Grants and Contributions

KILO is a modular software platform consisting of several features and applications that facilitate machine-assisted conditioning, enrichment, and management of mission-critical Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Full Motion Video (FMV) to ensure attached metadata is correct and standardized facilitating technical and operational interoperability from the tactical edge, backwards, and up.

Project activities include: (1) implementing a structured literacy support program, including baseline assessments, specialized assessments for learning disabilities, and teacher training in literacy interventions; (2) delivering a tailored social emotional learning (SEL) program featuring workshops for teachers, student activities, guest speakers, field trips, and community engagement with the Royal Grenada Police Force; (3) conducting 3 parenting workshop series on social emotional learning at home and positive discipline to strengthen family engagement and protective factors; and (4) producing a knowledge product summarizing research findings, lessons learned, and tools for replicating SEL and literacy interventions in other primary schools.

The project aims to support the reintegration of child survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) into a safer school system in the conflict-affected and marginalized communities of North and South Kivu in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. The project works to improve girls’ access to education and strengthening education systems to be gender-responsive. The project also works to provide immediate psychosocial, emotional and material support to reintegrate child survivors of SGBV into school. The project seeks to tackle harmful gender norms and gender inequality at the household, school and community level by promoting positive gender norms.
Project activities include: (1) providing social and emotional support, as well as materials and financial support to 900 SGBV survivors and other vulnerable girls and boys to pursue formal and non-formal education; (2) providing training to 780 education leaders or members of school governance structures (school management committees, parent and student associations) on positive gender norms, and the provision of an inclusive, safe, gender-responsive school environment; (3) improving the capacity of 1,445 teachers (of which 466 are women) to deliver protective, inclusive, gender-responsive instructions to girls, including survivors of SGBV.
The project aims to target some 30, 675 direct beneficiaries, including 14, 025 girls and 14, 025 boys between the ages of 6 and 16, and 720 girls and 180 boys survivors of SGBV. The project also aims to reach approximately 87, 600 indirect beneficiaries to receive key messages to raise awareness and strengthen attitudes towards girls’ education.

P007054001: The project “Protective Learning and Nurturing Environments for Girls Education" (PLANE) aims to address the individual barriers that girls face in and out of school in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

This is done by ensuring that they have access to a safe space that offers them protection and safety, both physically and psychologically, as well as opportunities for learning. The project also aims to ensure young and adolescent girls who are out-of-school, at-risk of dropping-out, internally displaced and returned migrants, have access to continue their learning, uninterrupted, by providing flexible, relevant and alternative learning opportunities. An essential component to the method is that alternative learning leads to recognized certificates and enables re-integration into formal schooling or safe employment.

While young and adolescent girls are the focus of the project, the policies and many activities that benefit girls, may also support boys : such as well-trained teachers, inclusive and gender-responsive teaching methods that work for all students, a high-quality and relevant curriculum, and a focus on ensuring safe and secure learning environments for all children and adolescents.

Project activities include: (1) setting-up physically-safe learning spaces; (2) establishing and strengthening safe spaces that offer opportunities to support the social and emotional wellbeing of girls through the provision of trained staff, peer exchanges, links and referrals to protective services, and alternative learning; and (3) empowering girls to seek available support services and to know and realize their rights.

Past blended learning efficacy research has demonstrated a clear benefit for skill acquisition and retention in domains such as aviation, medicine, and academics; however, no research has specifically examined outcomes related to safety and survival training in the offshore context. Therefore, the primary goal of this project is to continue exploring the effectiveness of blended learning (digital content for theory combined with practical evaluation) in the context of offshore safety and survival training.

This project is a digital platform connecting farmers who may be experiencing the impact of social isolation and providing an opportunity to learn about mental health support to address these impacts. 

The objective of this project is for the intern to acquire experience in growing high quality fruit for the fresh fruit market, learning about all the jobs involved in apple production.

The objective of this project is to construct a four-season greenhouse that will serve as a place for production, learning and employment for families and young people in the neighborhood.

​The objective of this project is to provide the employee experience producing organic fruits and vegetables by assisting in packing, overseeing field management and learning techniques to care for the soil.