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1. Access to education for marginalized groups and those in rural and hard-to-reach locations;2. Education in crisis situations (conflict, post-conflict and disasters);
3. Information and communication technologies (ICT) for education;
4. Promote education for the world of work.
1. Access to education for marginalized groups and those in rural and hard-to-reach locations
Non-Governmental Organizations
Right-to-Education Project (RTE)
The Right to Education Project aims to promote social mobilization and legal accountability, looking to focus on the legal challenges to the right to education. A wide-reaching website holding a constitutional and rights database provide information on constitutional provisions and references from human rights laws on education, gender equality and related issues for all countries. More…
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Promoting Rights in Schools (PRS) (Link it to ActionAid brief note)
The Promoting Rights in Schools (PRS) framework puts the rights based approach of the RTE Project into practice. It is organized around 10 rights linked to measurable indicators aimed at achieving gender equality through ‘good quality education’. Each right is derived from national policy frameworks and legal instruments (e.g. the Constitution) and international human rights conventions. More…
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Transforming Education for Girls Project in Nigeria and Tanzania (TEGINT) (Link it to ActionAid brief note)
The TEGINT project, which is supported by Comic Relief, seeks to achieve a transformation in the education of girls in Tanzania and Nigeria by addressing underlying gender inequalities both in school and in the community. More…
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Stop Violence Against Girls in Schools Project (SVAGS) (Link it to ActionAid brief note)
With the support of the UK’s Big Lottery Fund, ActionAid has launched a new multi-country project called Stop Violence Against Girls in School (SVAGS). This project is being implemented simultaneously in Ghana, Kenya and Mozambique. More...
By ActionAid
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Ak’ Tenamit’s Teacher/Student Teaching Model
The Teacher/Student Teaching Model of Ak’ Tenamit is an adapted curriculum designed specifically to eliminate the critical barriers faced by rural, indigenous Guatemalans. More...
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Power Within: Learning to Lead
Power Within: Learning to Lead program (PW) launched in 2008, enables girls around the world to complete their primary education and develop leadership skills that will empower girls to work with their families, communities and countries to overcome poverty. More...
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The EFAIDS Programme combines the goal of achieving Education for All (EFA) with the need to limit the impact of HIV and AIDS on the education sector. By achieving EFA, children can be better equipped with the skills and knowledge necessary to protect themselves from HIV. Similarly teachers who are supported to live healthily are better placed to contribute to providing quality education. More...
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Brazil’s Portuguese Language Olympics: Writing the Future
Brazil’s Portuguese Language Olympics: Writing the Future program began in 2002 as a private initiative aimed at developing reading and writing skills among public school students in Brazil. More...
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Learning to read is a key to unlocking further education and career potential. And, while more children are in school today than ever before, many are not learning basic skills like reading once they get there. That’s why Save the Children has created the Literacy Boost program. More...
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One goat one child
One Goat One Child is a community based approach to give children from extremely poor families a chance to learn. It has been launched by Save the Children Somalia (SCISOM), which is implementing integrated approaches to basic education for school aged children and those who have missed out education.
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Girls’ Urgent Early Steps to Teaching Success (GUESTS)
Save the Children has developed the ‘GUESTS’ program: Girls’ Urgent Early Steps to Teaching Success. Female high school students are now enrolled in a program in which they receive teacher training courses, which promote a child-centered active learning methodology. The objective is that on completion of the GUESTS program and their high school studies they will take up teaching as a career.
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More than 20% of the Terre des Hommes development projects relate directly to
education and many more are indirectly connected to this field. One of the main
axis of the Terre des Hommes work is to bring educational opportunities to
children who are unable to attend regular school programmes. More...
By Terre des Hommes International Federation
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Values Based Life skills Education
Values Based Life skills Education is an educational tool enhancing participation, leadership and children’s well being in the world. More...
