
Photography: Online Learning URCE by Azeb Tadesse
UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA
UCLA/URCE WOMEN'S
LEADERSHIP PROGRAM
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of Rwanda-College of Education (UR-CE), under the auspices of the Women’s Leadership Program funded by USAID, partnered in a project that focused on fostering strategies that promote gender awareness in education. Partners worked on building the institutional capacity of UR-CE and its affiliated Teacher Training colleges to expand and enhance the quality of faculty research and provide data that informs educational equity policies and procedures. The project served over a thousand participants. Moreover, the project was able to surpass the threshold of 33% female participation, a challenging accomplishment as women are not well represented at the tertiary education level in the country. Project activities included:
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Diversifying learning and training by integrating technology
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Targeted outreach and awareness programs
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Creating gender-sensitive curricula
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Promoting gender-sensitive research approaches and projects
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Conducting institutional capacity building activities