Teaching the Improved Gender Equality and Responsiveness (TIGER)

OBJECTIVE:

• Overall objective: To ensure primary and lower secondary school children are protected from school-related gender-based violence, enabling their equitable participation in all spheres of life at school and at home.
• Specific objective: To transform the Teacher Education College and 40 schools in Battambang Province into centres of excellence for gender-responsiveness.

 

PROGRAM PROFILE:

• Violence against girls and women in Cambodia remains an issue
• Traditional gender norms remains a constraint for women and girls to participate in social development/education
• School-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a serious obstacle to achieving gender equality
• Education is critical in empowering and transforming the lives of young people, especially girls.
• School, home and the community play important roles to end all forms of violence against women and children.

 

MAIN ACTIVITIES:

A. Gender responsive School Leadership

• Establishing school gender policy

• Change management
• Gender Analysis (= school assessment)
• Gender budgeting, planning and reporting
• Staff development (teacher’s knowledge, attitudes and reflections)
• School facilities and organisation that cater male and females needs (ex. separate toilets/dormitories for boys/girls, gender focal person, counseling service etc.)

 

B. Gender responsive pedagogy

• Developing gender responsive lesson plans
• Developing gender responsive teaching and learning materials
• Using gender responsive language and instructions in the classroom
• Having a gender responsive classroom set-up
• Positive discipline in teaching and learning
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TARGET AREA:

Battambang province

 

TARGET GROUP:

• Teacher Educators + Management in TECs
• 480 Model teachers + Principals in practice schools
• Community people
• 5 CSOs

 

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Below are links to the videos of case studies which are the project impacts.