Collaborating to Provide an Effective Community and Systemic Approach to Improving School Safety

• In Event: Roundtable Session (Thurseday I)
  In Refereed Round-Table Session: Implementing partners continuing to learn together to improve learning outcomes and reduce school based-violence

Proposal

The presentation will focus on challenges related to school safety and how it affects education outcomes including enrollment, permanence and learning. The presentation will then describe strategies at individual, school, community and systems levels developed and implemented to address safety challenges placing emphasis key strategies that intersect with the De Lectores a Líderes project: a) private sector engagement, b) gender and social inclusion, and c) engagement of community networks. (Teacher Professional Development is another coordination area that will be addressed in the two subsequent presentations). After this, there will be a review of the lessons learned on the coordination and collaboration between the two projects to date and an analysis of the potential future collaboration. Lastly, the presentation will introduce the National Strategy for Prevention and School Safety launched by the Government of Honduras with assistance from USAID and a description of how the strategy is designed as a platform for collaboration beyond education projects but includes social protection and security initiatives.

Author

• Gustavo Payan, DAI