"Enabling Equity to Advance Learning" Project

Save the Children Japan in Mongolia is working as a Grant Agent under the "Enabling Equity to Advance Learning" Project which is financed by the Global Partnership for Education and implemented by the Ministry of Education and Science for the three years /2022-2025/.

The project will be focusing on three education sector priorities, Inclusive Education, School Feeding Programs, and Blended Learning which will be supported by multiplier partners – JICA, KOICA, Save the Children, and other development partners in Mongolia.

Project goal

The overall project goal is to improve access and quality of learning through inclusive approaches. The project will be implemented with three components: "Inclusive Education", ''School Lunch Program" and "Blended Education"

Target group

1. The Inclusive Education component will be implemented at the 18 target schools including two districts of Ulaanbaatar (Khan-Uul and Sukhbaatar) and four rural aimags including Arkhangai, Selenge, Sukhbaatar, and Uvs, and support 4693 mainstream teachers through capacity-building training workshops. In addition, 742 children with disabilities enrolled in all mainstream schools in the selected aimags and districts will directly benefit from the project. The teacher training will therefore indirectly benefit 130,766 primary and lower secondary students (49% or 64,330 girls) with inclusive approaches.
2. The school lunch program component will be piloted in 45 schools: 15 from Ulaanbaatar and 30 from rural and remote areas. It will target over 48,000 children ages 6-14 (24,048, 50% female and 50% male). It will also target 36 nutritionists and cooks. All target groups will be directly benefited from this component.
3. The blended learning component will be piloted in 50 target schools selected from Chingeltei and Khan-Uul districts of UB districts and Uvs, Khovd, Bulgan, Sukhbaatar, and Dundgobi aimags. It will target over 1,000 primary and secondary school teachers, 5,000 students, and 500 female and male parents whose children studying in 50 target primary and secondary schools. It will also target over 100 education administrators in the target locations. All target groups will be benefited from this component. For the further, all general secondary education students and teachers will be indirectly benefited from the project through the creation of e-learning benchmarks and standards for digital infrastructure and administrative systems, a school-based e-learning platform linked to a central depository of digital contents, and the enhancement of a teacher continuous professional development via ITPD's online learning platforms for teachers.

Project objectives:

• Improve the learning environment and conditions for children with disabilities and the capacity for mainstream primary and lower-secondary schools to provide learning support for children with disabilities
• Enable a safe environment for the production of nutritionally balanced and hygienic school lunch
• Support the improvement of the nutritional status of the most marginalized and underserved children and children with special dietary needs (dysphagia, food allergy, malnutrition, etc.)
• Improve policy and regulatory framework to implement blended learning
• Create a contextually appropriate blended learning model and pilot it at target schools

Project outputs:

1. Increased access of Children with disabilities to mainstream schools
2. Improved the quality of school food production and services
3. Improved policy and regulatory framework to implement blended learning
4. Improved student learning achievement through the creation of a contextually appropriate school-based blended learning model