Project achievements (expected):

The DECIDE aims to support decentralization of education governance, in particular in the following areas:

✔ Promoting the development of effective education governance models for regional, sub regional and local levels (ATCs). Support is provided to partner regions in the elaboration of regional and local development strategies, optimizing functions for effective education governance, establishing inter-municipal cooperation and developing a regulatory environment.

✔The Swiss experience on democratic education governance at various levels will be disseminated through the expert support of the development of mechanisms and tools for quality education management in cooperation with the State Service of Education Quality of Ukraine (SSEQU).

✔Provision of technical support in building of professional networks of leaders and employees of the ATCs` governance bodies through strengthening the institutional capacity of key civil society associations and organizations (CSOs) working with local communities.

✔Facilitating the inter-ministerial cooperation in coordinating of education reform (in particular, in decentralization of education governance) through targeted expert support, technical assistance for reform communication activities, development of information and training materials, training courses for civil servants and workers of local self-government bodies, conducting national sociological surveys.

✔Development of practical tools for involving citizens in the education governance in local communities.

✔Provision of technical and expert assistance for training of representatives of LSG bodies, councillors, teachers, heads of schools, school children and representatives of CSOs in targeted ATCs on democracy and human rights, democratization of educational governance and quality education management.

✔The involvement of international experts to establish functional school boards in targeted ATCs that will allow the public to take an active part in school governance.

✔Development of training courses, programs, educational online tools for school children on local self-government.

✔Promoting citizen engagement through the involvement of partner schools and municipalities in the development of joint community projects related to education, youth, sports, culture, community and social events, etc.

✔To support the NUS implementation, the Project supports implementation of training programs on education for democratic citizenship and human rights education (EDC/HRE) in the in-service teacher training system. Besides, courses and materials for the development of citizenship competences will be elaborated and integrated into the educational programs of pedagogical universities and colleges.

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