QUALITY EDUCATION

Education has always been at the heart of ADPP’s work. Our education programmes cover all cycles, from early childhood education to primary and secondary education, vocational and technical training, teacher education and higher education.

The programmes also include inclusive education, girls’ education, adult education, school feeding and other areas within ADPP’s educational institutions.

ADPP has been working in straight collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Human Development for over three decades and continues fighting for Quality Education.

As the world strives to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 - Inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning - ADPP works in partnership with Government and other stakeholders who believe that education is one of the most important investments a country can make for the future of its people.

ADPP has always adopted a practical and theoretical approach to providing lifelong learning for children, young people and adults in its 19 educational institutions in all provinces of the country. These institutions comprise 11 teacher training colleges that train primary school teachers, 3 vocational schools, 1 Institute of higher education and 4 primary and secondary schools.

These institutions pride themselves on building and maintaining strong relationships with the communities in which they are located, and working hand-in-hand with local, provincial and central authorities for quality and inclusive education.

TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES - EPFs

RESULTS OBTAINED BY THE EPFs IN 2018:

THE GRADUATE TEACHERS’ NETWORK

In total, 1,137 teachers gathered during the year to improve efforts, strategies and means for better quality education and wider ranging schoolwork, including school gardens, combating child abuse, and actions to keep girls in school including the construction of school sanitary facilities using local materials and making furniture for class-rooms, and building a relationship with all students and parents, and realising sports and cultural programmes.

More than 6,000 booklets providing material to support teachers were printed and distributed in schools. These booklets introduce new methods and activities for the implementation of the primary school curriculum in innovative ways, and provide great support for schools in raising the quality of teaching.

HIGHER INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY/ONE WORLD (ISET/OW)

The Higher Institute of Education and Technology/ One World offers degrees in the areas of Pedagogy and Community Development, both in person and through distance learning. The courses last for 4 years.

ISET/OW applies teaching principles that enable students to be the driving force of their own learning throughout the course with students and teachers working together to engage with all aspects of the Institution’s operation. Part of the training involves the opportunity for students to travel for 3 or 4 months in southern Africa to learn about living conditions in Mozambique and neighbouring countries. These learning and exchange experiences allow students to gain greater understanding and respect for communities.

In 2018 OW integrated 2 more courses: a Degree in Portuguese teaching through distance learning and a Masters course in Pedagogy and Didactics.

VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS

In 2018, ADPP maintained its three vocational schools in the northern, central and southern provinces of the country, namely Nacala Polytechnic Institute (Nampula), Nhamatanda Polytechnic College (Sofala) and Maputo Polytechnic College (Maputo Province).

In these schools, students obtain qualified professional training in the areas of agriculture and livestock, civil construction, business and administration, and community instruction.

These schools are continually evolving and adapting to market needs and reforms introduced by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Higher Education and Vocational Training to prepare and technically empower young people for future jobs, where they are integrated into the labour market as employees or through self-employment, thereby increasing their income and improving their and their families’ living conditions.

In 2018, 69 students graduated in the basic level from the Maputo Polytechnic College, 36 from the Nhamatanda Polytechnic College and 39 from the Nacala Polytechnic Institute.

PRIMARY & SECONDARY SCHOOLS

The primary objective of ADPP primary and secondary schools remains to provide education for vulnerable children and young people with little chance of entering secondary school.

Emphasis is given to life skills, sports and cultural activities aimed at creating a lively and active school.

In 2018, ADPP operated two primary schools with 802 students and two secondary schools with 1,582 students, totalling 2,384 students.

ADPP’s 2 primary schools are: The Children’s Town in Maputo and Ants of the Future in Chimoio. The school programme combines the normal primary school curriculum with life skills learning.

INCLUSIVE EDUCATION

Common and preventable childhood illnesses in Mozambique means 14% of children between 2 and 9 years old are disabled. ADPP works hard to make education more inclusive and contribute to giving each child a quality education.

Since 2008 ADPP has been working with partners from Inclusive Education in ADPP’s Teacher Training Colleges in Nhamatanda and Chimoio and because the project has been so successful, it is now also being implemented in Tete’s Teacher Training College.

ADPP’s Teacher Training Colleges in Nhamatanda and Chimoio have been training teachers with especial needs, equipping them with the necessary skills to teach in primary schools across the country.

