E/C.12/DJI/CO/1-2 especially in nomadic communities and isolated or remote rural areas, and to improve the working conditions of teachers assigned to these areas. The Committee calls on the State party to provide information in its next periodic report on the implementation of the mobile schools pilot programme. 35. The Committee is concerned both by school dropouts and by the high academic failure rate in the State party resulting from the poor quality of public education (art. 13). The Committee encourages the State party to address the problems of poor quality public education, school dropouts and academic failure, particularly by: (a) developing an educational programme and system that is tailored to the specific situation in the country; (b) promoting inclusive education, including by providing school supplies for children from the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups; (c) investing in teacher training and enhancing the status of the teaching profession; (d) providing training at the local level for children who have dropped out of school; and (e) ensuring that school canteens and water and sanitation facilities are in good working order in all public schools. 36. The Committee is concerned about the fact that drought has driven some nomadic communities to abandon their way of life based on seasonal migration and the fact that the State party is implementing a policy of settling nomadic populations in order to prevent a rural exodus. The Committee also regrets that the State party does not specifically recognize the rights of tribal peoples as such, despite the coexistence of several tribes in its territory (arts. 15 and 11). While aware of the climatic conditions and other difficulties facing the State party, the Committee encourages the State party to take the necessary measures to enable nomadic populations to preserve their traditional way of life. The Committee also recommends that the State party study the issue of self-identification of tribal populations and the recognition of their rights, and that it ratify the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Populations Convention, 1989 (No. 169). The Committee refers the State party to its general comment No. 21 (2009) on the right of everyone to take part in cultural life. 37. The Committee regrets that the Somali and Afar languages have no legal status in the State party and that they have still not been incorporated in school curricula (art. 15, para. 1). The Committee recommends that the State party grant legal status to the two most widely spoken languages in its territory, Somali and Afar. The Committee encourages the State party to include teaching of those languages in its school curriculum. 38. While commending the State party’s efforts to promote solar energy, the Committee regrets that the majority of the population has yet to benefit from some of the scientific and technical advances that are required to ensure equal enjoyment of the rights provided for in the Covenant (art. 15). The Committee urges the State party to facilitate access for disadvantaged and marginalized groups to electricity, including solar energy, and to the Internet and other scientific and technological advances conducive to enhancing their enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights (art. 15, para. 1). 39. The Committee requests the State party to ensure that human rights education, including on economic, social and cultural rights, is provided at all levels, as appropriate, in public and private schools (art. 13). 40. The Committee encourages the State party to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. GE.13-49993 9