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West and Central Africa
Children attend class at a school recently
damaged by floods in Kpoto, a village in
Zagnanado Commune of Benin.
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Learning Outcomes
Developing learning outcomes was not part of the project
remit 123 , although outcomes can be inferred from the tables
of integration points (see above).
Policy Development, Planning and Implementation Aspects
At the time of writing, this secondary school capacity building
project has just been completed. To mark the end of the
project, the final pedagogical workshop on the curriculum took
place with 40 ministry level participants in November 2011.
It was followed by an official ceremony at which all the project
documentation was passed over to the Ministry of Education
who approved the materials development. With a preface
written and signed by the Minister of Environment and Minister
of Education, the teacher and student guidebooks are ready
for distribution. It is the intention of UNDP to distribute
them widely, in hard copy free-of-charge, across the country.
However, this plan has not yet been realized given the lack of
funding in the foreseeable future. It is also UNDP’s intention
to share the project outputs widely across the region. Thus
far Togo, Senegal and Niger have expressed their interest in
replicating and disseminating the materials developed in Benin.
There is also an emerging intention to capitalize on the project
experience in a new UN CC Learn pilot project (2011-2013) 124
in Benin 125 .
References
Ministry of Secondary Education, Technical and Vocational
Training, Task Force for the Promotion of Home-grown and
Innovative Initiatives, Ministry of Environment and Protection
of Nature (MEPN), Climate Change and Development – Adapting
by Reducing Vulnerability. (2009a). Report on Stage 1:
Identification of Existing Opportunities for Integrating Climate
Change Issues into Secondary School Curricula in Benin.
[English Translation.]
Ministry of Secondary Education, Technical and Vocational
Training, Task Force for the Promotion of Home-grown and
Innovative Initiatives, Ministry of Environment and Protection
of Nature (MEPN), Climate Change and Development - Adapting
by Reducing Vulnerability. (2009b). Issues Related to
Climate Change. Guide for Secondary School Pupils.
[English Translation.]
Ministry of Secondary Education, Technical and Vocational
Training, Task Force for the Promotion of Home-grown and
Innovative Initiatives, Ministry of Environment and Protection
of Nature (MEPN), Climate Change and Development –
Adapting by Reducing Vulnerability. (2009c).
Climate Change Issues: Secondary Teachers’ Guide.
[English Translation.]
123
Ibid.
124
Benin has recently selected to be one of the three countries to implement a
UN CC Learn pilot project (2011-2013) to strengthen national capacity for
human resources, learning and skills to address climate change. http://www.
uncclearn.org/news/un_cclearn_steering_group_selects_pilot_count
125
Johnson Nkem, Ibid
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