Our series of technical briefs, 'Putting SDG4 into practice', bundles our knowledge and experience of different themes in various country-specific contexts. Each edition zooms in on a specific building block of quality education, and how VVOB strengthens them in its partner countries.
Putting SDG4 into practice #4: Enhancing adolescent wellbeing, learning and opportunities
There are over 1.2 billion adolescents in the world today, an all-time high. The vast majority of these 10-to-19-year-olds live in lower and middle-income countries (LMICs). Adolescence is a transformational phase of human life, but also a period of heightened risk and vulnerability. International literature identifies quality secondary education as a pivotal factor in raising the future opportunities for adolescents.
This fourth publication in our series of technical briefs:
- further explores the critical difference quality secondary education makes for adolescents, especially for adolescent girls and other vulnerable groups,
- explains VVOB's three priority dimensions of action (see right) for quality secondary education,
- shares how VVOB puts this approach into practice in Rwanda, DR Congo, Uganda, Cambodia, Ecuador and Suriname.
This technical brief is available for download below, but please do not hesitate to contact us at info@vvob.be if you wish to receive one or more hard copies, or for any other questions.
More in the 'Putting SDG4 into practice' series:
- #1: School leadership
- #2: Professional learning communities
- #3: Learning through play
- #5: Gender-responsive pedagogy for early childhood education
- #6: Moving education innovations from pilot to scale
- #7: All means all: Inclusive and equitable leading and teaching
- #8: Climate Change Education
- #9: Economic Evaluation of Continuous Professional Development in Education
