EFE Activities in East Gonja District.
Ibis interventions under the EFE programme in the East Gonja District has mainly been to support the gaps in education delivery to enable the Ghana Education Service (GES) perform it's designated responsibilities. The programme has managed to build an interface between the Bimbilla Teacher Training College (the nearest teacher training college to the East Gonja district) and the Ghana Education Service to strengthen in-service training, recruitment of volunteer teachers and supervision skills of teachers and GES officers.
 
In-service training for GES Officers and Head teachers
The EFE programme in collaboration with Bimbilla Training College and the GES provided an in-service training programme for 20 education officers, 12 of whom were circuit supervisors of education performance. They were trained in modern methods of clinical supervision, a clear departure from the old trend of visits to schools to check attendance, enrolment etc. Under the current clinical supervision, the supervisors now support head teachers and teachers in harmonized lesson planning, assist them with modern child-centred pedagogy etc.

 133 head teachers were also given in-service training in harmonized lesson preparations in the Sciences, Mathematics and English Language. They also received lessons in school administration and management. Head teachers after the training were tasked to organize periodic but regular school-based in-service training for their teachers.

The arm of GES responsible for supervision was tasked to track the utilization of the new skills acquired from the two training programmes to ensure sustainability and further transfer of skills. The Assistant District Director for Education in charge of supervision was to oversee the tracking process and support both circuit supervisors and head teachers to perform accordingly.
 
Volunteer teachers
Intervening to augment teacher supply is probably the greatest Ibis activity yet in the East Gonja District . The East Gonja District Assembly with the support of Ibis recruited 60 volunteer teachers to augment the 700 deficit in teacher supply in the district. These volunteers were recruited from the Senior Secondary School graduates unable to transcend that level to the tertiary level. Besides supporting teacher supply, the essence of the recruitment was to make these graduates useful to their communities.
The intervention of the District Assembly and Ibis was also to ease the pressure on parents and the community to retain such volunteer teachers. The support guaranteed a monthly allowance for the volunteers.

 Working with DEFATS
The District Education for All Team (DEFAT) is a sector-wide civil society group set up by the Northern Network for Education Development (NNED) to advocate for the education for all goals at the district level.

In addition to the direct partnership between EfE and NNED at the national level, the EfE has been working closely with the district level civil society body to identify challenges in education delivery in the district and lobbying and advocating interventions by GES and the District Assembly.

Some of the work with DEFAT includes tracking the utilization of capitation grants to basic schools following government pledge to absorb all fees at the basic level of education in Ghana The team has also been engaged in analyzing the results of the Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) and identifying dark spots in the results for intervention.