Field visit to Terai

Kristine just came back from a visit with colleagues from Norad and the Formative Research Project to two districts in the southern part of Nepal - Terai, which borders to India (Rupandehi and Kapilvastu). We visted schools and early childhood education centres and talked to the district education offices. Nepal has made great progress in increasing the number of children who go to school, but there are still many challenges of equity and quality. It was interesting to see what the situation in the lowland is like compared to schools in the hills and Kathmandu that I have seen before. I have yet to visit the really remote mountain areas where a big problem remains of enrolling all the children of school going age. For this you need to include days of walking to reach the schools.