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Rethinking gender, sexuality and safe learning environments with teachers

VVOB has been working on gender-related challenges in the vulnerable context of vocational schools in Suriname for some years. Since 2018, the training trajectories for teachers also include pedagogical tools to respond to inappropriate sexual behaviour in schools.

Suriname

Secondary technical and vocational education

Teachers

Gender

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

Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation endorses GRP4ECE toolkit

Alexander De Croo received his own copy of the GRP4ECE toolkit and said: "This gives girls genuine equal opportunities."...

Belgium

Rwanda

Zambia

South Africa

Early education

Teachers

Gender

Teachers dismantle gender stereotypes with GRP4ECE toolkit

VVOB, Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) and public education partners in Rwanda, South Africa and Zambia have joined forces to develop a practical approach to gender-responsive pedagogy for early childhood education teachers: the GRP4ECE toolkit.

Rwanda

Early education

Gender

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

Unravelled: 3 forms of 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

Keeping preschoolers safe from gender stereotypes in Vietnam

In our new EU-co-funded project dubbed GENTLE in Vietnam, VVOB and national gender organisation CGFED put gender-responsive play-based learning into practice both in preschools and at home.

Vietnam

Early education

Teachers

School leaders

Gender

Schooling or safety: what would you do?

VVOB puts the issue of school-related gender-based violence at the top of every agenda we have the opportunity to set. We want to shed a bright light on this painfully invisible violation of human rights.

Belgium

Gender

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