This Baseline Study of the BOAT School Project was conducted primarily to serve as benchmark from which later post project assessment will be compared against. The Baseline is composed of 3 sub-studies namely 1) Survey of Parents / Learners 2) Focus Group Discussion of Key Informants and 3) Nutrition Baseline using Age vs. Weight metric. The Background of the Study articulated the objectives of the Survey, FGD and Nutrition sections.

It must be noted that IRDT designed this Baseline referencing the Child Fund Terms of Reference. However IRDT had to revise the ToR since many of the data needed are not possible to gather given the lack of data from the BARMM DepEd such as disaggregated data that are specific on Bajau leaner-students.

The Survey is complemented by the FGD which provided the substantive data which are otherwise not captured by statistics-driven Survey. The FGD gave valuable insights coming from the various education stakeholders in Siasi and Pandami.