Teacher Training Southern Sudan

The program addresses “Teaching and Learning Standard 2: Training” by providing recognized, progressive, and participatory in-service training to current primary school and ECD teachers, with adaptations to meet challenges of the Southern Sudan context. The program is helping education training in Southern Sudan transition from shorter-term, emergency needs to longer-term training systems. A major focus for World Relief (WR) is building ECS’ capacity as a local institution, so that it can implement high-quality education programming and in-service training. WR and its local partner ECS have worked together to transition in-service training for teachers from short-term, emergency training to more long-term and sustainable delivery systems. The partners received a round of funding from the Basic Services Fund (a pooled funding mechanism) from 2007 to 2008, enabling them to train 660 primary and ECD teachers and 112 head teachers. A second round from the Basic Services Fund from January 2009 to June 2010 has led to a major scale up, training 820 primary and ECD teachers, 350 head teachers, 200 government officials, and 500 PTA members. Together the partners field one of the largest in-service teacher training programs in Southern Sudan