Training & Technical Assistance

Scaling Up Our Work

Raising Voices is committed to values-driven technical assistance that fosters safe, ethical programming and partnership. Using that lens, our Violence Prevention Learning Center is helping take the Good School Toolkit to scale through three main models:

• Regional resource persons are trained, skilled individuals supporting schools to implement the Toolkit. Our 40 regional resource persons support approximately 820 of our schools, with each person assigned a manageable number of schools that they support in their specific locations. The regional resource persons provide both in-person and remote support, including training other school staff, conducting action planning and responding to questions along the journey of school implementation.

• Violence Against Children Prevention Centers are community-based organizations that we have collaborated with over many years. We have encouraged these centers to develop a primary focus on preventing violence against children in schools. These centers also enhance Raising Voices’ presence at the district level by building relationships with leadership and the community. We have most recently worked with three centers—the Foundation for Integrated Rural Development (FIRD) and Kanaa Foudnation—supporting 180 schools to implement the Toolkit in their districts.
• Our collaboration with the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports involves expanding the use of Toolkit ideas and activities in 5,000 primary schools across 25 districts nationwide. With the ministry’s support, we hope to scale up to every school in Uganda.

Enhancing Technical Expertise

We provide ongoing capacity-building for the pool of 40 regional resource persons and for Violence Against Children Prevention Center program staff. This training—which involves in-depth understanding of violence against children, mastery of Good School Toolkit materials and a commitment to best practices for providing technical assistance—is designed both to ensure quality Toolkit implementation and to move toward our vision of a pool of technical experts supporting Toolkit implementation.

Taking the Toolkit Online

As part of continuous capacity-building, we are also introducing online courses and have developed a growing library of digital content to foster capacity-building for stakeholders, including Ministry of Education and Sports staff. We will soon host interested groups in a comprehensive online course on Toolkit implementation, full of engaging video content and real-world scenarios. We have also rolled out a Good School mobile app to support technical assistance providers in building their skills and monitoring work in schools.

Supporting Institutional Change

As part of our advocacy efforts, we have also built the capacity of core staff in the ministry’s Gender Unit related to the Good School Toolkit. This has been mainly through training on core Toolkit ideas and invitations to participate in organized activities, like our media campaign and site visits to schools.