Project profile — Commonwealth of Learning - Institutional Support 2015-2018

• Saint Lucia (2.05%)
• Malawi (2.05%)
• Bangladesh (2.10%)
• Seychelles (2.05%)
• Rwanda (2.05%)
• Samoa (2.05%)
• South Africa (2.05%)
• Kenya (2.05%)
• Maldives (2.05%)
• Antigua and Barbuda (2.05%)
• Lesotho (2.05%)
• Solomon Islands (2.05%)
• Mauritius (2.05%)
• Tanzania (2.05%)
• Trinidad And Tobago (2.05%)
• Nauru (2.05%)
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (2.05%)
• Tonga (2.05%)
• Namibia (2.05%)
• Grenada (2.05%)
• Pakistan (2.05%)
• Tuvalu (2.05%)
• Sri Lanka (2.05%)
• Guyana (2.05%)
• Papua New Guinea (2.05%)
• Cameroon (2.05%)
• Uganda (2.05%)
• Mozambique (2.05%)
• Ghana (2.05%)
• Nigeria (10.00%)
• Jamaica (2.05%)
• India (10.00%)
• Sierra Leone (2.05%)
• Swaziland (2.05%)
• Vanuatu (2.05%)
• Kiribati (2.05%)
• Belize (2.05%)
• Dominica (2.05%)
• Zambia (2.05%)
• Saint Vincent And The Grenadines (2.05%)
• Malaysia (2.05%)

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (25.00%)
Education facilities and training (11120) (10.00%)
Teacher training (11130) (10.00%)
Educational research (11182) (5.00%)
• Basic Education: Basic life skills for youth and adults (11230) (10.00%)
• Secondary Education: Vocational training (11330) (20.00%)
• Post-Secondary Education: Higher education (11420) (10.00%)
• Agriculture: Agricultural education/training (31181) (10.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Children's issues (significant objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (significant objective)

This grant represents Canada’s institutional support to the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). COL uses these funds, along with other donor funding, to achieve its mandate. COL’s mandate is to help governments and institutions expand the scope, scale and quality of learning by using new approaches and technologies for open and distance learning. COL applies open and distance learning to programs in grade schooling, teacher education, higher education, skills development, farming and the development of healthy communities. In the education sector, COL will support countries, institutions and organizations in their development of formal education mechanisms including: open schooling, higher education, virtual university for small states of the Commonwealth, and teacher education. In the skills sector, COL will support institutions and organisations to develop formal and non-formal learning opportunities that focus on: healthy communities, technical and vocational skills development, Lifelong Learning for Farmers, and technology-enabled learning. Canada’s support to COL contributes to finding durable solutions to education challenges and improving the quality of learning in developing countries across the Commonwealth.

More learners, particularly girls, have access to quality learning opportunities at the secondary level through the introduction and expansion of open schooling; More teacher education and training institutions use open and distance learning (ODL) methods to provide quality training and continuing professional development; Higher education institutions have ODL policies, systems, and materials in place to provide quality education to increased numbers of people, particularly women and marginalised communities; More Virtual University of Small States in the Commonwealth partner institutions collaboratively develop and deliver relevant courses through the use of appropriate open and distance learning methods, including eLearning strategies, as per the Transnational Qualifications Framework (TQF); Organisations and institutions increase equitable access to quality technical and vocational skills development through flexible and blended approaches, particularly for the informal sector; Marginalised rural communities negotiate and access development resources in a sustainable manner through the use of gender sensitive open and distance learning, and as a result of partnerships between government, civil society and the private sector; and More and better learning opportunities about community health and development are in use, particularly by women and youth in resource-poor communities.

Results achieved by the Commonwealth of Learning with the support of the Government of Canada and other international donors as of June 2018 include: (1) 616,680 learners (more than 50% of whom are women and girls) were reached by learning resources and models; (2) 3,177 curricula and learning resources which are relevant to sustainable development and are gender responsive have been put in place; (3) 274 institutions/organizations have taken up, tested and implemented open, distance and technology-enabled learning models for increasing access to education; (4) 38 national/provincial and 144 organisational open and distance learning policies were developed and/or adopted; and (5) 121 communities of practices were created and sustained.

• Proactive disclosure