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At UNICEF, we are committed to support education authorities and our partners (community-based organizations, civil society and the private sector) to ensure that children and adolescents have greater access to quality and responsive health, education and social protection programmes.
We want all children to benefit from quality public policies, programmes and strategies that promote gender and racial equality in health, education and social protection services, while promoting their active participation in the design, implementation and monitoring of services and processes related to their full development.
What do we do?
In education, we advise the government and our partners on cross-sectoral approaches to diversity, gender equality and contextualized education to increase access, student retention and completion of education through:
- Technical assistance to support states and municipalities to engage and implement School Active Search (buscaativaescolar.org.br) strategy to identify children and adolescents who are out of school or in risk of dropping out.
- Equitable and inclusive education strategies, such as Successful School Pathways (trajetoriaescolar.org.br), focused on addressing the culture of school failures by mobilizing and engaging municipal and state educational systems and schools to build a specific curriculum with teachers and students’ involvement and also focused on skills development programmes.
- Technical assistance on educational proposals aligned with the Brazilian National Curriculum, which promote better learning outcomes, opportunities to develop the skills needed in the 21st century and foster digital inclusion.
- Technical assistance to support municipalities on the offer of quality Early Childhood Education and a set of materials to orient teachers and families on pedagogical experiences as Let Me Tell a Story (deixaqueeuconto.org.br)
- Support to adapt instruction and educational content to hybrid modules (offline and online) for learning and skills development to enable adolescents to successfully conclude their education and transition to the world of work and entrepreneurship.
- Advising municipal and state education policy makers to address the challenges of learning loss.
- Development of methodologies and materials to improve training in digital literacy and quality hybrid learning experiences, with education authorities and school community.
- Support to develop relevant curricula, culturally adapted and free of discriminatory practices, that reduce school dropout, age distortion, child labor, pregnancy and violence against children, under the scope of Education that Protects strategy.