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Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. Using these SAGE resources means applying universal principles of safeguarding for vulnerable people, including children and young people, and those with disabilities.
SAGE session guides and learner workbooks have safeguarding practice integrated in them. For wider circulation purposes, it has been removed as information is specific to each context and organisation. However, as a service provider, it is your responsibility to adhere to the relevant safeguarding standards in your area of operations. For SAGE, we decided it was key for learners and volunteers to be provided with the following information in their local language: how they should expect to be treated by the educators, staff, partners and community members who they will come into contact with as part of SAGE and the reporting mechanisms they can use if they feel unsafe. These reporting mechanisms are accessible, include the contact details of our organisation's safeguarding focal point and include safeguarding contacts who are internal and independent of our organisations.
There are external resources on Safeguarding that may be of interest such as these free courses:https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/globalsafeguarding
Other external resources will be supplied at a later date.
Welcome to Supporting Adolescent Girls' Education (SAGE): Supporting resources
The SAGE supporting resources are designed to provide additional support for a range of learners. There are a set of Early readers, for those who are new to learning to read in English. For those practising their newly acquired reading skills, there are a set of comprehension cards.
SAGE also supports those who might be learning at a distance, who might be temporarily away from an educational setting or can find attending a setting a challenge. The telephone learning cards align with the main SAGE learning programme and can be used to keep learners engaged with their learning through the different modality.
All of the materials are Open Educational Resources (OER), and with the exception of named third party contributions, can be adapted for your own educational context.
SAGE (Supporting Adolescent Girls' Education) is a UK Aid-funded programme through the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Girls’ Education Challenge initiative, led by Plan International and involving a consortium of six partners and the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, Zimbabwe (MoPSE).
Course image: Plan International Zimbabwe SAGE project
