The study determined to find out major challenges face the Program, an interview conducted in the sampled schools revealed that, the program was top down structure.
It was noted most of parents/guardians were not involved in PEDP although they were forced to pay money to construct classrooms and pit latrines to a certain level. However respondents mentioned the major challenges as it is indicated in Table 4.8.
Table 4.8: Frequency Response of Challenges
Responses Frequencies Percentage (%)
Overcrowded classrooms 140 61
Infrastructures are under standard 45 20
Un equal allocation of money 26 11
Source Field data 2015
Learning from Table 4:18 above, It is clear that PEDP ha lead number of pupils to be overcrowded in classrooms as it revealed by 61% of the respondents. An increase of the number of pupils in single classroom is geared by increase of the number of enrollments is class one. This finding goes hand to hand with the literature review of the study.
Additionally, 20% of the respondents indicated that most of the classrooms were built under standards. This was also observed in two schools on study. Poor involvement of parents/ guardian and poor supervision of head teachers and school committee members could be reasons for poor standards of the school infrastructure.
CHAPTER FIVE 5.0 DISCUSSION
This chapter gives a discussion of the finding of the data collected from the field and gives a summary of the major findings.
5.1 Pupils Enrolment
The data presented in Table 4.3 shows that there was an increase in number of pupils registered in the primary schools under study; the increased enrolment forced some of the school to be divided into two, to give a room for expansion to accommodate the number of pupils registered. Ngarenaro primary school was divided to get the second primary school called Mwangaza, Burka divided to get Azimio and Sombetini divided to Osunyai primary school. Apart from that a new school was constructed called Elerai, from the area of study; data show that there was a continuous increase in number of pupils enrolled. At Levolosi primary school the number of enrolment increased from 104 in 2003 to 122 in 2007. At Mwangaza primary school enrolment increased from 82 pupils in 2003 to 101 pupils in 2007 there was also an enrolment increase at Ngarenaro Primary school from 150 pupils in 203 to 204 pupils in 2004.
Burka primary school increased enrolment from 130 pupils in 2003 to 139 in 2007, Elerai primary school increased the number of pupils enrolled from 110 in 2003 to 138 in 2007, Sombetini increased enrolment from 208 in 2003 to 220 pupils in 2007, and Osunyai increased enrolment from 206 pupils in 2003 to 238 pupils in 2007.
Enrolment of girls also shows that currently there are an equal number of pupils in primary schools as Table.4.4 depict that there is 51.6% of girls students present in primary and 48.4% are boys.
5.2 Improved Facilities
The data from Table 4.1 show that in every school where the study was conducted show that there is a good number of classrooms constructed under PEDP program the data show that 73 new classrooms out 159 classrooms present in the 8 primary school under study where constructed through PEDP program, which is 46%, this show that, by taking the class to pupils ratio of 1:45, a total number of 3285 pupils, could have been without classrooms if the PEDP program could have not come, although there are still a shortage of 132 classrooms which carries 45% of the total required classrooms but PEDP has tried to reduce the gap.
5.3 Provisions of Desks
Desks are very important furniture‟s for students to sit on. Figure4.1 shows that there has been an increase in the number of desks in primary school under study.
During the implementation of PEDP, the data show that before PEDP there were 1798 desks in schools where the study was conducted and after PEDP the number shoot to 3411, there was an increase of 1613 desks which is 47% although there is still a shortage of 461 desks in these 8 schools equivalent to 14%. Burka primary school, Elerai primary school and Sombetini have no shortage currently. A big shortage was observed at Osunyai primary school reaching to 223.
5.4 Teachers
Basing on the data provided on table 4.5 it has been observed that most of the primary school under study has a big number of extra teachers. This has been observed after taking the teacher – student‟s ratio of 1:45. Levolosi has an extra number of 16 teachers Mwangaza 5 teachers, Ngarenaro 8 teachers Burka 15 teachers, Azimio 10 teachers and Elerai has 13 extra teachers. While Sombetini primary school has a shortage 8 teachers and Osunyai primary school has a shortage of 14 teachers. The schools under study show that there are 339 teachers present teaching various subjects, of which 315 equivalent to 93% are female and 24 equivalent to 7% are males. This show that there are a big number of female teachers concentrated in these schools, and the reason were not known.
Table 4.6 shows that all the primary schools where data were collected have teachers with the required qualification to teach at primary level, 302 teachers in these primary schools holds a certificate of Education, which is 89%, 22 holds a diploma in education equivalent to 6:5% and 15 teachers a first degree holder, taking 4:5%.