MCEC_IIEP Quarterly Report #19 Jul_Sep 2016

Interethnic Integration in Education Project

QUARTERLY PROGRAM PERFORMANCE

REPORT No. 19

July 1, 2016 – September 30, 2016

IIEP team in action in the flooded areas

Submitted by:

Macedonian Civic Education Center (MCEC)

under Cooperative Agreement No. AID-165-A-12-00002

USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project QUARTERLY REPORT #19, July 2016 – September 2016

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Page

1. Background 3

2. Progress Towards Objectives 4

3. Crosscutting Activities 6

4. Project Activities 8

4.1. Community Outreach 8

4.2. Capacity Building of School Management and Teachers 10

4.3. Demonstration Schools 18

4.4. Providing Incentives to Schools and Communities 21

5. Lessons learned 31

6. Activities to Increase Participation of People with Disabilities (PWDs) 31

7. Activities in the next reporting period 31

8. List of appendices 35


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MACEDONIAN CIVIC EDUCATION CENTER (MCEC)

USAID INTERETHNIC INTEGRATION IN EDUCATION PROJECT (IIEP)

QUARTERLY PROGRAM PERFORMANCE REPORT No. 19

Cooperative Agreement No: AID-165-A-12-00002

Progress Report No: 19

Reporting Period: July 1, 2016 – September 30, 2016

1. BACKGROUND

On December 2, 2011, the Macedonian Civic Education Center (MCEC) signed the Cooperative

Agreement with USAID agreeing to provide support to USAID’s Interethnic Integration in

Education Project (IIEP).

IIEP is a five-year, USD 6.17 million initiative targeting all primary and secondary schools in

Macedonia. The main objective of IIEP is to build awareness and provide diversity training,

technical assistance, and incentives to school boards, directors, teachers, and administration

officials in support of interethnic integration in education. It will build broad public

understanding on the benefits for all citizens as a result from integrating Macedonia’s education

system. IIEP will also create the political, social and economic environment need for Macedonia

to achieve sustained interethnic integration in schools, in other educational institutions and

eventually all of society. Complementing this, the project team will strengthen the capacity of

school staff, students and parents to address issues of diversity and equity in their schools and

communities.

Project’s approach is comprised of four mutually-supporting and inter-related components.

1. Community Outreach;

2. Capacity Building of School Management and Teachers;

3. Demonstration Schools; and

4. Providing Incentives to Schools and Communities.

Students, parents, teachers, administrators and school board members in all primary and

secondary schools across Macedonia will be the primary focus of project activities. Additionally,

BDE advisors and education inspectors at national and regional level will also be central to

achieving sustained change and will actively participate in capacity strengthening activities.

Achieving success also demands that IIEP actively engages stakeholders in schools, communities

and local governments in the integrated mix of project activities.

MCEC is implementing IIEP on behalf of USAID in partnership with educational institutions in

Macedonia (Bureau for Development of Education, National Examination Center, State

Education Inspectorate, Vocational Education and Training Center) and local NGOs (Center for

Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Loja, Sumnal, Multimedia, Macedonian Institute for

Media and Youth Education Forum).


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2. PROGRESS TOWARDS OBJECTIVES

During the reporting period the following was accomplished:

Crosscutting Activities:

Coordination of the partners performed (Summary Partners Quarterly Reports –

Appendix 1).

Monitoring and Evaluation:

Obtaining and analyzing of the data from evaluation (questionnaires for teachers and

students and focus group reports) of Demonstration schools;

Obtaining and analyzing of the data gained from monitoring of the Demonstration

schools;

Finalization of the Report on the Monitoring and Evaluation of the implementation of

IIEP in the Demonstration Schools;

Finalization of the electronic survey in all schools and municipalities in Macedonia;

Field visit and monitoring (double check) of the IIE activities in selected sample of

schools participants in the Electronic Survey;

Preparation of electronic application for reporting on the parental involvement grant and

for evaluation of the grant activities;

Preparation of the report for trained teachers;

Preparation of Portfolio Review Document for FY 2016;

Meeting with MoES Working Group and several joint visits to the schools pertinent to

the Electronic Survey.

