Safer Learning Environments Training

This course will provide a useful framework for understanding the intersections of safety and education, provide a more detailed discussion of promising practice in each safety domain, specifically schoolrelated gender based violence, attacks on education, gang violence, psychological effects of witnessing or experiencing breaches to safety, mitigation and preparedness for natural disasters, and the effects of health crises on education. Participants will be introduced to USAID ECCN’s new SLE qualitative assessment tool, and will practice using the data that emerges from it for both program design and evaluation.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the characteristics of SLEs,
2. Integrate evidence-based strategies to promote safety in program design,
3. Interpret and use data from SLE formative and evaluative assessment, and
4. Use the SLE Qualitative Assessment Tool