Stories of Change

The provincial governments in Balochistan had constructed a large number of buildings, including schools and others under the Public Sector Development Program or PSDP. Most of these buildings were constructed without rationalization or need assessment, therefore most of them were left unattended. Some of the buildings amounted to a cost worth millions of dollars in value and importance of location. With the passage of time and population changes, most of these buildings required operationalization to meet the increasing demand of schools from the community. With depleting resources of the government and development agencies, utilizing these buildings has become imperative. This initiative required a bold decision of going on a complicated path of officially obtaining these buildings for revitalization into schools as they were either occupied by other departments or used for other purposes by the community or left abandoned. Various operational and administrative issues relating to these buildings haunted everyone about the lack of management on part of policy makers and education managers especially the unwise expenditure of public taxes. Read More...

Ms. Roqiza, a 24 year old girl, is a resident of a small village named Killi Sahi Amanullah Ghot Kandaro, Union Council Derakalaho Tehsil Naal. The village is 170 kilometers away from District Khuzdar

Ms. use my old textbooks and teach the children. I have no formal training to teach but I try to mimic my school teachers to impart education” says Ms. Roqiza with a sense of pride. Read More...

Given the huge number of people using smartphones and on-the-go internet, Balochistan Education Project ceased the opportunity to take full advantage of this technology by utilizing social media like Facebook and communication tools like WhatsApp to communicate with people, employees and government counterparts in an innovative way. BEP has created more than 10 different WhatsApp groups, ranging from regional teams, staff safety and security related group to a group that comprises of the highest authorities in Education including Secretary Education who is the senior-most official of the department. These groups also comprise of regional groups of the project teams working in far flung districts of the province that will otherwise take at least two days to travel from one end to the other by road. Read More...

Technology offers promising solutions for our day-to-day issues in management. Employing smart solutions can save costs, ensure transparency, increase operational efficiency, and provide telemonitoring facility with a lot many other innovative features. Balochistan Education Project is among the few organizations in Balochistan having acquired an advanced and feature-rich system to facilitate its work. It helps ensure transparency in the bidding process, real-time remote monitoring, video recording and teleconferencing with multiple parties at a time. Read More...