Component One, Public Outreach:

IIEP Web site and other web-based communication resources updated;

Facebook Page Integratika regularly updated with news of ongoing activities;

IIEP Public appearances in the media;

Information materials for IIE developed and disseminated;

Regular informing of institutions, municipalities and schools about the IIEP activities

performed;

Regular coverage of other components’ activities;

Creative workshops organized and held;

Activities at the creative corners organized;

Third module of the forum theatre methodology with 10 teachers from 5 schools

organized and held;

Ribbon cutting events in schools and municipalities prepared and convened;

Forum Theatre workshops in schools organized and implemented.

Component Two, Capacity Building of School Management and Teachers:

IIE implementation in multilingual municipalities supported;

Piloting of the IIE instruments in the Integral Evaluation process in 84 schools

conducted;

Supervision meetings with mentors (master trainers and members from partner

organizations Loja and Sumnal) organized;

Joint student activities in schools with participation and support by the parents

implemented;


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Continuous support to the newly selected schools for renovation from Component 4

provided;

Coordinative meetings with schools for preparing final events on joint sport and fun

activities organized;

Administrative and financial finalization of part of the small grants conducted;

Two summer camps delivered;

Eco action – “Make It Green Again” organized;

IIE certification procedure implemented;

Participation at the International Scientific Conference;

Analysis of the innovative practices for IIE applied on the Nationwide Competition

prepared;

Distribution of the awards to the winning schools and teachers of the Festival for IIE

Innovative Practices organized.

Component Three, Demonstration Schools:

Five trainings/working meetings with SITs carried out;

One joint training in which five demonstration schools have participated with schools

from six municipalities delivered;

The publications (manual for language acquisition workshops and the manual for

democratic participation of students) designed and prepared;

A school manifestation related to the first day in school in one demonstration school

organized;

Election of the student bodies at a classroom level in all demonstration schools convened;

Partnerships among schools for the Days of Interethnic Integration established;

Joint workshops for students organized and implemented.

Component Four, Providing Incentives to Schools and Communities:

Managing of additional school renovations projects;

Final approval of school renovation project;

Provision of final approval on the joint Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan

(EMMP) and preparation of Annexes to the joint EMMPs;

Signing Annexes of the MoUs with the schools and municipalities;

Announcement of tenders for selection of construction companies;

Selection of consulting companies for supervision;

Organization of preconstruction meetings in the schools;

Technical acceptance of the school renovation projects;

Access of people with physical disabilities in the renovated schools;

Delivery of toolboxes for school maintenance in thirteen Phase 5 schools;

Delivered mentoring session for detailed maintenance plan, procedure and budget in one

Phase 5 school;

Organization of follow up in-school meetings in thirteen Phase 4 schools.


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3. CROSSCUTTING ACTIVITIES

3.1. Subcontracts/Partners

3.1.1. Coordination of the partners performed

The coordination of the IIEP partner organizations’ involvement in the IIEP activities during this

quarter, was mainly focused on preparations for the upcoming implementation of the planned

activities, as well as on joint planning for modification of some activities or developing new

initiatives, that will effectively involve a number of students from different ethnicities in joint

activities and will be implemented in the last quarter of the Project.

Within Component 1, in partnership with Youth Education Forum, an activity “Debate

Academy” was planned as a modification of the originally planned Public Debates activities. It

will enable approximately 100 young debaters from the debate clubs from all over Macedonia to

jointly participate in a three–day debate program and debate competitions.

Within Component 2, the new initiatives were planned jointly with the partner organizations

CBS Loja and Sumnal. The activity to be implemented in partnership with CBS Loja will involve

а selected group of students, future teachers from the pedagogical faculties and universities in a

comprehensive training program for developing competences to work in ethnically mixed

environment.

The activity planned jointly with the partner organization Sumnal will involve Roma,

Macedonian and Albanian students from primary schools from Bitola and Skopje in a two-day

project-research activity on exploring different cultures.

