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<p>The Department for International Development (DFID)'s AAWAZ II Accountability,
Inclusion and Reducing Modern Slavery Programme works with communities in Pakistan
to promote rights of children, women, youth and religious minorities, protect them
from exploitation, prevent discrimination and intolerance. This £39.5m programme,
due to run from 2018 to 2024, will build on AAWAZ I. It will also build capacity of
targeted government institutions.</p><p>Since 2008, responsibility to develop curriculum
and textbooks has been devolved to provinces in Pakistan (with the Federal Government
having some oversight but very little role in implementation). DFID has assisted the
provincial governments in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to revise specific textbooks
to align them with the 2006 national curriculum, which is a substantial improvement
in terms of inclusion and tolerance from the previous curriculum. DFID technical assistance
provided to both provincial governments is increasing the capability and capacity
of the Curriculum and Textbook Boards to review textbooks, including on the systems
and standards necessary to identify and remove discriminatory content. We are also
supporting education for children from minority communities and funding training for
100,000 teachers on inclusion.</p>
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