Egypt Literate Village Activity Annual Report (October 1, 2018 – September 30, 2019)

The project's third year of implementation saw an acceleration of activities in Sohag and Beheira governorates, with the inauguration of its intervention in Assuit Governorate. Community members, particularly women, showed strong engagement in various activities, including adult literacy classes and post-literacy sessions. The project also initiated activities targeting women's leadership development, which were robustly attended. The Literate Village Project continued to coordinate with stakeholders in Sohag and Beheira to ensure collaboration and clarify activities and responsibilities. In Assuit, the project conducted a series of meetings with key stakeholders and partners to orient them on the project's goals, objectives, and activities. The project also met with other organizations supporting community schools to avoid service duplication and ensure collaboration. To build the capacity of community schools' facilitators, the Literate Village Project provided professional development trainings on topics such as newly developed curriculum, print-rich environment, computer skills, multi-grade classroom management, and Students Needs Action Pack (SNAP). A total of 1,342 community school facilitators were trained in Sohag and Beheira on creating a print-rich environment in their classrooms. Additionally, 671 facilitators in Beheira and 752 in Sohag were trained on basic computer skills. The project also provided supplementary reading and teaching-learning materials to community schools. A total of 1,045 Teacher Kits, developed by the project, were delivered to the three governorates, which further distributed these kits to community schools. The Teacher Kits included 42 teaching and learning resources, such as literacy games, visual aids, and activities that can be used by teachers and children to practice literacy skills. The Literate Village Project is committed to supporting all children, particularly those with hidden disabilities and those struggling in the classroom. The project worked on translating and adapting the training sessions and tools of the Students Needs Action Pack (SNAP) module, which was originally developed in Sri Lanka. During this reporting period, the project delivered 2-day TOT workshops for MOE master trainers, training a total of 100 facilitators in Sohag, Beheira, and Assuit. In addition, the project learned through monitoring visits to community schools that there is an urgent need to train facilitators with multi-grade classrooms on how to teach a multi-grade classroom. A total of 818 facilitators working in multi-grade classrooms in Sohag and Beheira were trained on how to successfully manage multi-grades in the same class. The project also supported Beheira CDAs in finalizing the refurbishment of 77 community schools, with a total of 315 refurbished schools. In Assuit, refurbishment works were finalized in 174 schools, and the schools were delivered to the MoE before the start of the new academic year.