Education

The GREAT project in Ghana targets three regions – Northern, Volta and Greater Accra. The project is directly benefiting 34, 646 kindergartens to primary 6 pupils in a total of 139 schools. Fifty percent of this number are girls. A total of 946 teachers (460 of who are females) and an estimated 107,402 community members including parents, guardians and caregivers are also expected to benefit from the project. The project covers a total of five districts comprising Savelugu, Kumbungu & Tolon in the Northern region and Ga South and Keta Municipality in the Greater Accra and Volta regions respectively.

In the Northern region, NOYED-Ghana was selected as a partner to implement the project by Right To Play. NOYED-Ghana is to carry out all the activities of the project in all the districts across the region. The GREAT Project centers on the use of Play base methods as pedagogy for instructional delivery, aims to integrate gender responsive play-based learning into teacher practice; engage parents and caregivers in addressing gender-specific learning needs, including those of at-risk children; and, promote the adoption of gender responsive play-based learning in pre-service and in-service teacher training. Specific project objectives are to: build the capacity of teachers, education officers and other key stakeholders in gender responsive play-based pedagogies; provide coaching and mentoring support to teachers; strengthen the capacity of SMTs/PTAs in school management and their understanding of gender issues in education; supply teaching and learning materials (TLMs) to target schools; and put in place robust systems for monitoring, measuring and generating evidence. Community sensitizations with key stakeholders, training of volunteer Teachers, provision of mobil van libraries and supplemental learning materials have long been done and the training  of the students has commenced.

The project is implemented by NOYED-Ghana, Ghana Education Service, Right To Play with funding from Global Affairs Ghana.

Net Organization for Youth Empowerment and Development has undertaken a project known as Creating an Enabling Environment for Girl Child Education (CEEGE) which was funded by Empower. This project was aimed at helping girls in Junior High School to improve upon school attendance, performance and build their confidence level. The project also aimed at equipping and helping the mothers of the beneficiaries of the CEEGE project to become financial sufficient to further support their wards in schools. The project was being implemented in two communities, namely; Kakpagyili and Bamvim in the Tamale Metro.

In collaboration with STAR-Ghana, NNED, HAYTAFORD and TIDA, NOYED-Ghana is involved in the programme Improving Teacher Capacity for Better Delivery (ITCD). This three-year project seeks to improve the teaching and learning relationship in six districts within Northern Ghana, but achieve three results:

Increased resource mobilisation and commitment from District Assembly Ghana Education Service , Regional Council Committee and the House of Chiefs in support of timely and regular INSET.
Improved teacher deployment and school management in project districts
Improved teacher performance and academic outcomes from students.
This is being tackled through the building of teacher capacity in subject areas and teaching methods through regular in-service training, as well as the effective allocation of teachers to schools lacking staff.

Additionally, this initiative seeks to recruit local teachers to the school in their area. This is important, as these individuals are more likely to stay in their positions, than those relocating to a new area.

NOYED-Ghana is responsible for the Tamale Metro area and has been working closely with the Metro education office, the Education Sub Committees of the District Assembly and the SMC/PTA Networks on this project.