2013 Moving Quality Forward Education Goal: Improving Education - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

EDUCATION PROGRAM 2013 Moving Quality Forward

Education Goal:  Improving Education for All (EFA) in Rwandan Communities

Education Objectives:  CSO partners empowered for effective and sustainable service delivery.  Contribute to improving quality primary Education.  Children with special educational needs and primary school drop outs facilitated to access Education.  Access to functional adult literacy facilitated.  Improved access to life skills for vulnerable children and youths.

SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM Goal: To improve social-economic well being of orphans & vulnerable children in Rwanda

SPONSORSHIP  1,011 OVCs supported in primary and secondary education.  200 students completed high school  Some are at University or employed.

YOUTH FOR UNITY – Funded by ADRA Denmark in Muhanga & Kamonyi Districts Youth in Rwanda are active players in the economic development of their local communities and are dynamic participants in the on going reconciliation processes.

Youth for Unity activities  Builds the capacity of 1317 youths in profitable farming, entrepreneurship/IGAs, banana pruning and multiplication, mushroom growing, conflict identification prevention and management (CIPM), beekeeping and OAT camps conducted  Produce audio visual & training materials.  Produce and air radio programs.  Facilitate Educational visits.

ACTION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE PROJECT Development objective: A strengthened vibrant, locally rooted civil society in Rwanda which can be a dynamic actor in social, political and economical development processes in areas of formal and non- formal education …

Immediate objective:  Community based groups (CBGs) engaged in education have improved ability to represent and express group interest and have strengthened interaction with state and private market actors

Action for Social Change brief  Strengthening the capacity of civil societies in Karongi, Nyamasheke and Nyagatare, ensuring their active role in planning and implementation of education, as well as bring social change and poverty reduction to the involved communities. ADRA Rwanda is creating a platform and entry point for CBGs and CSOs to become actors in the civil society arena upon which a strong civil society can be built.

Education support for refugee children in partnership with UNHCR  Objective is protection pending solutions  Integrate refugee children in local schools  Provide technical coordination for the refugee children  Supervise and monitor educational progress of camps  Coordinate with partners on educational support

Intervention areas  Supporting 20,000 refugee children to access primary and secondary education in 4 camps.  Provision of education materials  psychosocial support  School feeding program in Nyabiheke camp

Inclusive Education In partnership with UNICEF

Intervention  Strengthening the capacity of TTCs to support inclusive education  Training tutors as ToTs  Training teachers in inclusive education methodology  Facilitated educational visit to Uganda.  Innovation fund in 4 districts (Rusizi/Nyamasheke/Karongi & Rutsiro) in partnership with Handicap.

RWANDA EASTERN PROVINCE WOMEN LITERACY (REPWL) PROJECT Funded by DFID

Impact  Increased adult literacy levels through equitable access to appropriate learning and life skills programs by 2015  Women in Eastern Province of Rwanda have improved Functional Adult Literacy

Intervention areas  Facilitate a consensus on a National FAL Policy implementation framework & curriculum to be adopted by Government  Establishment of a national FAL network  The capacity of 7 CSOs & state actors enhanced to manage & implement FAL programs  The capacity of 7 CSOs is increased to advocate for women rights to Education

MINEDUC and partners in adult literacy The National Forum Coordination Committee of functional adult literacy chaired by Ministry of Education in a quarterly meeting at Hotel la Palise - Kigali

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