Children receiving quality education will have better opportunities to decent jobs and will participate actively in their society. Mali is ranked one of the lowest quality education systems in the world. Despite significant progress in terms of access toprimary education, 800.000 children are not in school. Children completing the school cycle do so without acquiring the basic reading, or thespecialized skills to enter the workforce or continue their education. The poor learning outcomes are mainly a result of the shortage of professionally trained teachers with relevant skills, knowledge and competences. Oxfam and Education International with the help of Comic Relief have joined forces to improve the quality of the education system. Building on lessonslearned from an earlier project that focused on the professional competences and acceptance in public system of primary community school teachers, this projectwill focus on improving student learning at lower secondary education. Factors to improve theeducation received include: Quality teachers with improved teaching skills and knowledge, particularly on girls education and technical and life skills; Consensus-based teacher competence profile that informs teacher training and further professional development; Teachers that receive quality pre- andin-service training through improved training modules. The project will take the mobile telephone development as an opportunity to innovate in-service teacher training and will develop some modules to be usedon SD cards. Development of new modules for teacher training and where possible digital modules by the government in partnership with teacher training institutes, civil society and teachers; Being in the public system will also give informal teachers access to in-service training and improved salary.