Project Manager - Can’t Wait to Learn - Uganda

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organization with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced people. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance within the shelter, education, emergency food security, legal assistance, and water,sanitation and hygiene sectors.

The Norwegian Refugee Council has approximately 5000 committed and competent employees involved in projects across four continents. In addition, NRC runs one of the world’s largest standby rosters -NORCAP, with 650 professionals, ready to be deployed on 72 hours notice when a crisis occurs

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian organisation with 60 years of experience in helping to create a safer and more dignified life for people affected by displacement. NRC advocates for the rights of displaced populations and offers assistance through its core competences (CCs): Camp Management, Education, Livelihoods and Food Security, Information Counselling and Legal Assistance, Shelter, and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene.

Conflict, drought and economic collapse in South Sudan have driven over one million refugees over the border into Uganda. NRC operates projects in refugee and host community settlements in the districts of Adjumani, Arua and Yumbe in the West Nile region. Its education projects are currently in two main areas: 1) accelerated education programmes (AEP), targeting over-age learners with basic education by providing a condensed curriculum; and 2) youth education and livelihoods programmes, focussing on vocational skills training combined with literacy, numeracy and life skills.

In response to low learning levels and the difficulty of providing access to education for children and youth in West Nile, NRC is partnering with War Child Holland (WCH) to develop WCH’s Can’t Wait to Learn (CWTL) for Uganda. CWTL is a global programme that has ambitions to increase the number of children with access to quality education in areas affected by conflict in Africa and the Middle East. Building on concepts that have been successfully piloted in Sudan (e-Learning Sudan), CWTL proposes new, cost-effective solutions to the urgent challenges facing education for children in emergencies by utilising innovative technological solutions with a focus on serious gaming. Globally, the programme is led by War Child Holland. In Uganda, NRC and War Child Holland will implement the project, with technical partners.

The CWTL programme will digitise the Ugandan curriculum on to tablets using a serious gaming format, which will be used by children with guidance from a trained facilitator. In addition to mathematics, reading and psychosocial wellbeing-focused materials will be introduced to the CWTL portfolio during 2018. Developing fresh, interactive materials based on the national curricula, and creating effective partnership structures to distribute these, creates new opportunities for making education accessible to those children who have been excluded. By facilitating their access to an effective and innovative learning tool, the CWTL programme seeks to increase children’s resilience and support their educational (re)integration and progression.