Education and skills program (Inclusive education, girls' education and TVET)

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Key Information

People in Need (PIN) helps to improve access to education for Ethiopians by building schools and introducing modern teaching methods into primary, secondary and TVET schools. During the very successful campaign Let’s Build a School in Africa, which started in 2004, companies and institutions contributed to the construction of 17 schools in areas with the least developed infrastructure. Locations are selected according to various criteria – such as urgency (number of children of primary school age and capacity of the schools in the area, their distance from settlements, and so on), cooperation between local authorities, and the community's willingness to participate in the preparatory work. Besides the process of school construction, our education programme is dedicated to training teachers to become proficient in using quality teaching methods and ensure the inclusive approach to all students. Moreover, People in Need cooperates with selected TVET schools to make the labor market accessible to their students and at the same time creating an environment for mutual sharing within the relevant department (agriculture, water sheme management). Our educational programmes aim to: provide quality primary education for all children regardless of origin, religious belief, gender or medical condition, and assist with employment of young people. Through vocational education and training in entrepreneurial and other skills we assist them in establishing a business or finding a job. We encourage young people to actively engage in public life around them and assist them towards the creation of a responsible, democratic society.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Ethiopia

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2017 - 2021

Partner(s)

Helvetas, Centro Italiano Aiuti all´infanzia (CIAI), Awassa TVET College SNNP Regional Water Bureau, South Nations, Nationalities and Peoples‘ Regional TVET Bureau, Bureau of Finance and Economic Cooperation, SNNPR Regional Agriculture Bureau, Yirgalem TVET College, Hawassa Tegbarid Industrial and Construction College, Dilla TVET College and Wollayita Soddo Polytechnic College

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Czech Development Agency ( CZDA)

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Primary to secondary transition

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Empowerment
  • Gender equality
  • Menstrual hygiene management
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Youth

Age

7 - 35

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Vocational

Other populations reached

  • Community leaders
  • Religious leaders

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Internal migrants (from other areas of the same country)
  • Orphans and vulnerable children
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
  • Extending school hours

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
  • Parent Teacher Associations (PTA)
  • School management committees

Curriculum/learning

  • Competency-level grouping
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials

Facilities construction/improvement

  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
  • Construction/improvement of libraries
  • Construction/improvement of schools

Health and childcare services

  • Providing childcare for young mothers
  • Referrals to health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (unspecified)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (paper)
  • Textbooks (unspecified)

Life skills education

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

Menstrual hygiene management

  • Educating girls about menstruation
  • Raising awareness about menstruation (beyond just girls)
  • Sanitary product distribution

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors

Policy/legal environment

  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

Reducing economic barriers

  • Financial literacy training
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Group activities with students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
  • Work with religious leaders

Teaching

  • Hiring more teachers (both men and women)
  • Pre-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Pre-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Empowerment training
  • Leadership training
  • Self-help groups (financial, including savings and credit groups)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equal power in relationships
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Meron Wubishet Mekonnen
People in Need (PIN)
Head of Programs-Ethiopia PIN
meron.wubshet@peopleinneed.cz