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In a groundbreaking move for the education and healthcare industries, Zabai and Swisscontact ASTHA have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to introduced entrepreneurial courses and services for community Paramedics (CPs) through their e-learning platform. The MoU signing ceremony was attended by senior officials Including - Farzana Amin, Team leader of ASTHA, Swisscontact and Al Zihanur Rahaman, Country Manager of Zabai.
In 2022, Zabai was granted funding from the EU-UNOPS Lives in Dignity (LiD) Grant Facility to implement the Southeast Education and Employment Opportunities (SEEO) project. The project provides a chain of support for children, youth and the unemployed from displacement-affected communities to progress from basic education to skills training and on to employment.
In the project, Zabai offers technology in the digital learning space, and two partners take on implementing roles. Zabai’s main tasks are developing e-learning content and assembling Learning Hubs (offline servers for people to access the learning materials). The project is run from June 2022 to Nov 2024. Within the span of 30 months, the project will distribute to displaced youths vocational training and to displaced children contextualized basic education materials. A blended learning approach has been selected for the training, where employers/trainers or volunteers/teachers will facilitate and complement the digital learning materials in physical environments. To take digital lessons, the learners will utilize tablets and smartphones connected to offline servers, which will be provided.
One goal of the project is for 2,000 displacement-affected youth between the ages of 16 and 30 to find employment with newly obtained skills in their communities or through migration. Another goal is to reach out to 5,000 school-aged children, split evenly between boys and girls, to receive quality, safe, IT-enabled educational services through volunteer-led alternative learning, including 100 with disabilities.
Zabai has several years of experience implementing similar activities, yet this project is by far the largest in terms of volume of content in both skills and education areas.
“We are proud to be part of this project”, says Ivar Viktil, Managing Director of Zabai. “It is an excellent opportunity to scale up our previous work with learning hubs and e-learning courses developed with support from Innovation Norway in the Vision 2030 programme. Thanks to the European Union and UNOPS for helping us reach out to more beneficiaries in a very vulnerable situation.”
Zabai Contact: ivar.viktil@zabai.no
As a part of our Visjon 2030 project, funded by Innovation Norway, we have worked together with Helvetas Ethiopia to help their staff learn how to create their own digital courses.
After conducting online training sessions in the authoring tool H5P, and teaching staff and TVET trainers how to administrate the Helvetas LMS, we traveled to Ethiopia to do an in-person-training.
Andrea from Zabai Norway and Aung from Zabai Myanmar held the training sessions at Helvetas’ regional offices in Bahir Dar. The sessions were attended by both local staff and teachers from TVET centers.
The trainings focused on how to lead a project where you create your own e-learning course based on a TVET curriculum. The attendees worked with their own background material on various TVET topics such as textiles, mobile phone repair and bajaj (a three wheeled Ethiopian taxi).
As part of the project we also set up an offline hub at a local TVET centre. This hub allows students to access the e-learning courses on the Helvetas LMS without an internet connection.
The project will continue until the end of 2023, where Zabai will assist Helvetas in creating their own courses and deliver more offline learning hubs.
Zabai is expanding and we are looking for new people to join all three of our offices. We have a total of 15-20 vacancies in Norway, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Head over to our vacancies page to find out more.
