TR: Congratulations!
Khaloub Abdellah
Salut Majda
Tout le mérite que le projet Alef peut recevoir ne serait possible que grâce aux efforts et à la qualité des réalisations de ses partenaire.
Je t’invite à lire ce qui suit et à le partager avec tous nos amiEs à l’UNIFEM et à DEMOS
Merci
De :
allstaff...@alef.ma [mailto:allstaff...@alef.ma] De la part de Joshua Muskin
Envoyé : jeudi 7 juin 2007
08:58
À : alls...@alef.ma; 'Dr
Holleweg dit Wegman'
Cc : 'Bidaoui, Monique
(USAID/Rabat)'; 'Zemrag, Dominique (USAID/Rabat)'; 'Casewit, Jane
(USAID/Rabat)'; 'Stein-Olson, Monica (USAID/Rabat)'
Objet : TR: Congratulations!
Bonjour à tous et à toutes.
Vous avez peut-être déjà vu que AED a reconnu l’excellence du Projet ALEF avec un « Team Technical Award ». (Voyez ci bas.) Nous avons été choisis de parmi une soixantaine de projets candidats. (Le prix spécifie l’équipe AED, mais cela est du seulement au fait que AED offre le prix et ne peut, institutionnellement, reconnaître que les siens. Or, May, Sara, moi et nous tous savons qu’il n’y a qu’une équipe ALEF, sans divisions institutionnelles, et que les résultats demande notre effort collectif.)
C’est vraiment un grand honneur, et un honneur que vous méritez tous. Je ne cesse de communiquer à nos partenaires dans les établissements, associations et directions cible la hauteur de mon admiration et de mon appréciation pour tout ce qu’ils font. C’est le moment de vous dire la même chose. Ma fierté d’être votre collègue et de m’associer à vos efforts ne connaît pas de limites. Vous faites un travail important, et vous le faites tous avec intelligence, avec générosité, avec discipline et rigueur, et avec humour. Alhumdellela !
Je compte aussi parmi les récipients de cette reconnaissance nos amis de l’USAID – Monique, Jane & Dominique. Ce sont de vrais collègues chères sans qui nous ne pourrions sûrement pas atteindre les résultats actuels. Et n’oublions pas Willy, qui reste avec nous dans les actions de l’IR 2, dont il nous a aidé à bâtir les fondations. Et Kissami, pour l’alpha !
Enfin, il faut partager cet honneur avec nos partenaires dans les directions, académies, délégations et établissements avec lesquels nous travaillons. Je répète souvent que le Projet ALEF a la forte chance de travailler dans un contexte qui est prêt et capable de canaliser notre assistance technique dans les sens fructueux. Je vous encourage tous à parler de notre prix avec les partenaires et de les remercier pour leurs efforts qui donnent toute la validité à nos actions. On ne réussit que par eux.
Donc, félicitations à nous tous. Et consacrons-nous à faire même mieux l’année prochaine.
Josh
Joshua A. Muskin, Ph.D.
Contractant de l'USAID
Chef de Projet, AED
USAID / Projet ALEF
Education et Formation pour l'Emploi
8, rue Rifi Souissi Rabat
Tel: (212) 037 650295; 037 650321; 037 652330
Fax: (212) 037 753482
GSM: (212) 061 311316
De : Sara
Rachmeler [mailto:srach...@smtp.aed.org]
Envoyé : Wednesday, June 06,
2007 9:32 PM
À : abal...@alef.ma; 'Aziza Chbani'; aez...@alef.ma; aka...@alef.ma; akha...@alef.ma;
bfa...@alef.ma; fzta...@alef.ma; jmu...@alef.ma; kra...@alef.ma;
mbou...@alef.ma; nelmd...@alef.ma; scher...@alef.ma; zn...@alef.ma; Miloud Ahbeddou
Objet : Congratulations!
Congratulations to Miloud Ahbeddou, Alexandra Balafrej-Dhorne, Abderrahim El-Baroudi, Marya Bouarouk, Ratiba Bougrine, Aziza Chbani, Said Cherrhaoui, Abdelkader Ezzaki, Brad Favor, M'hammed El-Hamzaoui, Abdelhak Kamime, Abdellah Khaloub, Najib El Mdaghri, Abdelkrim Mouhahe, Joshua Muskin, Zakia Naji, Aicha Nhili, Khadijia Ramram, Fatima Zahra Tahiri, Youssef Tijiani and Abderrahim Wahi!
My friends, I am very proud to announce that the Senior Management team at AED has chosen you to receive a Team Technical Award as part of the 2007 AED Leadership Awards program. I am sorry that Steve was not able to present your awards during his visit, but the winners were still top-secret at the time! The awards will be distributed at a ceremony in Washington DC on June 14, and I will send them to you immediately.
ALEF was honored out the sixty current education projects administered by AED this year. I am enclosing below the text of the nomination. The text covers only a fraction of the excellent work you do, and I wish we could have gone into more detail about all of the activities you each have a hand in. While the focus of this award is on AED staff, I want to take this occasion to also recognize the entire Project staff, consultants, Moroccan partners, teachers, officials, and the many more who are critical to the excellence and success of our work.