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Private Sector
Cisco has helped Teachers Without Borders (TWB) increase access to the Certificate of Teaching Mastery; convene conferences in subject-matter mastery and teaching methods, establish Community Teaching and Learning Centers, and to develop an innovative TWB Toolkit. Cisco has invested $1.5 million to support the work of Teachers Without Borders (TWB). More…
........................................................................................................................Sesame Workshop and Merck Foundation are working together on Zhima Jie, a comprehensive educational multimedia project in China. It includes a new television series, Zhima Jie’s Big Bird Looks at the World, which centers on science and discovery. The TV, which launched in December 2010, is complemented by a website, print materials, and reading corners in selected Shanghai classrooms. More...
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“Colombia habla ingles” project uses a blended methodology that combines face to face sessions with independent learning. That independent learning could be with a CD ROM or online. In both cases teachers have support from the facilitators. If it is with a CD, they receive support via email or by phone. If it is online, there is a moderator who supports them by answering their questions or assisting them specific problems they encounter during the course. The approach is innovative because it takes into account teachers´ needs, especially teachers from rural areas who until now haven’t benefited from other teacher training programs because they work and live far from the capital cities where the government usually provides teacher training programs. Pearson goes out of its way to visit rural communities, sometimes using donkeys for transport, to deliver training. More...
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The Education without borders of Pearson brings together a series of initiatives in Southern Africa, among them, the Bridge Schools, BridgeIT, Teacher Professional Development projects and the work involving the Pearson Foundation. More...
By Pearson
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Eleven years ago, COC Publisher (now Pearson Brazil) analyzed public teaching and noted that there were some huge modifications required to ensure that quality of education could be provided to every child and adolescent as a birth right. COC Publisher then developed a method of using its educational systems, or ‘Sistemas’, to transform public teaching by establishing “Núcleo de Apoio a Municipalização do Ensino” (Support Nucleus for the Muncipalization of Teaching), or NAME. Today, NAME is considered a model of educational excellence in the Brazilian market. It is available in 124 municipal districts in Brazil and reaches 193,000 students that have access to its differentiated style of education. More...
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Philips SchoolVision is a dynamic lighting system with pre-programmed light scenes that enhances the learning environment and contributes to the well-being of children and teachers. More...
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Cradle to Career Scholarship is a partnership with 2 top private schools in Rivers state, Nigeria: Jephthah Comprehensive Secondary School and The Brookstone International School. It provides access to quality education by providing complete funding to students for six years. Where they continue to perform well, it is being planned that there will be a seamless transition to SPDC’s University scholarship and eventually into the Oil and Gas school, the Shell Intensive Training Program (SITP) which prepares young graduates for employment in the sector. More...
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As part of the World Challenge, a partnership between, BBC World News, and Newsweek, one video project of 2010 was produced and screened. The project, A Class Apart in Guatemala featured Mateo Paneitz who raised funds to found the non-profit Long Way Home to create better employment and education opportunities in Comalapa, Guatemala. A school was built out of recycled waste materials, including a park, and a mixed academic and vocational school. More...
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UN system and other international organizations
School feeding contributes to the education and well-being of children. A hungry child does not grow, cannot learn as well and faces many health
risks in the future. School feeding can bring children into school and out of hunger. More...
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Capacity development for Education for All (CapEFA)
UNESCO’s CapEFA programme began in 2003 with the aim to translate global advocacy on EFA into concrete action at country level. More...
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2. Education in crisis situations (conflict, post-conflict and disasters)
Non-Governmental Organizations
Secondary Education through Distance Learning (SEDL)
The Secondary Education through Distance Learning (SEDL) empowers refugee adolescents and youth self-reliant through completion of their secondary education, which enhances their knowledge and skills through learning, and protects them at one of the most critical ages of human development. More...
By the Refugee Education Trust (RET)
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Move 4 New Horizons (M4NH) project, Nepal
Move 4 New Horizons (M4NH) is an educational pilot project for disadvantaged out-of-school children. The aim of the project is not only to facilitate children’s access to public schools, but at the same time to support these children, who have experienced discrimination and conflict in the past, in their psychosocial development. More...
