American University in Beirut

Lebanon

TAMAM started in Lebanon as a grant-funded research project as part of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Arab Thought Foundation and the American University of Beirut. It has become an educational movement which aims to transform the process of school reform by building the leadership capacity of educators and empowering them to be advocates for social development. One of the programme’s primary pivots is that university researchers work closely with educational practitioners through on-going collaborative action research to generate strategies that are grounded in the sociocultural context of the Arab region. Since 2007, TAMAM has been expanding to over 70 schools in 9 Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan). Over the past 15 years, more than 100 school based improvement projects have been initiated. TAMAM has directly trained more than 1,000 educational practitioners and has benefited more than 35,000 students targeted by the school improvement projects.

Graines de Paix

Switzerland/Benin

Graines de Paix was founded in 2005. Over the last 15 years, Graines de Paix has been producing cutting-edge pedagogical programmes to respond to the problems of growing inequity, violence in education and society, extremism and climate change. The Apprendre en paix, Enseigner sans violence project (Learning in Peace, Education without Violence) was launched in Benin in late 2018, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Benin’s Ministry of Education. The project is based on the pedagogical approaches tested in n Côte d’Ivoire, France, and Switzerland but is anchored in the local context. The premise is that children learn better and achieve greater success and fullment when they grow up in a positive, violence-free environment. Over 4,500 teachers have been trained, 2,500 parents have been sensitized and more than 250,000 children were reached through the programmes.

P4H Global

Haiti

P4H Global is a non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of education in Haiti through the training and equipping of Haitian educators. P4H is currently the official professional development provider for public schools in the north and northeast departments. Since 2011, the 3-year intensive programme has benefited 8,000 teachers and 350,000 students in all ten of Haiti’s departments. Due to the lack of support in remote areas, 70% of the trainings are provided to schools in rural settings. Their methodology stands out because of their student-centred classrooms, collaborative learning structures, social emotional learning processes, and competency-based education guidelines. P4H has also trained school directors, parents, and community members. The project strives for inclusivity by removing language barriers using Haitian Creole as a medium of instruction and by including teachers as co-constructors of the training.