Tender Documents for PCE
IDRC – Coordination Meeting
Coordination Meeting
The first coordination meeting for the Bhutan Technical Committee members was held at Paro College of Education (PCE) on 16/08/2022 with regard to the joint project “A Multi-Country Study on Educational Innovations for Out of School Children (OOSC) and Children at Risk of Dropping Out (covering Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Nepal)” supported by International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and Global Partnership for Education (GPE). The meeting was attended by representatives from various CSOs that support disabilities such as Ability Bhutan Society, Draktsho Vocational Institute, Phensem Parents Support Group and VTOB. Similarly, there were representatives from Ministry of Education, UNICEF Bhutan, and schools that support SEN programmes. The President, project coordinator and researchers for PCE attended the meeting.
The President as a Chairperson made opening remarks reminding the participants the importance and opportunities of this joint project for out of school children and youth with disabilities in Bhutan. Then the Project Coordinator presented an update of the project activities conducted as aligned to the project phases and milestones achieved till date. The researchers presented the results and analysis of the baseline qualitative study that was conducted with parents of children with disabilities, officials from Ministry of Education, District Education Officers and representatives from CSOs that support people with disabilities.
A brainstorming session was conducted for possible implementation of strategies and programmes that was identified as an output from the qualitative data analysis for including out of school children with disabilities and children with disabilities at risk of dropping out from the schools. It was decided that three intervention strategies namely – advocacy and awareness, therapy sessions and educational activities will be designed as a package considering the severity of disabilities in the children and youth. It was also decided that considering the organization’s strengths in implementing these intervention strategies, respective organizations would develop intervention packages accordingly. The preparation and transition to employability opportunities for youth with disabilities were also explored.
Enumerators Training
Enumerators Training
A day long enumerators training for enumerators was conducted on 6th September, 2022 by two researchers at Paro College of Education. This training was conducted to orient the enumerators with survey tools to identify and trace Out of School Children and Youth with Disabilities in the capital city of Thimphu. Since this survey interview will be conducted for parents of children with disabilities, the enumerators were trained of soft skills approach in collecting valid information. Similarly, the enumerators were also reminded about ethical issues that requires attention during the survey interview. Role play and mock interviews were conducted as a part of training to ensure that these enumerators are confident at the time of interview.
IDRC-KIX
Overview
A joint project titled ‘A Multi-Country Study on Educational Innovations for Out of School Children (OOSC) and Children at Risk of Dropping Out (covering Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal)’ in consortium with School of Arts, Kathmandu University (Lead) in Nepal and South Asian Institute of Social Transformation, Bangladesh (Partner), Paro College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan will address OOSC with Disabilities (OOSCD) and at risk children with disabilities (CWD) of dropping out.
In this regard, the overall objective of this joint project is to innovate and evaluate education approaches and practices that will address in increasing inclusion of OOSC in public schools and prevent children at risk of dropping out. Similarly, the specific objective are as follows:
- Knowledge Generation – build knowledge about innovative practices and strategies to address barriers to inclusive access to education and better learning outcomes for out-of-school children and children at risk of dropping out including their scalability and scalable pathways.
- Knowledge Mobilization – support the mobilization of the knowledge generated in and across education systems to inform policies and practices.
- Capacity Building – build capacity of key stakeholders to generate, use and exchange knowledge and practices that promote quality education for out-of-school and at-risk children.
However, each country will address their own respective themes in terms of different groups of children.
For Bhutan, the theme as considered is educational innovations for out of school children with disabilities (OOSCD) and children with disabilities at risk of dropping out addressing urban and rural community of a particular district in Bhutan.
The timeline for the project is 31 Months (1st May, 2021 – 30th November, 2023)
Project Coordinators
- Binayak Krishna Thapa (Nepal)
- U.S. Rokeya Akhter (Bangladesh)
- Dr. Karma Jigyel (Bhutan)
Events
Mr. Rinchen Gyemtsho
| Professional biography |
