UK's ambitious South Sudan aid plan for girls' education takes a hit

Britain adopted a hard line in response to support South Sudan shutdown of oil production, but the United States presses ahead with development work and humanitarian aid

economic crisis in South Sudan has reached ambitious £ 52 million in the United Kingdom for the education of girls, one of the main priorities for program development in Britain new state of the world.

South Sudan stops oil production in January in a dispute with Sudan over fees for oil through pipelines in Sudan. Measure, the United Kingdom considers that his camp has denied South Sudan 98% of their income, which may divert Department (DFID) International Development Assistance Program 360 billion euros in aid emergency humanitarian rather than long-term development. In a parliamentary report said recently, the implementation of the DFID program already at risk before it has begun.

long-term programs for South Sudan - one of the main beneficiaries of British bilateral aid - are in limbo because no one knows how much money is left in the government coffers . Some say that the country will run out of money in August, raising the possibility that simply prints cash - with the risk of hyperinflation, as in Zimbabwe. The food prices are increasing rapidly, and long lines of cars and motorcycles outside gas stations are a common sight in Juba.

until the new budget in July, the government announced an austerity plan in February, which halved the operating costs and reduce funding for 10 countries by 10%. Education, Southern Sudan has reduced the budget to 4% of GDP by about 7% and stopped building schools. It has reduced wages through the Ministry of Education of 10% arrested teacher training and recruitment of new teachers frozen.

Consequently, DFID has suspended plans to build training centers for teachers. The plan was to build 10 centers in four states to train 2,000 teachers per year into four periods of six weeks. But all that remains on the drawing board.

This is a blow to a country that needs to double the number of teachers and 60,000 to have a chance of achieving the Millennium development of universal primary education by 2015. The report qualified teacher for children is 1:117.

girls' education "is particularly serious. Only seven women for every 10 primary school children, five girls for every 10 boys at the secondary level. Only 9% of girls who enroll in the first years complete primary school, and only 2% make it through high school.

• working with partners, DFID has big plans for the education of girls, the fight against barriers not only economic but also social and cultural factors that prevent girls from going to school. DFID will support girls and 50,000 150,000 primary school to high school. At present, there are only 30,000 girls in upper primary school, aged between eight and 11 years.

According to UNICEF, 64% (about 1 million) of children aged six to 11 are not in school. A population of over 8 million, nearly 3 million are between five and 18 years.

cultural barriers to girls' education are great. As in many African countries, women and girls in Southern Sudan are responsible for most household chores such as collecting water. The average water collection can be up to eight hours per day in areas with little water and sanitation. Even when girls go to school, can be abused by teachers. Last year, in the town of Rumbek, Lakes State, protests erupted after some teachers were arrested for abusing young girls. The state has declined and released teachers on strike after their colleagues.

And when fees must be paid to the school - and parents must decide to pay for their son or daughters to participate - boys outweigh
But while the UK pulling their educational plans, the United States decided to go ahead with its construction of training institutes for teachers. This reflects an interesting division in the center of the current economic crisis.

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