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Funding for international development
15/03/2007
Scottish community organisations, schools and universities are set to help some of the world's poorest countries, backed by funds from the Scottish government.
Patricia Ferguson, the Minister with responsibility for International Development, today announced over £260,000 to develop education, health and economic development projects in Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Uganda and South Africa.
The money awarded is from the Small Grants Scheme, part of the Executive's International Development Fund which is the main funding mechanism for the Executive's International Development Policy, launched two years ago today.
To date, we have dispersed £7.7m to 58 projects across our geographic priority areas of sub-Saharan Africa and areas affected by the Tsunami and Earthquake.
The projects reflect the Executive's international development priorities and particularly those which fit closely to priority areas of the co-operation agreement with Malawi.
Examples of successful projects announced today include:
- Rosehall High School in Coatbridge is linking with St. Mary's School in Malawi to share experience in promoting an effective health education programme in both schools.
- The University of Edinburgh is providing training for primary education teachers in the Busiro region of Uganda.
- The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is developing a training course in Malawi to improve emergency paediatric care as a means to reduce child mortality. It will provide training to 60 healthcare workers in nine hospitals improving the standard of emergency paediatric care for a population of over two million children under 15.
Ms Ferguson said:
"This funding will make a meaningful contribution to Scotland's efforts to help some of the world's poorest countries.
"The Scottish government's international development focus is about sharing common experience, and recognises our collective ambition to play our part in tackling global inequality."
"Last year I visited Malawi and saw first hand how Scotland's partnership with that country is helping to improve lives."
The Co-operation Agreement, signed by the First Minister and Malawian President, Dr Bingu wa Mutharika, in 2005 sets out an agreement on four areas for collaboration: health, education, civic governance and sustainable economic development.
List of Projects
MALAWI-BASED PROJECTS
Applicant: Books Abroad - based in Huntly Aberdeenshire
Title: Books Abroad - Malawi Reading Matters Programme 2007
Main thematic priority: Education
Award £14,400.00
The aim of the project is to send a 20' container of good quality secondhand and some new educational books (approx 65,000) to 181 schools, colleges and resource centres. This will supply struggling schools with reading material which is extremely difficult to secure. The lack of books is a major obstacle to teachers who are willing to educate those who are desperate for an education but for whom there are no resources.
Applicant: Rosehall High School
Title: The Healthy Lifestyle Project
Main thematic priority: Education
Secondary theme: Health
Award: £20,000.00
This proposal seeks to extend the partnership agreement between Rosehall High School (Coatbridge) and St. Mary's (Thyolo) through exchanging skills and experience in promoting an effective health education programme in both schools.
Applicant: Global Concerns Trust
Title: Tools and training for education and livelihood in Malawi
Main thematic priority: Education
Award: £20,000.00
The aim of project is to initiate a Tools & Training project in Malawi with a strong Scottish connection, for men and women with physical disabilities; 10 primary school communities covering 1,000 pupils and 40 community artisans. The employment will boost the earning capacity and the self esteem of the disabled community. The project will support training programmes in Malawi along the lines of similar TFSR projects in other African countries over the last 25 years. African/ Malawi citizens resident in Scotland will be involved in project delivery and awareness raising events and will include the use of community filmed documentaries.
Applicant: Balfron High School
Title: Balfron High School in partnership withRobert Laws Secondary School
Main thematic priority: Education
Award: £19,000.00
The aim of the project is to improve the quality of teaching and learning through CPD and the sharing of good practice. The project supports the two way exchange of knowledge, learning and teaching skills. It will facilitate the sharing of common experience through solo teaching and team teaching in the partner school. It will also Improve the quality of edcuation for pupils both in Scotland and Malawi and develop teachers in Scotland to improve their delivery of a curriculum for excellence.
Applicant: Enterprising Global Citizen Consortium
Title: Embedding of 'enterprising global citizen' in Malawi
Main thematic priority: Education
Secondary theme: Governance
Award: £18,000.00
The goal of the project is to build on the successful pilot of the Enterprising Global Citizen course in Malawi by training teacher trainers to run the course in the University of Malawi; training further teachers in the Blantyre area; and introducing the course in the Dedza area, working with schools supported by the LINK Community Development Project. The Enterprising Global Citizen course encourages children to develop enterprising skills and behaviours in an ethical and sustainable way. While this project is mainly based on delivery in Malawi, the EGC Consortium will work closely with the Development Education Centres in Scotland to ensure that Scottish schools and children are aware of the wider issues involved.
Applicant: Sanday School
Title: Promoting Equality between Sanday School , Orkney andMinga School , Malawi In Relation To Reciprocal Staff Visits, 2007
Main thematic priority: Education
Award £1,362.00
To sustain the partnership (which started in May 2005) between both learners and teachers in both schools and to implement the partnership agreement drawn up jointly in Malawi during a self-financed visit by Sanday staff (teacher, secretary and pupil) in October 2006. The project involves a visit to Minga by a teacher from Sanday in May 2007 and a reciprocal visit by two members of staff (to offer equal opportunities) from Minga School planned for September 2007.