རིན་ཆེན་རྒྱ་མཚོ་འདི་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ཞིབ་རོགས་དབང་གི་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་མི་ཅིག་ཨིན། ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༨༧ ལུ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ཅིག་འབད་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ནི་འགོ་བཙུགས་ཅི། ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༨༧-༡༩༩༦ ཚུན་ ལོ་ངོ་བཅུ་ཕྲག་གཅིག་གི་རིང་ལུ་ ཧཱ་རྫོང་ཁག་ ཚ་འཕེལ་དང་སྐར་ཚོགས་སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བ་གཉིས་ཀྱི་ནང་ལུ་ གཞི་རིམ་ཆུང་བའི་རྫོང་ཁའི་སློབ་དཔོན་དང་ དབུ་འཛིན་ངོ་ཚབ་དང་དབུ་འཛིན་ལས་རོགས་པའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཚུ་ཡང་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ སློབ་གྲྭ་ཆུང་བའི་འཛིན་སྐྱོན་དང་ སློབ་སྟོན་གྱི་ཉམས་མྱོང་ཚུ་ཐོབ་སྟེ་ཡོད།
སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༡༩༩༧-༢༠༠༠ ཚུན་ ཆོས་ཚན་རྩ་གཞུང་དང་ལས་རིགས་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་ལས་ཚན་ (CAPSS) ནང་ལུ་ རྫོང་ཁའི་ཆོས་ཚན་རྩ་གཞུང་འགོ་དཔོན་ (Curriculum Officer) འབད་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ སློབ་རིམ་ཆུང་བའི་རྩ་གཞུང་བྲི་ནི་དང་ སློབ་དཔོན་ཚུ་ལུ་ ཁྱད་རིག་གི་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་ བྱིན་ནིའི་ལཱ་ཚུ་འབད་ཡི། ལྷག་པར་དུ་ མཐའ་འཁོར་སློབ་སྦྱོང་སྐད་སྒྱུར་དང་སྦྱོང་བརྡར་བྱིན་ནིའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཧྲིལ་བུ་འབག་སྟེ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ཡི། དེ་མ་ཚད་ སློབ་རིམ་བཞི་པ་ལས་དྲུག་པ་ཚུན་གྱི་སློབ་དེབ་ཚུ་ཡང་གསརཔ་བྲིས་ཡི།
སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༠༠ ལུ་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ལེགས་བཤད་པའི་ལཱ་འགན་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་སྟེ་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ སློབ་སྦྱོང་ལས་རིམ་ཚུ་གི་སྦྱོང་ཚན་གསརཔ་བྲི་ནི་དང་ ལག་དེབ་ཚུ་བྲིས་ཏེ་ སློབ་སྦྱོང་གི་སྤུས་ཚད་ཡར་རྒྱས་རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ལུ་དམིགས་ཏེ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་ཡི། མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ སློབ་སྟོན་སྦྱང་བའི་མཉམ་འབྲེལ་པ་ (TP Coordinator) རྫོང་ཁ་ལས་སྡེའི་འགོ་འཛིན་ (Head, Dzo. Department) གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་རྫོང་ཁའི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་( Program Leader, B.Ed. Dzo.) གཙུག་ལག་གཞི་རིམ་གོང་མའི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ (Program Leader, PgDE) རྫོང་ཁའི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་གི་འགོ་འཛིན་པའི་ (Head of Dzo. Studies ) གཙུག་ལག་མཐོ་རིམ་རྫོང་ཁའི་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྱི་ལས་རིམ་འགོ་ཁྲིདཔ་ (Program Leader, M.Ed. Dzongkha) གི་ལཱ་འགན་ཚུ་ ཅི་ལྕོགས་གང་ལྕོགས་ཀྱི་སྒོ་ལས་ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་དང་ ཞུ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོད།
ཁོ་གིས་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༤ ལུ་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ག་རའི་དོན་ལུ་ རྫོང་ཁ་བརྡ་དོན་སྤྲོད་ལེན་གྱི་སྦྱོང་ཚན་ བྲིས་ཏེ་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེ་ལུ་དང་ སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༡༥ ལུ་ ལུང་འདྲེན་དང་རྒྱབ་རྟེན་འབད་ཐངས་ཀྱི་དཔེ་དེབ་ཅིག་བྲིས་ཏེ་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་ནང་ལུ་ ཞལ་འདེབས་འབད་ཕུལ་ཡི། ཁོ་གིས་ མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭ་རྐྱངམ་གཅིག་ནང་མེན་པར་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་འཛིན་གཙུག་ལག་སློབ་སྡེའི་ནང་ལུ་དང་ ལས་སྡེ་གཞན་ཚུ་ལུ་ཡང་ ཁྱད་རིག་གི་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཚུ་ ཕྱག་ཕྱིད་ཞུ་དང་ཞུ་བཞིན་དུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན་ནོ།། 
Email: rinchengyemtsho.pce@rub.edu.bt
Ms. Chimi Dema
| Professional biography |
Chimi Dema, is an assistant lecturer. She joined the teaching faculty at Paro College of Education from July, 2017. She teaches Diploma and Undergraduate courses especially focusing on Early Childhood Education. She has actively participated in conducting trainings in and out of college in ECCD field. She works with children at the Centre for Early Childhood Studies.
She has been appointed as the Programme Leader for Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Development from August 2020. She is a passionate teacher who wants to see the best for her students and is continuously working for the betterment of the ECCD field in the country. For her research studies, she is interested to study about various types of play especially focusing on blocks and children’s development, parents’ perceptions about play and learning and working with families and communities.
Email: chimidema.pce@rub.edu.bt
Deki Tshomo
| Professional biography |
Deki Tshomo started working at Paro College of Education in September 2021. She completed her year 12 at Rangjung Central School in 2020.
Email: dekitshomo.pce@rub.edu.bt
Tashi Wangmo
| Professional biography |
Tashi Wangmo is currently working as an Adjunct Lecturer at Paro College of Education. She teaches Creative Arts in the Lower Primary. She holds a Bachelor of Education (Primary B .Ed.) from Samtse College of Education. She was teaching Art Education in schools for eight years before joining the college. Her work experience includes reviewing the Art Education Teacher’s Manual and workbook; conducting SBIP and NBIP on Art Education for both teachers of government and private schools; Coordinator of, Art Club. Besides teaching, she initiated giving awareness in the community by recycling baskets and teaching weaving basket skills in the community. She also engaged the children every summer and winter vacation through art activities and the same was done during the lockdown too. As an art teacher, she conducted art competitions and also participated in all the open art competitions and won art prizes too. The greatest achievement was that she held the first ever grand SOLO Art and Craft Exhibition .She also published Class diary, school and Art and Craft Magazine and distributed it to the teachers of Bhutan during the Art Education workshop.
Email: tashiwangmo.pce@rub.edu.bt