During this quarter, the team members-mentors from the partner organizations CBS Loja and

Sumnal, participated at the Supervision Meeting organized for the master trainers and mentors on

September 16th

(for the first group) and on September 28th

(for the second group). The partner

organizations’ mentors, together with the master trainers facilitated the mentoring meetings. The

agenda of this last cycle of the mentoring meetings for representatives from all schools

throughout Macedonia included: reflection on past IIE achievements and challenges, as well as

providing recommendations for the future IIE implementation. During the meetings the schools

were also informed about the lately developed IIEP publications, tools and resources.

The regular coordination with partner organizations included daily communication, coordinative

meetings and partners’ reporting. More details on partner organizations’ activities

implementation in this quarter can be found in the partners’ narrative reports, presented in

Appendix 1 - Summary Partners Quarterly Reports.

3.2. Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Activities

3.2.1. Monitoring of the IIEP Activities

A summary report from monitoring of the Demonstration schools for 2015/2016 school year was

prepared. Additionally, the data from this school year was combined with data from previous

school years (stating from 2012) and a report for IIEP in the Demonstration schools was prepared

(complete report available upon request).


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3.2.2. Evaluation Activities

A summary report from all focus groups was prepared and included in the cumulative Report on

the M&E of the Demonstration Schools. All the separate reports (monitoring report, report on

quantitative data-questionnaires and report on qualitative data-focus groups) were integrated, and

cumulative report of the Demonstration schools was prepared.

3.2.3. Electronic Survey

In this reporting period, the report from the electronic survey in schools was finalized

(complete report available upon request). The representatives of the MoES Working Group

were invited to participate in all activities required for the preparation of the report on a

regular basis. There were several phases of the working process:

The electronic survey questionnaire was open for electronic administration in the

period from June 27th

- July 8th

, 2016, and due to the low percentage (20%) of

included schools, additional two weeks extension was allowed. In this period, the IIEP

M&E team and IIEP Working Group members contacted all municipalities and asked

to motivate the schools to fill in the questionnaires. This request was pretty

constructively accepted by the municipal representatives and the percentage of

included schools increased. There was a need for a small percent of schools to be

contacted directly. All those activities resulted in a high percent of included schools in

the survey (93% out of the total number of 447 schools).

When the questionnaire was closed, the processing and the analysis of the data was

conducted. The MoES working group members were invited to participate in the

processing and analysis phase, however, due to the period of annual vacation they

were not in a position to take part. Due to this, the results of the electronic survey were

left to be analyzed with MoES in the next period, so that transfer of knowledge to

MoES is possible.The internal analysis of data results implied that schools might have

reported joint activities that have not actually happened-- either due to the unclear

meaning of the types of the activities listed in the questionnaire, or because of the need

to present that they have done more, mainly to manifest their commitment to inter-

ethnic integration in education. In order to verify the information on joint activities

obtained from the schools, CHRCR/IIEP team in cooperation with the MoES members

visited a sample of 12 schools and discussed the implemented activities with the SIT

members. The schools were visited in September 2016 and during the visits, SITs

were asked to describe and show evidence of the implemented activities, in order to

help the project team understand what was actually done and how it was done. At the

end, all the results were analyzed and report from the electronic survey was prepared.

Two electronic applications were prepared for the need of Component 2 activities. One is for

reporting on the grants for Parental involvement, and the second for evaluation of the grant

activities. Almost all schools filled in the questionnaires.

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3.2.4. Additional activities

In this reporting period, in accordance with the BDE representatives’ request, report about the

implemented IIEP trainings for teachers was prepared. The total number of included teachers and

school staff in accordance with the type of training is the main focus of the report. Additionally, a

summary on the effects of the IIEP trainings is presented. Portfolio Review and Actual Data for

FY 2016 were also prepared in this period.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3W9DFWM

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8BD62Q2


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4. PROJECT ACTIVITIES

4.1. COMPONENT ONE: COMMUNITY OUTREACH

4.1.1. Outreach at national level 4.1.1.1. Regular coordination meetings with partner organizations: Macedonian Institute

for Media (MIM), PAC Multimedia and Youth Educational Forum (YEF)

During this reporting period, IIEP staff organized regular coordination meetings with the three

partner organizations. It included the planning and outline of timetable of activities in the

schools. Also plans for outreach and media appearances were developed.

