Advocacy and capacity building for a mother tongue based instruction approach

• Thematic framework: Education
• Geographical outreach: National
• Types of project: Awareness-raising
  
  
• Beneficiary country: Vietnam
  
  
  
  
• Main responsible:
  UNESCO Hanoi
  Education Sector
  23 Cao Ba Quat
  Hanoi
  Vietnam

Summary of the activities
The Government has been supportive of the use of ethnic minority languages through its policies over time. However, at a practical level, this is often interpreted as the teaching of ethnic minority languages as a subject rather than as a medium of instruction. This project aims at increasing awareness amongst a broad range of stakeholders about mother tongue based instruction.

The main activities are:
- Organise a brain storming workshop with participation of national and international partners with the aim of agreeing on an advocacy strategy
- Develop an advocacy framework with identification of themes, strategy and detailed activities for each theme
- Identify, prepare (translate, adapt and develop) and produce advocacy materials / publications for dissemination in advocacy events
- Organise policy forums / events on each topic
- Organise training on the use and development of advocacy materials / tools

Main partners
- Ministry of Education and Training
- Research Centre on Ethnic Minority Education
- Education Sector Group
- Ethnic Minority Working Group