Improving the lives of children and youth
The Boys and Young Men Vulnerability Framework provides a contextual analysis of the current challenges boys and young men face in the SADC Region, setting the rationale of why the Framework has been developed. Download here
SADC Boys and Young Men Vulnerability Framework | Executive Summary
Download the Executive Summary of the Boys and Young Men Vulnerability Framework here.
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.
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Part 1:
Strengthen quality education for developing human capital for inclusive sustainable development using the SADC Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) and Child and Youth Agency Frameworks (CYAF).
Part 2:
How to apply the Child and Youth Agency Framework (CYAF) to enrich the quality of education for sustainable development, and support to integrate UN General Comment 26: Child Rights, Environment and Climate Change into your routine climate change teaching and learning, and support learners make a submission by 14 February 2023.
This SADC Policy Framework on Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) has been developed to support Member States to strengthen and harmonise their education policies and programmes so that they may ensure comparable and sustainable care and support for teaching and learning of vulnerable learners throughout the region. The formulation of the Policy Framework has been informed by and draws on the history and shared wisdom of Member States, a number of which have already taken steps towards systematisation of care and support for teaching and learning. The Framework seeks to formulate a “road map” for future action by Member States that draws on their past successes and the challenges that have promoted or inhibited care and support in the region; it provides a platform for future development of policies and laws premised on Member States learning from each other, emulating successes that have already been achieved,
The CSTL Child and Youth Agency Framework, a planning framework for empowering children and youth – in and through education – is now available in English, French and Portuguese. Download now!
This guide was developed by MIET AFRICA to guide SADC Ministries of Education and their schools in taking the necessary steps to build schools that are rights-based, inclusive and supportive. It is intended to support schools to operationalise the SADC Policy Framework on Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL), and provides answers to the why, how, what and who questions related to building the foundations of CSTL schools. The process has been informed by MIET AFRICA’s extensive experience gained over many years in the
implementation of CSTL programmes across the SADC region. MIET AFRICA extends its gratitude to Save the Children International and the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation for providing financial support for the development of the guide. Download the guide here.
The report includes a road map for planning to build and maintain a CSTL school. A CSTL school is a rights-based, inclusive school that ensures that every child—especially the most marginalized—receives a quality education that unlocks their full potential as an agent of sustainable development. The goal is that every school in the SADC region becomes a CSTL school that provides transformational, quality, inclusive education to all, especially the most marginalized, and builds the human capital needed for sustainable, inclusive development. Click here to download the report.
MIET AFRICA has developed an advocacy brief to motivate ministries of education across Africa to prioritize the transformation of their education systems within a 21st century learning framework in order to realize children’s civil and political rights in and through education, and in so doing, lay the foundations of sustainable development for the continent.
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.
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