4.1.1.2. IIEP web site and other web-based communication resources

The team continued to regularly update the site with the latest news from schools’ activities,

events, photos, stories from joint student activities and so on http://pmio.mk/category/stories-of-

integration/. All the video products from the activities are available and can be found at:

http://pmio.mk/video-materials/.

4.1.1.3. Facebook page Integratika

Facebook page Integratika (https://www.facebook.com/mk.integratika/) continued to be a firmed

social platform for sharing schools’ activities stories, stories of active involvement of parents,

summer camp experiences, interesting videos, announcements, and similar content. Until now,

there are 1,060 Facebook users, with 1.4K likes on the posts, and around 251 shared posts from

teachers, students and others.

4.1.1.4. IIEP public appearances in the media IIEP representatives appeared as guests on several television morning shows in order to share the

results, the activities and the progress that is achieved in the schools in the sphere of interethnic

integration. On ТV21 and MRTV, information was provided about the recent and the upcoming

activities, as well as about the institutional support of the interethnic integration activities, while

on TV Telma information was provided about the renovations and the support for the schools

affected by the August floods. Two parents who were included in the grant-programme for

parental inclusion in activities for IIE were guests on Alsat-M TV in order to share their

experiences and positive practices. In addition, parental activities for IIE were media covered by

TV Kanal 5. Furthermore, a meeting was organized with a host of a debate show on TV21 –

Click Plus, during which the possibilities for participation of the IIEP in the show were

discussed.

Public events, partnership activities among schools, joint student activities, and similar were

broadcasted by the local and national media.

In addition, snapshots and stories of various activities can be found at:

USAID Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/USAIDMacedonia?fref=ts

Integratika: https://www.facebook.com/mk.integratika/.

4.1.1.5. Regular informing of institutions, municipalities and schools about the IIEP

activities performed and production and dissemination of information materials for IIE

The project team continued with the preparation and the dissemination of the Monthly Reports to

inform all key education institutions, donors and international organizations about the progress

and results of IIEP. Calendars of events for BDE and USAID continued to be prepared and

disseminated on monthly basis as well. Media outlets had an opportunity to read and learn about

the good practices through a Media Digest distributed to everyone. A one-pager was designed

and refreshed with the new updated data and information of the IIEP results, whereas the

http://pmio.mk/category/stories-of-integration/

http://pmio.mk/category/stories-of-integration/

http://pmio.mk/video-materials/

https://www.facebook.com/mk.integratika/

https://www.facebook.com/#!/USAIDMacedonia?fref=ts

https://www.facebook.com/mk.integratika/


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information with reference to the previous results and achievements of the IIEP was updated and

a respective document on accomplishments was prepared.

4.1.2. Outreach at local level

4.1.2.1. Creative workshops in five selected secondary schools Every week during the reporting period, trained teachers under the mentorship of IIEP and

partner organization Multimedia implemented creative workshops with a group of 20-25 students

in five selected secondary schools. In addition, teachers and students started preparation of

activities for finalization of the products that will be publicly presented in their communities in

the course of October and November 2016.

4.1.2.2. Forum Theatre methodology

The third training module for Forum Theatre methodology was held, during which 10 teachers

from the five selected schools finalised the capacity building for this methodology. In the

forthcoming period, the teachers will disseminate the acquired skills and knowledge with the

other teachers and students in their schools through forum theatre workshops and forum theatre

presentation. In partnership with PAC Multimedia, upon self-initiative and request of the

secondary school Josif Josifovski from Gevgelija, an additional three-day training for 30 teachers

was organized and held in order to develop their skills for organization of creative workshops in

the school. Teachers aim to use these skills and apply them in their regular and extra-curricular

activities in the school.

