The British Council continue to be active in delivering international development projects worldwide. Since April, we've signed contracts on over 15 projects – below are brief descriptions of a selection.
Key to acronyms
DFID – Department for International Development
FCO – Foreign and Commonwealth Office
HSBC – Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
VAWG – Violence Against Women and Girls
CEFR – Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
CSSF – Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
M&E – Monitoring and Evaluation
TVET – Technical and Vocational Education and Training
NAGGF – North Africa Good Governance Fund
CSO – Civil Society Organisation
NGO – Non-governmental Organisation
AMERICAS
Title: Programme to strengthen teaching practices 2019-2022
Country: Colombia
Client: Ministry of Education, Government of Colombia
Sector: EES; Schools
Value: £925,481
Length: 8 months
Description: The British Council and Ministry of Education will join efforts in implementing teacher training initiatives around four pillars: Strengthening teaching practices – ‘Inspiring Teachers’; Innovative learning environments; Teacher development pathways; Strengthening and designing materials for curriculum implementation. The project will last three years in total; this is the first phase.
EAST ASIA
Title: Tackling Modern Slavery from Vietnam
Country: Vietnam
Client: Home Office
Sector: Justice
Value: £847,000
Length: 30 months
Description: This is an inter-agency programme for behaviour change, access to justice and reintegration support. The consortium is led by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in close collaboration with the British Council and World Vision. The British Council will focus on strengthening the judicial responses to human trafficking by enhancing access to justice for victims of trafficking (VoTs) and potential victims of trafficking (PVoTs) by strengthening effectiveness in prosecution and implementation of amended trafficking legislation.
Title: Towards Results in Education and English (TREE)
Country: Myanmar
Client: DFID
Sector: Schools
Value: £11,995,307
Length: 60 months
Description: The project aims to strengthen English language education in Myanmar by improving the quality of teaching of teacher educators and teachers and providing academic oversight of management staff in Teacher Education Institutions and the Department of Teacher Education and Training.
EU EUROPE
Title: EU Scholarship Programme for Turkish Cypriot Community
Country: Cyprus
Client: European Commission
Sector: Higher Education and Science
Value: £4,424,779
Length: 43 months
Description: This is the third PAGoDA contract to manage and deliver the EU Scholarship Awards to the Turkish Cypriot community (TCc) in Northern Cyprus. The programme supports the objective of the European Commission in its efforts to bring the TC community closer to the EU by providing educational and professional opportunities in any of the 28 EU member states. The new contract covers two calls for the academic years 2019/20 and 2020/21. The scholarship programme is expected to benefit 150-170 individuals in each academic year.
GLOBAL
Title: Improving work opportunities for young people in the Commonwealth
Country: Global / multi-region
Client: Cabinet Office
Sector: Skills
Value: £1,999,467
Length: 18 months
Description: The aim of the project is to improve the employment prospects of young people, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, by piloting and introducing new approaches to employer-led skills development. It will focus on skills training centres and the implementation of new policies to enhance apprenticeships and work-related learning.
MENA
Title: Teaching for Success II
Country: Tunisia
Client: FCO
Sector: EES
Value: £1,540,000
Length: 12 months
Description: This is a significant scale-up and renewal for a further year of the English Language Support Programme (ELSP) that finished in March. The project aims to contribute to a more successful transition from education to employment for young Tunisians, which in turn will enhance prosperity and contribute to greater stability and security.
SOUTH ASIA
Title: TA Facility for Schools Sector Development Programme
Country: Nepal
Client: Asian Development Bank
Sector: Schools
Value: £1,991,366
Length: 36 months
Description: The project will contribute to socio-economic development and reduce disparities between different regions of the country through the continuous development of its human resources capacity. The aim is to enable all citizens to have the opportunity to become functionally literate and numerate, and to develop the basic life skills and knowledge required to enjoy a productive life.
Title: AAWAZ II – Inclusion, Accountability and Reducing Modern Slavery
Country: Pakistan
Client: DFID
Sector: Governance and Civil Society; Women and Girls
Value: £19,991,173
Length: 59 months
Description: Building on the success of AAWAZ I, the programme will work with government and local communities to promote the rights of children, women, youth, religious minorities and excluded groups to strengthen their control over their own development. The programme has a particular focus on the issues of modern slavery, to which marginalised groups are extremely vulnerable. The programme aims to reach seven million beneficiaries across the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.
UK
Title: International School Exchange (Connection) Programme – pilot
Country: UK
Client: Department for Education
Sector: Schools
Value: £2,490,098
Length: 12 months
Description: The aim of this programme is to enable secondary pupils in England aged 11+, particularly the most disadvantaged, to have an international and intercultural experience by taking part in a school exchange. The visit must include significant contact with young people at the partner school and involve their families if possible.
WIDER EUROPE
Title: English for Journalists
Country: Kazakhstan
Client: US Department of State
Sector: EES
Value: £192,713
Length: 18 months
Description: This project is a one-year renewal of the six-month English for Journalists programme we have been delivering for the US Embassy in Kazakhstan. The project will deliver 160 hours of face-to-face English teaching to journalists in at least seven cities in Kazakhstan.