Nhamatanda’s Teacher Training College is also supporting Inclusive Education activities in 47 primary schools, including training the deputy directors from these schools.

LEARNING THROUGH PLAY

The EPF in Macuse, Namacurra District, Zambezia Province works with 14 primary schools on inclusive education based on sports and play or “Learning Through Play”. The project provides training and guidance for teachers, disseminates teaching and learning materials on methodologies based on educational games. The project promotes action-oriented learning which takes place through sports and game-based activities that have a physical, cognitive, social and emotional focus. Games and play are also used as an incentive to engage communities in key issues affecting education.

FOOD FOR KNOWLEDGE

ADPP continue to implement the School Food - Food For Knowledge - Project, an education and nutrition project in Maputo Province. 2018 was the third year of the second phase of the project which is being implemented over the period 2016-2020.

Covering the Districts of Manhiça, Matutuine, Moamba and Magude, the project had by the end of September 2018 distributed, 8,071,862 CSB + (vitamin and mineral fortified soybean meal mix) meals per day to 83,269 students in 271 schools.

70 PRE-SCHOOLS

The main objective of the 70 pre-schools project is to strengthen the ability of families and rural communities to promote the integral development of pre-schoolers by raising awareness among parents and community members about the importance of initial investment in healthy growth and development of children.

By 2018, the Project was in its second and final phase, aiming at a solid transfer of the 70 pre-schools to their communities. The 70 schools were built and are operational. The organizational structure is based on Community Coordinating Committees, which are organized and trained to take care of the schools, and the training of facilitators in holistic child development. A wide range of activities have been implemented to build sustainability in relation to activities with children, production of teaching and learning materials, maintenance and protection of pre-schools and equipment, local fundraising and much more.

PROMOTING ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP

This project, which ended in 2018, aimed to promote the concept and culture of citizenship among 9 to 17-year-olds with a particular focus on Maputo province and Matola District, involving 10 primary and secondary schools.

The project directly reached 1,500 people and indirectly 8,500 people and achieved the objectives of increasing the capacity of educational institutions to educate young citizens to gain awareness of their rights, obligations and risks, such as drugs and alcohol, through training teachers and principals. Young people were empowered to express their views and defend their rights, to engage in local governance and decision-making processes and to seek assistance from relevant organizations and networks to carry out projects and ideas. The project was also involved with existing civil society networks and forums and with the media for exercising and promoting citizenship.

GIRLS INSPIRE

The Girls Inspire project seeks to break the cycle of early and forced marriage of children and address the barriers that impede the economic participation of women and girls. To this end, the project supports education and skills development for vulnerable and hard-to-reach women and girls through open technology-based education, thus enabling distance learning. The project is based on the strong belief that offering educational opportunities to vulnerable women and girls is one of the best investments for sustainable development in the country.

In the two years it has been in operation (2016-2018), the project has made significant gains by providing the most vulnerable girls and young people with life skills, personal empowerment, social participation, leadership, literacy, and decision-making, thus leading to their economic empowerment and access to knowledge and information on sexual and reproductive health and rights, which increased the self-confidence of women and girls.

Girls Inspire conducted short vocational courses that were developed in response to demands in the employment market in Nacala. Thus, in 2018, 1,434 vulnerable women and girls were trained in employability and entrepreneurship skills which led them to reduce their vulnerability in relation to the cycle of early and forced marriage of children, enabling them to improve their economic and health conditions, and those of their children within their social networks.

NIKHALAMO – GIRLS STAY IN SCHOOL

NIKHALAMO is a four-year project officially launched in 2014 by ADPP in partnership with Girl Child Rights in Namacurra District, Zambezia Province. Its aim is to improve school retention and completion rates of the last grades of primary education and to ensure the transition of vulnerable girls to secondary school education.

The project operates in 18 primary schools and 3 secondary schools reaching an estimated 20,000 community members.

During 2018, 805 vulnerable girls were supported through the Community Block Grant to move from primary to secondary school.

Donations were also used to buy school uniforms and sanitary towels for vulnerable girls which contributed to retention and increased school attendance.

The project revitalized 21 reading circles and established 5 new primary schools as a way to improve students’ academic performance. 200 Girl Mentors provided guidance and psychosocial support to vulnerable girls, enabling them to address various issues, such as adolescence, orphanhood, and sexual abuse.