4.1.2.3. Forum theaters -Activities of the Creative Corners of Schools Under the guidance of the previously trained teachers, during this reporting period, two forum

theatres were held within the creative corners of the schools SOU “Orde Copela” Prilep and

ASUC "Boro Petrusevski” Skopje. The forum theatres were attended by more than 150 students

and teachers, as well as other guests from the local communities who had the possibility to

actively share their positions, to cooperate and to find potential solutions on the set stage in order

to gradually eliminate the prejudices and the stereotypes, and to strengthen the interethnic

cooperation.

4.1.2.4. Ribbon cutting ceremonies

In cooperation with the schools and the municipalities, two ribbon cutting ceremonies were held,

by which the successfully completed renovations of the schools PS “Aleksandar Zdravskovski"

from the Municipality of Jegunovce and the PS “Drita” from the Municipality of Saraj were

celebrated. In front of the numerous audience, the student activities that are implemented with

students from the partner schools were presented, in order to share the good practices that

contribute to the promotion of the interethnic integration.

4.1.2.5. Preparations for the upcoming activities

Preparations were made for the upcoming ribbon cutting ceremonies, the public promotional

events, the forum theatres, the public presentations of the products of the creative workshops, as

well as the debate academy. In addition, coordination meetings were also held with the partner

organizations in order to plan the upcoming activities.

4.2. COMPONENT TWO: CAPACITY BUILDING OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND

TEACHERS

4.2.1 Support the IIE implementation in multilingual municipalities

IIEP continued strengthening the role of the municipal education officials in fostering the IIE

implementation in multilingual municipalities. The workshop “Days of Interethnic Integration”


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with educational officials from 6 multilingual municipalities (Butel, Kumanovo, Brvenica,

Gostivar, Kicevo and Strumica) and members of SIT’s from selected host-schools that showed

successes in the IIE implementation, was held on August 29th

, 2016. Thirty eight participants

were introduced to the concept of the activity “Days of Interethnic Integration” and they were

included in the process of planning of the preparatory activities to present IIE achievements in

the regions during the closing events that will take place in the host schools. The goal of this

activity is to strengthen the role of the municipal officials to encourage integration and exchange

of experiences among all schools on municipal level in the implementation of IIE activities, share

successful IIE practices and promote professional collaboration among ethnically mixed teachers,

students and parents.

During the reporting period meetings were held with representatives from all schools from the

selected 6 municipalities. The meetings were conducted by municipal education officials in

collaboration with the SITs from the selected host schools.

The role of the Project team in collaboration with the master trainers was to support the schools

in the implementation of IIE activities using effective pedagogical approaches. The municipal

officials provided continuous support to schools in the preparation of the “Days of Interethnic

Integration” and encouraged schools to continue with the implementation of the “Days of

Interethnic Integration” as a tradition in the future. The table below displays the date of the

meetings and schools that participated in the meetings. The final event in each municipality will

take place in October.

Table 1. Date of the meetings and schools participating in the municipal meetings

Municipality Schools participating in the municipal meetings Date

Butel

7 Primary schools: Zhivko Brajkovski – host school; Panajot Ginovski;

Petar Zdravkovski – Penko; Kliment Ohridski; Liman Kaba - Ljuboten;

Aco Shopov; Goce Delchev - Ljubanci.

06.09.2016

Kumanovo

14 Primary schools: Braka Miladinovski and Bajram Shabani – host

partner model schools; Vuk Karadzik; Krste Misirkov; Toli Zordumis;

Hristijan Karpos; 11 Oktomvri; Magdalena Antova; Kocho Racin; Naim

Frasheri; Jeromi de Rada - Cherkeze; Bitolski Kongres - Lopate; Kiril I

Metodij - Romanovce; Braka Ribar – Tabanovce; Vera Kotorka –

Klechovce; Karposh – Umin Dol;

16.09.2016

Brvenica 3 Primary schools - Goce Delcev – Tenovo – host schools; Kosta Racin;

7 Marsi

07.09.2016

Gostivar 4 Secondary schools - OSEU Gostivar – host schools; SOU Gostivar;

OSTU Gostivar;

21.09.2016

Kicevo

9 Primary schools: Sande Sterjoski – host model schools; Kuzman

Josifovski Pitu; Naim Frasheri – Jagol Dolenci; Gerg K. Skenderbeg –

Srbica; Hristo Uzunov

Redzo Rushite - Zajas; Faik Konjica - Greshnica; d-r Vladimi

Polezhinski; Milto Gura - Strelci

14.09.2016

Strumica

9 Primary schools:Marshal Tito – host schools; Marshal Tito – Murtino;

Geras Cunev; Dame Gruev – Kuklish; Vidoe Podgorec; Goce Delcev –

Veljusa; Sando Masev; Kiril Metodij – Dabile.

