Abstract:
The main purpose of study is to assess the effectiveness of general education quality
improvement package (GEQIP) fund in bringing quality education in secondary schools
of Hariri Regional State. To achieve the above objective data were collected from five
government secondary schools in Hariri Region. The sample respondents were 5
principals,5 and vice principals selected by using purposive sampling techniques and
30 students selected by using stratified random sampling techniques, also 5 supervisors,
5 finance officers, 40 teachers and 5 PTA members selected by using availability
sampling techniques. In general, the main data gathering tools used for this study were
questionnaires, interview and document analysis. Both qualitative and quantitative data
analysis methods were employed in order to turn up at the results. The major statistical
tools employed were frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. It was found
that the GEQIP budget was sometimes implemented and has moderate contribution to
facilitate the teaching and learning process in the School without any significant
difference at 0.05 level. The findings identified the presence of Lack of assessing needs
of school community on what to do with GEQIP budget, School’s GEQIP budget
stakeholder lack of freedom to plan and implement freely and Lack of providing on
time report about GEQIP budget to stakeholder were Serious problems that Influence
GEQIP budget from Achieving Quality Education at secondary schools without any
significant difference at 0.05 level. GEQIP budget was not used to help poor students,
female students, to reduce drop out students, improve teaching methods like group
learning and failed to bring quality education. Based on the findings, the researcher
recommends the region should solve the major problems. Thus the revision or
redesigning seems to be necessary to properly implement budget offered to the school
and to achieve the intended goal to improve the general quality of education which has
negative impact for the proper Management of the allocated budget
