Regional FutureLife-Now! Programme Vacancy | Health Coordinator | Malawi

Regional FutureLife-Now! Programme Vacancy | Health Coordinator | Malawi

MIET AFRICA wishes to recruit a Health Coordinator, based in Malawi, to support the implementation of the SADC FutureLife-Now! Programme. This is a 14-month renewable contract position, ending 31 December 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Closing date for applications is 3 October 2023.

For more information on the job role, and how to apply, click on the job advertisement below.

Malawi Health Coordinator

Programme Officer | Care and Support for Teaching and Learning & the FutureLife-Now! Programme (Phase II)

Programme Officer | Care and Support for Teaching and Learning & the FutureLife-Now! Programme (Phase II)

MIET AFRICA, in partnership with the SADC Secretariat, seeks to appoint a Programme Officer to take responsibility for the effective implementation of programmes and projects related to the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning initiative, including the FutureLife-Now! Programme, Phase II and related SADC Secretariat education and skills development programmes.

 

Click here for the Job Profile in English, French and Portuguese:

English Job Profile – Programme Officer-Care and Support for Teaching and Learning and the FutureLife-Now! Programme Phase II

French Job Profile – Programme Officer – Care and Support for Teaching and Learning and the FutureLife-Now!

Portuguese Job Profile – Programme Officer – Care and Support for Teaching and Learning and the FutureLife-Now!

 

Closing Date for applications is 21 September 2023.

 

Eligibility 
National of SADC Member States

Average Package per annum (US$)
74,098

Contract Duration 
until 31 December 2024, 

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

South Africa Menstrual Health Snapshot

MIET AFRICA, along with Days for Girls, the global menstrual health (MH) and hygiene advocacy group, and WASH United have just released the MH Country Snapshot on South Africa. MIET AFRICA’s Monitoring & Evaluation Manager, Dr Renjini Devaki contributed to the report which is aimed at providing MH advocates and organizations with high-level research on, and the status of, individual countries’ MH conditions, policies, rights and challenges.

Download the report and share widely.

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

New Regional Programme: FutureLife-Now!

FutureLife-Now! is a new regional programme that’s built on the successful Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) framework developed in the early 2000’s and that, in 2018, reached over 27 million of the region’s learners with support services. This innovative approach has strengthened the education sector’s ability to respond to the growing numbers of vulnerable children and youth in the region, by providing child and youth-friendly services in support of health, gender, migration, food security, violence and other challenges.

By bringing together two critical elements for human development – education and health­ – and by building upon the systems’ strengthening and policy development that has taken place through CSTL, FutureLife-Now! aims to promote greater self-confidence and hope for the present and future among young people in the SADC region. A combination of activities that includes strengthened HIV education policies, enhanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education,

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

REPORT: Regional Study of Vulnerability Amongst Schoolboys in South Africa

In the years of implementing the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) programme, it has become increasing apparent to CSTL partners that there is a major gap in the delivery of school-based care and support to boys and young men, and that this gap is hindering programme and regional goals for gender equality, HIV reduction and improved educational outcomes for all children. Limited existing literature on boys and young men point to a dearth of evidence on the specific vulnerabilities of boys in schools, and what might be effective in addressing these vulnerabilities.  To this end, an exploratory regional research study was commissioned by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, to better understand the key issues and identify recommendations for future school-based programming.  Click here to download the full report.

 

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Official launch of the Zimbabwe Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) National Model

Zimbabwe’s CSTL model was officially launched by Her Excellency, the First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa on 27 June 2019. The goal of the CSTL programme is that children and youth in SADC realise their rights to education, to safety and protection and to care and support, through an expanded and strengthened education sector response.

Click here for the full report.

 

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA Featured in EU Publication which Highlights the Fight to Promote and Protect Human Rights in South Africa

MIET AFRICA is featured in the recently-published EU publication Walking the Long Road – a snapshot of civil society actors in South Africa. The EU has partnered and supported Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in South Africa for more than three decades to promote and protect human rights and work towards a more equitable and just society. The publication provides a glimpse into the work done by CSOs to fight for a South Africa in which every person’s rights are respected, protected, fulfilled and promoted.

Featured in the ‘Right to Education’ section of the publication, MIET AFRICA is a co-beneficiary with the British Council of an EU grant for a three-year Teaching for All: Mainstreaming Inclusive Education (IE) in South Africa Project. The project aims to improve the attitudes and capacity of pre-service and in-service teachers towards IE through the implementation of existing policy and the integration of training modules and courses on IE into universities and provincial education departments.

It’s Time for Action on #MHDay2019

It’s Time for Action on #MHDay2019

To commemorate Menstrual Health Day 2019, MIET AFRICA’s KwaZulu-Natal District Coordinator Nondumiso Mathenjwa distributed 1500 sanitary pads to Ntabeni Primary School (outside Esikhaleni Township, Richards Bay). This contribution is part of UNICEF South Africa and MIET AFRICA’s partnership project on ‘Strengthening school-based systems to improve education outcomes: sexual and reproductive health and rights, and menstrual hygiene management’. The sanitary pads – generously donated to MIET AFRICA by Donghae Diaper, a South Korean-based manufacturer of sanitary pads, tissues and wet wipes – are being distributed to learners through MIET AFRICA’s school-based programmes, in collaboration with the national Department of Basic Education and provincial education departments.

Pictured are learners from Ntabeni Primary School and Nondumiso Mathenjwa.




Curriculum Differentiation Workshop

Curriculum Differentiation Workshop

In March MIET AFRICA was invited to present a workshop on Curriculum Differentiation to mentors from Toyota-Teach, a sister organization involved in teacher development.  The two-day workshop covered the need for adapting what we teach, how we teach, and where we teach.

Other topics included:

  • How to group learners in a multi-level class so that they can achieve their full potential
  • Implementing DBE policies, such as SIAS
  • How to diagnose learning difficulties experienced by learners in the key subjects of language and Maths
  • Strategies to address the individual learning and support needs of all learners in the classroom

“The presentation was eye-opening and very informative in terms of how to group learners according to their levels of understanding,” said one workshop participant. “Now I am confident to capacitate teachers on the principles and strategies for differentiation,” said another.

“I mastered Matric”

“I mastered Matric”

Lihlithemba Technical High School is one of eight secondary schools currently supported by the Sanlam Blue Ladder Schools project – an initiative by the corporate to improve Maths learner performance in the country. Since 2017, MIET AFRICA has conducted extramural Maths classes with learners, as well as providing the school with Maths equipment and other classroom resources. In 2013 the KwaZulu-Natal Education Department ranked Lihlithemba, which is in semi-rural Ndwedwe, as one of the best-performing schools in the province. In 2013 and 2017 learners at the school were among the top 10 matriculants in KZN, and in 2018 the school did it again!

Mcebisi Ntenga achieved an outstanding seven distinctions in the 2018 National Senior Certificate examinations, including 88% for Maths. His top mark was for Accounting, a subject he admits he did not like at first. He narrowly missed full marks in the subject by 2%.