In the sector education, we support secondary school teachers and
students, school administrators and principals, trainee teachers and
ministry of education representatives to:
Improve teacher competencies
Teachers are trained in basic computer skills and ICT-based teaching
methods.
Upgrade educational materials
Teachers are supplied with tools to access, create, update and share
learning materials, providing a steady source of up-to-date and locally
relevant content and strengthening overall curricula.
Improve school management
Schools are supported in using ICT to improve their student and
financial administration. The ultimate goal is better allocation of
scarce resources and improved monitoring of student performance.
Strengthen youth employability
We help vocational training centers to integrate ICT in their
training. This improves the training itself and teaches young people
basic ICT skills, which strengthens their position in the labour
market.
Who did we reach in sector education?
What did we achieve?
In 2010, in the education sector, we:
worked in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ghana, Uganda and
Zambia. In Jamaica, Mali and Tanzania we had projects too, but
they continue independently. This means that they still deploy
activities and are part of active networks but they are financially
sustainable without IICD financial support.
supported 26 ICT for education projects and 5 policy
formulation processes and leveraging
reached out to 320,000 end-users and 1.33 million
indirect beneficiaries
Most of the people we reached were men. This is
because most of our education projects are based in Africa, where the
teaching profession tends to be reserved for men. This is particularly
so in the computer sciences. The majority lived in rural areas
and district towns. Generally they are well educated and
in an economically active age category (between 20 and 50 years
old).
For an overview of our projects in sector education, please
see the project
overview.
Our education partners
Our work in sector education is supported by various partners from
the public, private and non-profit sector. In 2010, these included
(among others):
Case story Zambia
In Youth Resource Centres throughout Zambia teachers are trained how to use computer to better prepare their classes.
Projects in sector education
These include leveraging programmes, policy formulation processes and projects on the ground. All project activities in Jamaica, Mali and Tanzania continue independently from IICD.
