Deadline: 5-Dec-21
The Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (SUMMA) – the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (KIX LAC), with the support of The University of the West Indies, the University of Guyana and the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Francisco Morazán of Honduras, invite to participate in the 2nd Call for Innovation in Educational Justice in Central America and the Caribbean.
The call seeks to identify and promote innovations that are in an initial development phase and require technical and monetary support to improve their implementation model in the KIX LAC countries (Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines). They should respond to the main challenges of education systems in the region.
Objectives
General Objective: To respond to priority problems of educational justice in the national systems of Dominica, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, by identifying, supporting and disseminating promising innovations in education with high impact potential.
Specific Objectives
- Identify and promote the development and consolidation of promising educational innovations by providing specific support according to the needs of the project.
- Disseminate promising educational innovations that have the potential to be replicable and scalable to address the region’s priority issues.
Themes
The 2021 Regional Call for Applications will be oriented to identify innovations with the potential to close the educational gaps of children and adolescents in the KIX LAC countries, within the framework of the 3 themes prioritized by the region’s educational leaders:
- Teacher professional development. This may include initiatives that address issues such as attracting and recruiting teaching candidates, hiring and teaching conditions, quality of initial and in-service training, teacher evaluation, learning communities, among others.
- COVID-19 and education. This may include initiatives that address issues such as the use of distance learning strategies (ICT, radio, television, textbooks) to reach students, remedial plans for post-pandemic scenarios, socioemotional support programs for affected students, among others.
- Strengthening public education. This may include initiatives that address issues such as financing and budget allocation to education; strategies to expand public education supply in highly privatized systems; improvements in the transition between the different learning cycles, among others.
Funding Information
- The call for proposals will award 4 innovations that will receive funding of 10,000 dollars (gross), a workshop on Theory of Change and another for the generation of the Sustainability Plan, with evaluation and feedback.
- The duration of each selected project or innovation must be a maximum of 18 months from the signing of the agreement. This period includes a maximum of 12 months of implementation of the intervention, plus the possibility of having some additional months at the beginning of the project, for design purposes, and at the end for project closure.
Eligibility Criteria
- Participation is open to non-profit institutions, such as: school networks, NGOs, local governments, municipal governments, state education secretariats, education-related centers, civil society organizations, corporations, community organizations, trade organizations, among others.
- Each institution may submit one or more applications. Joint applications may also be submitted by one or more institutions. To do so, they must include information from all the institutions in the application.
- The competition will be sub-regional in scope and will be available in 3 languages: Spanish, English and French.
- Institutions or organizations of any kind that implement their innovations in any of the 10 KIX LAC member countries may participate: Dominica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Grenada, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Saint Lucia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
For more information, visit https://www.summaedu.org/en/summa-invites-innovative-projects-in-education-from-central-america-and-the-caribbean/