Even if I sent this message every day, May nor I could not fully express the appreciation we feel about the work you do day in and day out. Thank you.
My very best
regards,
Sara
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May Rihani and Sara Rachmeler would like to nominate the AED staff of the Advancing Learning and Employability for a Better Future (ALEF) Project in Morocco for a team technical award. The Project is in its third of four years and has and continues to experience enormous success in terms of project results, management and sustainability. Each AED employee contributes to this success in an active way, and, to put it simply, the Project is an example of what things look like good project design, a fertile context for education reform, and a committed staff come together to make a real difference in development.
Multi-disciplinary approach:
The Project brings together activities in the sectors education, employability, youth and gender in a cohesive, integrated way in order to pursue its aim of improving the quality and relevance of education in Morocco. The Project works with five ministries/secretariats (Education, Professional Training, Tourism, Agriculture and Literacy), USAID and numerous private and civil sector partners under a unified vision. Each activity, be it women's literacy classes in local dialect, training teachers on using ICT to enhance their pedagogy, linking schools to businesses in one-on-one partnerships, or forming competency networks within vocational training sectors, (among many, many other activities) is directly linked to the goal improving quality and relevance of education and professional training.
Teamwork:
ALEF staff are a key factor in the overall success of the project, including one of its most amazing accomplishments: the ability to involve and engage beneficiaries and stakeholders to the extent that these latter are now actively leading field activities. For example, the project works in 337 primary and middle schools in four regions of the country. Monthly workshops are held at each cluster of three schools (bassins scolaires) that are planned and facilitated by teachers, school directors and other education actors previously trained by ALEF. Typically, 4-8 different activities are held around the country on any given workday. Our relatively small staff manages this volume of activity while maintaining their high level of quality.
The components of the project are many: Relevance Program, "School Plan" Program, Development of Entrepreneurial Behaviors program, Literacy Program, After-school program for youth, School director and inspector training, School management committee and PTA training, Girls' education, Multimedia lab management and use, and the list goes on. The level of coordination, communication, logistics and planning necessary to further each component are significant, but ALEF staff have and continue to work hard to work together in an integrated way rather than divide their efforts.
Emphasis on Sustainability:
AED has placed an emphasis on sustainability and participation from the beginning of the project, and each staff member has personally modeled these priorities from day one. What sets ALEF apart from many other development projects is that while our staff bring expertise, they do not see themselves as "the experts". Instead, they lead participatory processes with beneficiaries and stakeholders, generating strategies and modules together. Teachers, education actors, civil society, Ministries, etc, are the true experts on the needs and context of the Moroccan system, and the strategies and tools derived from participatory processes (facilitated by ALEF) are much more likely to take root and be sustainable. For example, one Project component is providing grants to house middle-school girls in four dormitories to allow them to continue their education. AED staff worked with teachers, dormitory monitors, associations and other stakeholders to develop tools and activities to enrich the scholastic and psychosocial support offered in dormitories. After one academic year, AED was able to develop partnerships with major public and private institutions to share these materials which resulted in working with 34 different local associations providing quality housing and support to more than 2,500 girls. This was not a result anticipated in the contract!
Impact on community, beneficiaries, stakeholders and Moroccan education system as a whole:
The Project has an excellent relationship with USAID, to the extent that both see each other as full partners in assisting the development of Morocco's educational system. For its recent celebration of 50 years in Morocco, USAID created dossiers of success stories from programs over the decades. A story about one of ALEF's activities was the first page.
The project has been documented in over 60 Moroccan press articles. The most exciting articles are where "ALEF" is not necessarily mentioned. Rather, ministries describe "their" project. This is a true indication of ownership and sustainability.
Teachers, school directors and others have started to refer to the "ALEF phenomenon," referring to the quality and innovation of this ground-up approach. The project has been approached by education officials and schools in non-project regions asking to be involved, using their own funding. In another example, the Project is partnering with the State Secretariat for Literacy to adapt the ALEF's innovative literacy program, developed using the participatory method, to the national curriculum.
The project is generating tangible results as demonstrated in our monitoring and evaluation. Teachers are working harder, in new ways. Schools are changing the way in which they plan. Women are making better progress in literacy classes in less time. Community participation and opening up schools to their environment is enhancing the quality and relevance of the education at the school. The enthusiasm is tremendous.
There are many reasons why ALEF staff deserve an award. Insisting on participatory methods is challenging and slow, and AED employees have risen above and beyond this challenge to serve as a catalyst for true change. Their teamwork is inspiring, and results speak for themselves.
Sara
Rachmeler
ALEF Project Director
Center for Gender Equity
Academy for Educational Development
Washington, DC
(202) 884-8766
Majda Bessaih
Merci !
Et toutes nos félicitations également a toute l’équipe ALEF !
Majda
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De : Khaloub
Abdellah [mailto:akha...@alef.ma]
Envoyé : jeudi 7 juin 2007
11:02
À : 'Majda Bessaih'
Cc :
alef_...@googlegroups.com
Objet : TR: Congratulations!