UNESCO to Train Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) Facilitators on Connect with Respect and Life Skills Based Sexual and Reproductive Health, HIV/AIDS and GBV Education

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to train Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) Facilitators on connect with respect and Life skills based sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS and GBV education to promote safe learning and teaching environments. The training is conducted for 9 days to equip teacher training facilitators (TOTs) with relevant skills and practical knowledge on Life skills based SRH, HIV and Gender including respective and healthy relationship.

Specifically, the training aims to enable TOTs to master both contents and methods and develop competence required for them to train in-service teachers using the approved curriculum support materials. The guest of honor is expected to be Rev. Flavian Kassala, The Bishop of Geita and Chairperson of Tanzania Episcopal Conference Education Department.

This training is divided in to two streams:

First stream: This is a 4-days (20th to 23rd July 2022) training covering sessions on developing respectful and non-violence & bullying relationships "Connect with Respect".

Second stream: This is a 5-days (25th to 29th July 2022) training covering sessions on developing life skills around sexual & reproductive health, HIV and Drugs Abuse prevention education.

UNESCO through the "Our rights, Our lives, Our future" commonly called O3 Project, is committed to promote better health and well-being for all adolescents and young people and to support the Education Sector contribution in ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030.

Working closely with the government through President's office Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), Tanzania Institute of Education, Ministry of Health and relevant education partners, UNESCO programme aims to promote safe learning environments through building skills for health, respectful and non-violent relationships in Tanzanian schools.

This program was developed and implemented to support reinvigoration of the education sector's efforts in particular improving learning and teaching environment through building skills for health, respectful and non-violence relationships in Tanzanian schools. Initially, the program was introduced in 50 schools (20 primary and 30 secondary) in Ilala district & Sengerema district as a pilot area with 150 teachers benefitting from in depth training, and a total of 4798 (Female 2807, Male 1991 (58.5%) learners being reached through curriculum and extra-curriculum sessions. Based on successful results (e.g increases in reported understanding of violence and improved help-seeking knowledge and attitudes) and approval of the materials by the ministry of education through the Tanzania Institute of Education, rolled out to all schools have begun of which distribution of 2200 copies of Connect with Respect materials and Life skills-based sexuality education is underway.

UNESCO believes that, when empowered with appropriate skills, ethics and learner-centred pedagogies, teachers can play an important role in preventing occurrence of violence, bullying and harassment including GBV in the school setting in order to support effectively the managing and monitoring reported incidents of gender-based violence.

The objective of the training include.

1. Enhancing teachers' competence to deliver health promotion and violence prevention programme within their curriculum and through extra-curriculum sessions.
2. Improving access to quality and appropriate health promotion and violence prevention curriculum-support material in schools to enhance teaching and learning process at school level.
3. Documenting best practices "cascade model" for better understanding and evidence generation to inform designing of cost-effective joint programme around health promotion and violence prevention in both public and private schools in Tanzania

This is a 9-days training targeting to prepare trainers of teachers, a total of 54 Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) Facilitator's Education focal persons from 18 dioceses across the country will be trained. Applying "cascade model", trained TEC education staff will later save as teacher trainers and facilitate trainings of teachers in their respective dioceses/decania/parish. This training will therefore benefit 1400 teachers in more than 700 catholic primary and secondary schools.

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UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office, Tanzania | Mathias Herman |+255 755 195 459 | [email protected](link sends e-mail)

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