The hybrid opening ceremony brought together participants from The UNESCO Regional Office in Nairobi, Kenya and Rwanda who joined in from the Kenya Institute of Special Education and University of Rwanda respectively,The Rwanda Basic Education Board, The Ministry of Education Kenya,UNICEF,The…

Nairobi, August 2021: The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative (GESCI) as the Lead Organization, Makerere University’s College of Education and External Studies (CEES) and The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC) are set to implement the Ada…

Under the framework of the Accessible Digital Textbooks (ADT) project, focusing on promoting inclusive education through accessible digital textbooks, the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa is supporting the improvement of equitable and inclusive education through holistic ICT integration. T…

GESCI is delighted to note that schools implementing the African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme since 2016 were among the top 200 schools nationally.

The Regional Education Learning Initiative (RELI) through its Values and Life skills (VaLi) thematic group will hold a virtual launch on Assessment of Life Skills and Values in East Africa (ALiVE). The event brought together RELI members, policy actors, educators, global experts, funding partners,…

The Global e-Schools and Communities Initiatives (GESCI) Board of Directors has appointed Prof.Emmanuel Mutisya as the Board Chairperson to spearhead the organization’s growth in the education and skills development sub-sector. He works with the African Development Bank and is a Visiting Professor…

All the schools worked on a whole-school ICT integration aspect using the GESCI ICT Integration Roadmap and Guidelines. Going through a phased approached from e-Initial, to e-Enabled, to e-Confident and finally e-Mature where schools have ICT integration policies, teachers and students using ICTs in…

In 2016, GESCI through its African Digital Schools Initiative (ADSI) Programme started off on a journey to transform 80 secondary schools in Kenya into Digital Schools of Distinction through integration of ICTs in teaching and learning. Over the past 4 years, teachers have gone through three cycles…

GESCI, in collaboration with the Pan African University Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (PAUWES), has initiated the development of 10 e-Courses through the Subjects Matters Experts previously recruited. This phase of course development has known and continues to experience multiple reviews…

GESCI has worked with a consortium of World Bank consultants on developing Digital Skills Work Plans in collaboration with countries over the past year. Supporting the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, this team developed a draft Digital Skills…