CE International Continues Education Technology Project Supporting Economic Empowerment and Livelihoods
Childhood Education International is proud to continue our collaboration to develop a global coaching curriculum and mobile application. The work is part of a multiyear project with the organization Trickle Up, which plans to use the mobile app across its various program communities to alleviate extreme poverty, leverage livelihoods, and strengthen women’s economic empowerment and inclusion.
Over the past year, CE International staff have worked alongside Trickle Up colleagues from program areas in India, Latin America, and the United States to create a learning series that equips coaches with capacities to support participant learning and growth.
Trickle Up partners with women living in extreme poverty to build economic opportunity and drive inclusion. Coaching is a proven component of their approach, which they have implemented in communities throughout Guatemala, Mexico, and India.
A Mobile App for Coaches
Capacity-building and learning modules are built into a mobile application for coaches who are associated with the project. The app, called Coach Up, will work in low-resource and no-broadband locations, ensuring that communities are able to use the digital tool for their capacity-building and learning as they work toward increasing their livelihoods and coming out of poverty.
The coaching curriculum focuses on the Graduation Approach – a poverty alleviation strategy that helps families escape extreme poverty by providing a combination of support, training, and resources to build sustainable livelihoods – and includes topics such as goal-setting, self-esteem, and gender-based violence.
CE International and Trickle Up are working hand-in-hand with education technology development company partner Beekee for creation of the mobile app.
Building Knowledge & Skills to Provide for Bright Futures
“We are so pleased to collaborate and co-create with Trickle Up on this education technology project that will support coaches and participants alike across Trickle Up programs globally,” said Katherine Tek, Project Lead from CE International. “When we help adults learn and build their knowledge and skills, they are better able to strengthen their abilities to generate income, leverage their livelihoods, and provide for their children’s development and education, all increasing the social rate-of-return. We look forward to continuing our partnership with Trickle Up and Beekee to forge ways to bring about education technology and learning to programs.”
CE International, Trickle Up, and Beekee are currently collaborating to finish the design and build of the last learning modules in the Coach Up mobile application.
Soon, they plan to conduct field testing with Trickle Up communities in India to observe and analyze the functionalities and quality of the application and its content. This will allow the team to see what modifications can be made for it to be universally user-friendly, easy-to-use, accessible, and effective for learning.
Images from the prototype of the mobile application Coach Up, which show some of the learning modules: