BRITE Project

Building Resilience in TVET Schools through E-Learning (BRITE) is a 2-Year program supported by Mastercard Foundation, through COVID-19 recovery and resilience.

[edc.org @EDCtweets]

EDC's Waltham office recently hosted a staff lunch to welcome our new CEO and president, @LiesbetSteer. We're excited that Liesbet has joined us and our team in our mission to collaborate with partners and communities around the world!

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

#InternationalWomensDay means remembering and celebrating how far we have come towards #genderequity and a call to action for accelerating women’s #Equality in all sectors. It's a day of reflection on personal progress & achievements that I have made in my career. #womenintech

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

As we celebrate #IWD2022 and #WomensHistoryMonth we recognize and celebrate the women implementing the @brite_project1 - Meet Joselyne Uwitonze, the @brite_project1 e-learning materials development specialist. #equalityforall #womenintech #BreakTheBias

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Umushinga BRITE wasojwe abasaga 4000 bafashijwe kunoza amasomo y’ikoranabuhanga https://t.co/ZFfKJjkTR9

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Throughout the implementation, BRITE together with @RwandaPolytec built the capacity of 300+ trainers on blended learning approaches enhancing their training/teaching experience.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

As part of the Project sustainability, BRITE Project implemented by @EDCtweets in partnership with @youngafricawks and @Ak_Access handed over today to @RwandaPolytec, ICT equipment to promote blended learning within IPRCs.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Umushinga BRITE wasojwe abasaga 4000 bafashijwe kunoza amasomo y’ikoranabuhanga https://t.co/ZFfKJjkTR9

[Rwanda Polytechnic @RwandaPolytec]

The students are being supported under the project titled “Strengthening Collaborations to Enhance Pathways to Dignified & Fulfilling Work” a project in partnership with @MastercardFdn

[edc.org @EDCtweets]

This week EDC,, @MastercardFdn, and @Ak_Access celebrated the handover of the @brite_project1 to the Rwandan Ministry of Education. In just 2 years the project developed 144 e-learning materials which directly reached 4,289 TVET students

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

During the handover event, Hon. Minister of State in Charge of ICT and TVET @ClaudetteIrere remarked that @brite_project1 had achieved a lot in just two years and at a time when e-learning materials were especially needed in the Rwandan TVET system.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Today, @EDCtweets in partnership w/ @MastercardFdn & @Ak_Access celebrated the handover of BRITE to the @Rwanda_Edu. In two years, BRITE developed 144 e-learning materials for TVET & trained 374 trainers on blended learning in collaboration w/ @RTB_Rwanda @RwandaPolytec 1/2

[Rwanda Polytechnic @RwandaPolytec]

Yesterday 13th Dec. 2022, at IPRC Kigali, 47 students, 22 from Mechatronics offered at @IPRCKigali & 25 from the Food Processing offered at @IPRCMusanze, attended an orientation on e-Work Based Learning (e-WBL)&Baseline Skills evaluation.@Rwanda_Edu @MastercardFdn @brite_project1

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

BRITE is conducting an orientation on its e-Work Based Learning materials for 40+ students from @IPRCMusanze & @IPRCKigali who are part of the @RwandaPolytec-@MastercardFdn Innovation Pilot Program. The materials will help better prepare them for the industrial attachment.

[Rwanda TVET Board @RTB_Rwanda]

Today Rwanda TVET received 150 tablets and 43 laptops and other various ICT equipment from The BRITE Project implemented by @EDCtweets in partnership with @youngafricawks as part of the program sustainability and the promotion of blended learning within the TVET system.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

The BRITE Project implemented by @EDCtweets in partnership with @youngafricawks has provided today 150 tablets and 43 laptops and some more ICT equipment to @RTB_Rwanda as part of the program sustainability and the promotion of blended learning within the TVET system.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Staff from the @brite_project1 team (@EDCtweets & @Ak_Access) are excited to be part of the meeting where these important CBT/CBA frameworks are being validated with other members of the task force.

[TQUM Project @ProjectTqum]

Happening Now : #TQUM together with @RTB_Rwanda and DPs are having a meeting of the taskforce in CBT/CBA implementation for final approval of CBC Development , CBT/CBA implementation and TVET Trainer Certification frameworks . The meeting is being held at #RTTI.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

During the past 2 years, BRITE has worked in partnership w/ @MastercardFdn and @Ak_Access to support @RTB_Rwanda & @RwandaPolytec; the fruits of these efforts are evident: engaging e-learning materials for TVET students & trainers able to use #blendedlearning in their schools.

[edc.org @EDCtweets]

EDC’s BRITE project in Rwanda has given Technical & Vocational Education and Training (TVET) students access to e-learning materials, strengthening the Rwandan TVET system's capacity to implement blended learning instruction, while helping build important digital literacy skills.

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Congratulations to the graduates! The @brite_project1 was happy to support this digital literacy training alongside @RTB_Rwanda @DSkillsfdn @giz_rwanda. As more trainers are equipped with these important skills, #blendedlearning will become a more commonly used teaching approach.

[Rwanda TVET Board @RTB_Rwanda]

Happening shortly in IPRC Kigali Stadium: The graduation ceremony of 2500 Technical Secondary Schools Teachers who went through a training program on Digital Literacy.

The blended training was conducting by Rwanda TVET Board in collaboration with @giz_rwanda from 3- 10/ 2022

[funzi @funzi]

Check out the great work of @brite_project1, a partnership of @EDCtweets & @MastercardFdn, in bringing e-learning solutions to #TVET institutions in 🇷🇼

Working with @RwandaPolytec, @RTB_Rwanda and @Ak_Access they reach 40,000 students & 133 trainers 🙌

https://t.co/DWLSdfM1C9

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

The main objectives of this material are to help students to:
1. Understand what is sexual harassment
2. Detect its signs
3. Know their rights to receive support and follow up
4. Identify ways to prevent it
5. Understand how to report a case

[BRITE Project @brite_project1]

Yesterday, the BRITE Project met with the Hon. Minister of ICT and TVET @Rwanda_Edu, @RTB_Rwanda's Director General and @RwandaPolytec Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor to introduce the new
e-material on sexual harassment for students.