Applicant: Development Education Centres
Title: Understanding Development - Learning about Malawi
Main thematic priority: Education
Award: £20,000.00
To provide relevant resources to schools and teachers in Scotland to enable them to teach understanding of development issues through the curriculum and whole school approaches. The resources will give Scottish teachers the tools and strategies to incorporate global citizenship into their teaching, using Malawi as a context. This would include exploring how issues common to both countries (e.g. poverty and poor health) have such different impacts in the respective countries.
Applicant: Malawi Trade School Appeal
Title: Malawi Trade School Appeal
Main thematic priority: Education
Secondary theme: Sustainable Economic Development
Award: £11,450.00
The aim of the project is to provide support to the Samaritan Trust in its task of providing refuge and a trade education for street children in Malawi. The Malawi Trade School aims to provide tools and training for the children to prepare them to work themselves out of poverty and in to an independent economically rewarding life.
Applicant: University of St. Andrews
Title: Enhancing Health care capacity in Malawi
Main thematic priority: Health
Secondary theme: Education
Award: £19,666.00
This is the first phase of a major project to build health care capacity in Malawi through interaction with the Malawian Ministry of Health and the two major tertiary educational institutions which are responsible for producing and developing key health care practitioners in Malawi.
Applicant: University of Edinburgh
Title: Developing the Infrastructure for Primary Care in Malawi
Main thematic priority: Health
Award: £19,800.00
The aim of the project is to enable the Ministry of Health (MOH), College of Medicine and the College of Health Sciences to develop and deliver a comprehensive primary care programme for doctors and clinical officers specifically designed to provide more effective primary care coverage as outlined in the Government's Essential Health Package for Malawi. This programme will support the Government to build the skill of practitioners working in rural areas, and to better manage the caseload of primary/secondary care.
Applicant: Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
Title: ETAT Malawi
Main thematic priority: Health
Award: £20,000.00
This project aims to support and extend the ETAT (emergency triage assessment and treatment) programme in Malawi using Scottish expertise in collaboration with College of Medicine and Ministry of Health. The project will provide ETAT training to 60 healthcare workers in 9 hospitals improving the standard of emergency paediatric care for a population of over 2 million children under 15. Through implementation of ETAT preventable child deaths can be reduced, potentially saving hundreds of lives.
Applicant: SKIP - based in Glasgow
Title: Orphan care and rehabilitation
Main thematic priority: Health
Award: £20,00 0.00
The aim of the project is to support the orphan care centre and orphans towards empowerment and self-sustainability. It will increase awareness and activity in the UK around international health and inequality, among healthcare students and society as a whole, recognising that healthcare students are the healthcare professionals of the future, with a tangible role in advocacy and policy direction. It will build on links with students and institutions in Malawi, i.e. students at Medical and Nursing Schools.
NON-MALAWI BASED PROJECTS
Applicant: VETAID
Title: Working together: UK and Tanzania
Geographic area: Tanzania
Main thematic priority: Education
Secondary thematic priority: Governance
Award: £19,629.00
The aim of the project is to develop a lively partnership between existing income generation groups of Tanzanian women and Scottish women from areas of multiple deprivations. The Scots will develop transferable computing and marketing skills which they will use to sell traditional Tanzanian bead and leather work in the UK. The groups will both develop an understanding of each others communities/culture and the long-term educational impact will be enhanced by a two way exchange visit.
Applicant: University of Edinburgh
Title: Improving the quality of education in rural areas of Uganda
Geographic area: Uganda
Main thematic priority: Education
Secondary theme: Governance
Award: £19,994.00
The project will provide Scottish Education expertise and capacity to run 28 workshops for 4200 primary school teachers assisting to improve the quality of primary education in the rural area of Busiro, Uganda. The project will benefit the providers of primary education in Busiro by providing training not currently available in areas identified such as teacher pupil relationships, utilisation of visual aids in teaching and combatting attendance issues particularly amongst girls in the community.
Applicant: WWF Scotland
Title: South Africa/Scotland eco school exchange
Geographic area: South Africa
Main thematic priority: Education
Award: £5,792.00
The aim of the project is to assist with the capacity building of node coordinators from disadvantaged backgrounds, who lack some of the basic skills necessary for supporting Cape Town's townships and squatter camp schools to become Eco Schools. It will use Eco Schools South Africa's knowledge and expertise of social justice, human rights and inclusivity to strengthen the global dimension of sustainable development education in Scotland.
Applicant: Waverly Care - based in Edinburgh
Title: Liwomadi
Geographic area: Zambia
Main thematic priority: Health
Secondary theme: Governance
Award: £19,646.00
The aim of the project is to support Liwomadi to scale-up continuum of care in HIV prevention, care and support, treatment and impact mitigation in order to improve quality of life for people living with and affected by HIV.