By: Caleb Agyekum Aidoo
The Executive Director of the Complementary Education Agency, CEA, Francis Asumadu, has indicated that the one percent Budget allocated to Complementary Basic Education is insufficient and suggested the amount be increased to five percent.
He made the suggestion at a three-day stakeholder Consultative workshop in Koforidua the Eastern Regional capital, aimed at developing three documents which are, the CEA Legislative Instrument, L.I, Complementary Education Policy and Resource Mobilization Strategy, RMS, to enhance the work of the CEA. It was supported by the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, FCOD.
Mr Asumadu disclosed that Complementary Education has come to replace non-Formal Education by an Act of parliament 2020, Act 1055. The Non-Formal Education Mr. Asumadu said was essentially for National Functionally Literacy which sought to educate non-literates and provide opportunities for them to read and write with an emphasis on adults but added that the L.I when formulated, will include children who are out of school and find it difficult to achieve formal education.
Mr. Asumadu noted that broadening the scope of Complementary Education will also help improve budgetary allocation to the agency since it receives the least allocation of funds under the Ministry of Education.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Kwame Acheampong, entreated the Complementary Education Agency, CEA, and the Stakeholders to streamline the discussion for the formulation of the L.I comprehensively since the documents which will be drafted at the workshop will be used nationally.
He further urged the stakeholders to provide deep insight and make dispassionate and valuable contributions to the document to make it a formidable one.
Participants include representatives of Civil Society Organizations, CSOs, Ghana Education Service, GES, National Development Plan Commission and the Complementary Education Agency Secretariat among others.
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