Productive Partnerships for Teaching Quality: Quality Improvement, School-Community Practice and Teacher Education. Investigate 'sites of interest' and 'lighthouse sites' in each of the six districts under study develop and implement appropriate 'capacity-building' programs for teacher preparation and teacher professional development, and make recommendations to the Director-General for further enhancing distance and rural education

The operational definitions used in the study are:

1. "provincial rural cities" - those containing at least 1000 young childrens, ages 6 to 14 years.

2. "provincial rural areas" - those areas within a 100 km radius of the five provincial rural cities located     from dristric of gabilley, borama, baki , lugha-ya and zeila

3. "rural education" - includes schools in isolated communities and small towns, distance education and     boarding schools

4. "remote rural areas" - all locations outside the 75 km zone around provincial cities

5. "outlier site" - those schools standing apart from the majority.