The UNESCO Middle Schools in Bekaa/Lebanon

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

The goal of this initiative is to widen education opportunities, progressing and pathways and ensure retention for at risk Syrian students in Lebanon. The schools intend to provide quality education to refugees, enhance retention and participation of at risk children and to increase the demand for education, especially among middle and high school girls and boys. More specifically: - Provide Syrian students with complementary education opportunities and educational and psychological support programs to complete basic education. - Foster an educational environment that stimulates learning. - Support and enable mothers of Syrian children, in addition to Palestinians who moved to Lebanon recently as a result of the war in Syria through educational, teaching, awareness and vocational programs that help them acquire new skills.


Location(s)

Middle East & North Africa

Lebanon

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2018 -

Partner(s)

Ministry of Education in Lebanon, Kayany Foundation, American University of Beirut

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Ksrelief

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • School quality

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Sports
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Youth

Age

10 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Other

School Level

  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Computer-assisted learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)

Food/nutrition

  • School feeding

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Art supplies
  • Increased availability of Math materials (rulers, protractors, calculators, etc.)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power
  • Negotiation skills
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe transportation
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved mental health
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Maysoun Chehab
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
m.chehab@unesco.org