- Education in Emergencies.
- Creating Teaching and Learning Materials.
- School Meals.
- Early Education.
Education Program
Since education is a powerful element of recovery and development and one of the strongest tools for decreasing poverty and convalescing health, gender equality, peace, and stability in Yemen, BFD has taken serious steps towards renovating the education system mainly and directly in rural areas and conflict-affected areas for displaced children, girls and most vulnerable children across many prioritized areas in Yemen and ensure that schools remain open and operational.
Program Components
1- Education in Emergencies
BFD aims to help children affected by humanitarian crises to have access to safe, quality and accredited primary and secondary education. Education in emergencies projects focus on helping children who are out of school back into education. They also ensure their retention through various formal and non-formal education pathways. As the quality of education greatly depends on teachers, BFD action supports teachers with different types of training, coaching, and protection actions. In emergencies, education actions go hand in hand with protection, providing safe and healing learning spaces and, where needed, links to specialized child protection services. All BFD education in emergencies projects have integrated protection elements. BFD is increasingly focusing on the protection of education from attack and the rollout of the Safe Schools Declaration. Every BFD action takes into account the different needs of children based on their age, gender and other specific circumstances.
2- Creating Teaching and Learning Materials
BFD support the development and use of teaching and learning materials as an essential part in developing children’s literacy skills. This is a central component to sustainability and true transformation within a society. Also BFD train teachers, parents and communities to understand how these resources can be used in different ways to strengthen children’s literacy skills.
3- School Meals
BFD’s ensure that all school aged children have access to school meals and are healthy and ready to learn, better health and nutrition allow children to learn and perform better, broadening their educational opportunities. School feeding and health programmes empower girls by dissuading parents from marrying them off early, which halts their education and can result in child pregnancies. School feeding programmes act as an incentive for families to enrol and keep children in school. Relieving parents from having to budget for lunches, they boost incomes and help to alleviate poverty.
4- Early Education
BFD addresses gaps in education systems with innovative, low-cost, replicable interventions that span the age spectrum. Working both directly and through government systems, these programs collectively reach millions of children and thousands of school dropouts each year. In “direct” work, a BFD instructor works with children either in the school or in the community, whereas the “partnership” model involves BFD teams working closely with government teams at the state, district or city level to design and implement programs. BFD’s approach to improving learning outcomes continues to serve as a model within Yemen.
Goals in Action
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Education Program Goals:
- Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes and have access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.
- Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university, and ensure that vulnerable youth and adults achieve literacy, numeracy and have relevant skills, including life, technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs, and entrepreneurship
- Vocational Skills.
- Literacy Programs.
1- Vocational Skills.
BFD conducts short-term, often residential courses of 2 to 3 months in duration, focusing on young men and women from rural areas and urban slums. The model is based on strong industry linkages and youth counselling and focuses on hands-on skills training. Courses taught include construction (including electrical, plumbing, masonry and welding), hospitality (housekeeping, food and beverage service and food production), automotive mechanic, healthcare nursing and beauty and wellness services. In addition to industry specific skills, students also learn basic English, computer literacy and life skills. BFD has a four-step approach to its vocational training programs
2- Literacy Programs
We design our literacy programs to create long-term, systemic change in the places where we work. That means working closely with communities to ensure activities in schools are sustained for many years after Room to Read intervention. We work with communities early in project planning and share costs to establish local ownership, as well as equipping them with the knowledge and skills to continue activities in schools and to source books themselves.
We also advocate for, and work in partnership with, governments to scale effective literacy initiatives in order to respond to a country’s need at the national level. To enable this, we use replicable interventions based on global research and best-practices for helping students in text-poor communities become fluent readers. The data from our project schools demonstrates to governments the kind of impact that is possible with well-designed materials and training. This helps us to work with Ministries of Education to promote widespread policy and curriculum changes that impact children beyond our program schools. These partnerships ensure that we complement national efforts, and sustain and scale programs nationally.
Goals in Action
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Education Program Goals:
1 – Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes and have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.
2- Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university and ensure that vulnerable youth and adults achieve literacy, numeracy and have relevant skills, including life, technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
- Digital Initiatives.
- Strengthening the Education institutions
1- Digital Initiatives
Across age groups, BFD leverages innovative technology so children and youth can take education into their own hands. Contributing to fostering the development of a high-performing digital education ecosystem and Enhancing digital skills and competences for the digital transformation.
2- Strengthening the Education institutions
BFD works with communities, schools and Governments to build strong, innovative education systems that enhance learning for all children. We support data collection and analysis to help Governments assess progress across a range of outcomes and strengthen national Education Management Information Systems. We also develop comprehensive guidelines for education sector analysis that are used in countries around the world to drive equity-focused plans and policies. Our efforts promote transparency, shedding light on education systems so that students, parents and communities gain the information they need to engage decision makers at all levels and hold them to account.
Goals in Action
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
Education Program Goals:
1 – Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes and have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education.
2- Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university and ensure that vulnerable youth and adults achieve literacy, numeracy and have relevant skills, including life, technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship
Child Rights Program
BFD is ensuring to seek the progressive fulfillment of children’s rights that children are born with the same dignity, citizenship, and rights as adults.
1- Child Protection
BFD is focusing to address the full spectrum of risk factors related to violence, abuse, and neglect in the lives of vulnerable children and their families; unaccompanied and separated children, children affected by GBV incidences, children associated with armed forces and groups, children injured as a result of the protracted conflict, children with disabilities, children with chronic medical conditions, children in child headed households, abandoned children, neglected children, children with mental health and psychosocial issues, trafficked children and children at risk of trafficking, children in child labour especially hazardous forms of child labour, and children affected by violence in their homes to assess them in overcoming such arduous circumstances by establishing and initiating Child-Friendly Spaces (CFSs) including Psychosocial Social Support (PSS), Case Management (CM), Livelihood activities (socioeconomic reintegration to create economic opportunities for the children and their families), and awareness activities focusing on increasing knowledge of conflict-affected children and caregivers on CP, life threats, access to case management and PSS services demonstrating resilience, and wellbeing, in addition to promoting children reintegration into the formal education system.
2- Girls Education
BFD’s supports Girls’ education as a strategic development priority. Better educated women tend to be more informed about nutrition and healthcare, marry at a later age, and their children are usually healthier.
They are more likely to participate in the formal labor market and earn higher incomes. All these factors combined helped to lift households, communities, and countries out of poverty. Also, contributing and advocating Gender-equitable education systems that empower girls and boys and promote the development of life skills – like self-management, communication, negotiation, and critical thinking – that young people need to succeed. They close skills gaps that perpetuate pay gaps and build prosperity for Yemen.
3- Child Sponsorship
BFD was the first organization to offer supporters the opportunity to sponsor an individual child. When you sponsor a child, you’re not only helping to support a girl or boy as they grow and learn.
Your monthly support gets combined with the support of other sponsors, ultimately helping BFD ensure that all children regardless of whether they have a sponsor are receiving the life-changing benefits of sponsorship.
SDGs Goals in Action
- Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
- Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
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