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.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Middle East & North Africa
Lebanon
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2018 -
Partner(s)
Ministry of Education in Lebanon, Kayany Foundation, American University of Beirut
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Ksrelief
COVID-19 Response
UnknownGeographic Scope
NationalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
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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)
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