By the Swiss Academy for Development
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Private Sector
Sesame Workshop and Merck Foundation are working together on Zhima Jie, a comprehensive educational multimedia project in China. The project includes a two-phase community outreach project that addresses the important issue of emergency response and preparedness. The two-phased project on emergency response and preparedness is currently implemented in collaboration with the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF). More...
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3. Information and communication technologies (ICT) for education
Private Sector
Cisco Networking Academy is a global education program that teaches students how to design, build, troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world. More…
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Jordan Education Initiative (JEI): Enabling Education Reform Through Technology
Cisco in partnership with the World Economic Forum (WEF) and other stakeholders launch the Jordan Education Initiative (JEI) in 2003. JEI was established as a public-private partnership. Its main goals were to enhance the quality of education through the effective use of information and communications technology (ICT), build the capacity of the local technology industry, and create a sustainable model of education reform for replication in other countries. More…
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Developing Student’s Future Skills
The project includes 3 major research initiatives and the resulting output of these, and how the combination of these three outputs serves to help governments, systems and schools move the agenda ahead around preparing students for life and work. These initiatives are the Assessment and Teaching of 21st-Century Skills (ATC21S), the ITL Research sponsored by Microsoft’s Partners in Learning, and the Educator Learning Journeys: UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers + Microsoft Deployment Model. More...
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Mobile Learning for Mathematics (Nokia MoMaths) project in South Africa and Finland
The Nokia MoMaths is a mobile mathematics service, which provides learners and teachers access to interactive mathematics learning materials using a mobile delivery platform combined with a social media application for peer-to-peer support. More... (YouTube)
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The Virtual Library for Latin and South America
The Virtual library is a “key-on-hand” solution that allows eBook on-line borrowing for students/teachers. This solution is a good fit for the conditions in Latin and South America where the majority of students do not own personal computers. The virtual element of the library means that the user can access it from anywhere, like the school itself, an internet café or anywhere they can gain access to an online computer 24/7. More...
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Shell Questacon Science Circus (“the Science Circus”)
The Shell Questacon Science Circus (“the Science Circus”) is a highly successful partnership program that takes interactive science and technology education to regional and remote Australia, including remote Indigenous communities. More...
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4. Promote education for the world of work
Non-Governmental Organizations
Reflect, or Reflect-Action as it is also known, is an innovative approach to adult learning and social change, which fuses the theories of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire with participatory methodologies. It was developed in the 1990s through pilot projects in Bangladesh, Uganda and El Salvador and is now used by over 500 organisations in over 70 countries worldwide. More...
ActionAid integrates Reflect in all its programmatic work.
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Working and Learning Together (WLT)
WLT is an ATD Fourth World pilot project in which young people and adults living in extreme poverty are creating decent work opportunities, in partnership with businesses and other stakeholders. It aims to involve the most disadvantaged citizens as project partners, incorporating aspects of both income generation schemes and intermediate labour market programmes. More...
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Private sector
Intel’s model of education transformation is a systemic approach that is based on research and includes the best practices for improved educational outcomes. More ...
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UN system and other international organizations
Initiative francophone pour la formation à distance des maîtres (IFADEM) (In French)
Co-pilotée par l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF) et l’Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), l’Initiative francophone pour la formation à distance des maîtres (IFADEM) vise à:
- 1. améliorer les compétences des instituteurs dans l’enseignement du et en français ;
- 2. appuyer les pays participants à déployer un dispositif d’enseignement en partie à distance et aménager des infrastructures répondant aux besoins de formations continues des instituteurs, en se reposant sur des acteurs de terrain préalablement formés.
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Capacity development for Education for All (CapEFA)
UNESCO’s CapEFA programme began in 2003 with the aim to translate global advocacy on EFA into concrete action at country level. More...
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