Mainstreaming Climate Change and Increasing Resilence in the Education Sector

Climate change has negative impacts on children’s education through exposure to extreme temperatures, floods, droughts and storms. On the other hand, education plays an important role in developing capacities to combat climate change. Increasing environmental awareness and education on the climate crisis can contribute to the effective reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to adapting to a changing climate in both the short- and long- term.

This project will primarily benefit to primary, lower and upper secondary students, trainers at provincial teacher training centers, teachers, communities and education officers of selected provinces of Cambodia through training, capacity building, and improvements for better resilience of school infrastructures. The existing Eco-school model in pilot secondary schools will be reviewed, while a similar approach will be designed and tested for primary schools. This will be accompanied by dedicated WASH and health interventions for teachers and students.

The overall objective of the project is to improve capacities of education officers, teachers, and students on climate change so that they can participate in basic climate change mitigation and adaptation initiatives and minimize its impacts on education

1. Develop teaching and learning materials on climate change education for primary schools and pilot these materials through Eco-schools;
2. Develop booklets on climate change response and support increasing resilience of pilot primary schools through WASH training and climate-smart investments supporting WASH and health;
3. Provide mentoring and strengthening to Established Eco- schools for sustainable Implementation; and
4. Develop booklets on climate change response and support Increasing resilience of secondary Eco-schools through WASH training and climate-smart investments supporting WASH and health.

• Teaching and learning materials on climate change for primary education • Lessons learnt on Eco-schools at secondary level • Booklet on WASH and climate change • End-line survey on target schools’ vulnerability to climate change and WASH performance