Article 10/03/2025

TEACH programme's new social and emotional learning initiative welcomes EDT as principal implementing partner

EDT has been appointed principal implementing partner for Think Equal’s new social and emotional learning (SEL) component of the UK-funded TEACH (Teacher Effectiveness and Equitable Access for all Children) programme in Zimbabwe.

This initiative is being piloted on behalf of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education (MoPSE) across 18 districts in Manicaland, Mashonaland Central, and Matabeleland South provinces. It aims to build capacity at all levels of MoPSE and will engage teachers, school leaders, and cluster chairpersons.

As SEL component lead, EDT will now build upon its impressive track record of delivering teacher professional development and conducting school inspections within the TEACH programme. We will be responsible for programme quality, logistics, communications, monitoring and evaluation, and the Regional Psychosocial Support Initiative (REPSSI) will provide technical support with training. The project, which will run until June 2026, aligns with Zimbabwe’s heritage-based curriculum, which aims to produce citizens with the relevant skills, applied knowledge, values and dispositions for national development.

The SEL component of TEACH will focus on psychosocial support, wellbeing, social justice and mental health, incorporating 25 skills and competencies in total. It will equip pre-school children in the Manicaland and Matabeleland provinces with foundational values and competencies to help them advance in their education and address societal challenges: qualities such as empathy, self-esteem and respect. This groundbreaking new work will help to develop teachers’ and pupils’ hard and soft skills alike.

Quoted in an article in The Herald, Mr Taungana Ndoro, MoPSE’s Director of Communications and Advocacy, said the initiative will “make [the pupils] people of integrity, such that when they grow up, they are able to use their skills in other areas to the benefit of the socio-economic transformation of the nation.” 

Find out more about the TEACH programme here. 

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