGES) government-to government (G2G) agreement, she said aimed to institutionalised and create an enabling environment for education accountability at all levels.