Radio Education

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

With overworked teachers struggling to provide formal education, we have developed innovative approaches that use radio broadcasts and recorded lessons on CDs and MP3s as the foundation for our lessons. Broadcast lessons are accessible to anyone with a radio, allowing people to learn without having to leave the safety of their home. Students who wish to gain qualifications can enrol in certified courses in their communities. Our trainers are taught how to support their students in conjunction with these broadcasts and recordings in order to help people gain basic literacy and numeracy skills within six months. They do not need a school building for this, all they need is some simple equipment, and time and dedication. Communities are able to plan the time and location of lessons so they are safe and accessible to all the students. Recorded lessons on CD and MP3 have also been used in displacement camps in Somalia and South Sudan. The radio education programme has been run for women, young people and for people living with disabilities – all of whom would otherwise have been denied opportunities to fulfil their potential

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Somalia, South Sudan

Activity URL

https://africaeducationaltrust.org/radio-education/

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

Not applicable or unknown

Partner(s)

BBC

Ministry Affiliation
Unknown
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
Unknown
Geographic Scope
Global / regional
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Other community members - female
  • Other community members - male
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
Participants include
  • Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • People living with HIV/AIDS
  • People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased years of schooling
Cross-cutting goals
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being