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Putting gender front and center in education with TIGER

Six short videos capture the transformation of various stakeholders – young and old – involved in TIGER, our Cambodia-based project aimed at making schools gender-responsive and safe learning environments for both girls and boys.

Cambodia

Secondary education

Primary education

Teachers

Capacity development from a distance: 3 good practices

Challenged by school closures and social distancing, VVOB illustrates how resilience and creativity contribute to continued learning for all in times of COVID-19.

Global

Cambodia

Rwanda

Zambia

ICT in Education

Gender and Development for Cambodia: committed to constructive dialogue

In the TIGER project in Cambodia, VVOB partners with Gender and Development for Cambodia (GADC). Mr Roeurn Satya of GADC explained how they challenge age-old cultural norms about what it means to be a man or a woman.

Cambodia

Teachers

Gender

Shifting school leaders' self-perception away from 'director' towards 'coach' for SDG4 and quality education

Empowering primary school directors: shifting self-perception

School leaders have a crucial responsibility in making sure their teachers teach well. The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports in Cambodia supports them in this, and VVOB contributes by shifting school leaders' self-perception away from a 'director' towards a 'coach' of...

Cambodia

School leaders

Cambodia’s Minister of Education honours VVOB

At VVOB's annual progress review and planning workshop for activities in Cambodia, the country's Minister of Education, Youth and Sport awarded VVOB medals of honour for achieved results...

Cambodia

Primary education

Teachers

Gender

Bridging initial and continued teacher training with UNESCO

In 2018, UNESCO partnered up with VVOB in Cambodia to improve how teachers teach maths. After reforms in preservice teacher training, the organisations now look to in-service teachers to diminish the gap between how student teachers, new teachers and experienced teachers teach maths.

Cambodia

Primary education

Teachers

Unravelled: 3 forms of school-related gender-based violence in Cambodia

Kaat Van Horen, recent graduate from Catholic University Leuven (Belgium), spent nine months in Cambodia working with VVOB on her thesis about school-related gender-based violence. The results of her research define the baseline of our TIGER project.

Cambodia

Primary education

Gender

How to create a gender responsive school environment

Christin Ho of a Belgian centre of expertise for gender equality joined our colleagues in Cambodia to finalise an action guide for gender responsive education. With this guide, the TIGER project transforms the Provincial Teacher Training Centre and 40 schools into centres of excellence for gender.

Cambodia

Secondary education

Primary education

Gender

Partnerships

“Textbooks should show women as doctors and engineers”

Samphon Say has been working with VVOB in Cambodia since 2014. Born and raised in the country, he explains why he wants equal opportunities for both his son and daughter, and how VVOB just might make the difference.

Cambodia

Primary education

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