Deadline: 21-Jul-21
The U.S. Embassy in Cameroon has announced an open competition for Inclusive Education in Schools to enhance the inclusion and integration of children with special needs in school life in Cameroon.
The program will consist of a sensitization campaign, workshops, and peer learning activities in targeted cities of Cameroon.
This project will instill the desire to promote inclusive education in educators. Proposals must demonstrate knowledge of the situation of children with disabilities in Cameroon and propose a strategy to increase awareness and promote change among principals, school administrators, teachers, parents, and other stakeholders in Cameroon to improve the development of inclusive education.
As a result of the project, school principals and directors should be able to better understand the importance and benefit to enroll children with disabilities. Teachers should be able to technically and pedagogically welcome and integrate children with learning difficulties and disabilities in their classes.
Objectives
- Sensitize school principals and directors on the need and benefit to enroll children with disabilities
- Build the capacities of teachers to facilitate the inclusion of children with disabilities in their classes
- Organize inclusive activities for teachers, parents, and students on diversity and inclusion through children’s work exhibitions, concerts, dances and poems
- Organize peer learning activities to share good practices on support for students with special needs
- Establish “Inclusive Support Teams” in schools to deal with various issues related to inclusiveness
- Disseminate the method and winning strategy used to improve inclusive education in schools
- Carry out surveys to measure progress
- Total available funding: $20,000
- Award amounts: $15,000 to $20,000
- Number of awards anticipated: 1 award
- Anticipated program start date: November 5, 2021
- Length of performance period: 6 to 12 months
Audience
The main target audience for this project is high school personnel including directors, principals, and teachers. The applicant should endeavor to recruit both schools with and without experience in inclusive education. Participants should be drawn from at least 3 targeted cities in Cameroon. Workshops should include a manageable number of participants to ensure quality, interactive learning and retention of content.
Eligibility Criteria
PAS encourages applications from the United States and Cameroon:
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks, community associations, and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit media organizations
- Professional trade organizations
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
For more information, visit https://cm.usembassy.gov/education-culture/inclusive-education-in-schools/