Docentes por la Paz

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Docentes por la Paz (“Educators for Peace”, in Spanish) is an empowering and innovative five-module professional development program for public school teachers in Honduras that increases their capacity to provide quality education in contexts of crisis and conflict, and fosters safe learning environments within the education system. This participatory program responds to the need to support teachers as they navigate contexts marked by generalized conflict, violence, and irregular migration and displacement. While the program was originally developed for use in Grades 4 to 9, many schools have expanded it to include teachers from Grades 1 to 3 and Grades 10-12 as well. The program is part of the USAID- and UNICEF-funded Asegurando la Educación project and is based on INEE’s TiCC Framework. Modules are workshop-based, delivered through a cascading method that begins with pedagogical experts from the Ministry of Education’s Directorate General of Professional Development (DGDP) and the district principals, and eventually reaches teachers. While the program has been codeveloped and is co-implemented with the DGDP, the project is still working with the Ministry of Education to offer curricular value for teachers in the form of a certification. The project expects this to happen in 2020, which would be an important milestone to mainstream the program. Further, the Pedagogical University has expressed interest in the program as part of their pre-service curriculum. Under Module II, the program delivers workshops on rights, violence, and gender: "competencies to identify and categorize the types of violence that can affect education, based in a framework of human rights, child protection, and gender-based violence prevention". 


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Honduras

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Honduras

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education’s Directorate General of Professional Development (DGDP) and Ministry of Education

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • Migration
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Population of interest is not school-aged

School Level

  • N/A

Other populations reached

  • School administrators

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula

Educational Technology

  • Digital learning materials/programs

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • More equal power in relationships
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home