13.09.2013

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4.2.2. Cooperation with the State Education Inspectorate

At the Quarterly briefing with SEI on the use of the IIE instruments in the Integral Evaluation,

the inspectors shared their positive experience with piloting the IIE indicators in Integral

Evaluation implemented in 84 schools, carried out from March to September, 2016. The piloting

within the schools was intended to indicate possible need for correcting the newly developed IIE

indicators introduced in the Manual for Integral Evaluation. Results of the piloting confirmed

that the IIE indicators were properly developed and incorporated into Integral Evaluation

indicators.

4.2.3. Supervision meetings with mentors (master trainers and members from partner

organizations Loja and Sumnal) A Supervision meeting for capacity building of mentors took place on September 2016 in Skopje.

The meeting was attended by 37 mentors (29 master trainers and 8 representatives from the

partner organizations Loja and Sumnal). The meeting aimed to guide and support mentors for

conducting the up-coming mentoring meetings with SIT’s from all primary and secondary

schools and prepare them to continue the successful implementation of IIE activities in their

schools. The Supervision meeting included the following topics:

Summary of the project activities conducted over the last time period (workshops,

school visits, observation of IIE activities, student camps);

Reflection of the implementation of IIE activities;

Recommendations for future implementation of IIE activities in the schools.

The reflection session provided mentors with an opportunity to discuss and reflect the following

questions:

What successes and challenges faced the implementation of IIE activities (on personal

level as trainers and mentors, school level and educational system level)?

What would you improve in the future?

How the IIE activities should become part in the overall school life and ensure

sustainability?

At the third session, the mentors were provided with detailed guidance regarding the following

recommendations:

Using the publications and other resources in IIEP to support the implementation of

IIE activities (Indicators for self-evaluation of IIE in the school; Development of

teacher competencies needed for IIE activities; Best IIE innovative practices selected

from the Nationwide competition published on IIEP’s website);

Measuring the effects on the students in terms of development of their intercultural

competencies (using questionnaires, discussion and reflection);

Improvement of parental involvement in IIE activities. At the last session the schedule

of groups of schools (total 42 groups with 423 schools) and pairs/teams of master

trainers and staff from Loja and Sumnal were presented and specific logistic

instruction for carrying out the mentoring meetings were provided.

The mentoring meetings in the schools are planned to be delivered in October 2016.

4.2.4. Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education initiatives in the school

During this reporting period, the financially supported schools in the Grant- program continued

to implement the joint student activities with strengthened parental involvement. The support was

continuously provided with guidance from the IIEP team throughout the course of


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implementation of the activities. The support visits to the schools made by IIEP team during

implementation of the joint parents and students activities, were often used by schools to get

additional information on the administrative and financial regulation of the grant procedure. Two

schools were provided with technical equipment (photo-camera) listed within the grant-program

budget for the purpose of recording videos during implementation of IIE activities.

Continuation of the various joint activities was taking place with great commitment by the

parents during all phases: planning, implementation and promotion. The school teams that

decided to improve the school conditions for the students, worked tirelessly during the hot

summer months. For example, parents, together with their children and teachers, successfully

renovated parts of the schools for their children through a cooperative work in activities, such as:

paving the schoolyard with concrete, painting walls with murals, building eco-summer class,

plastering the school hallway, painting windows etc. These joint student activities were also

organized through a cooperative work of ethnically mixed groups of parents and teachers: sport

and fun activities, fishing classes, visiting the water-filter station etc. In addition to this, some

parents took a teaching role at different type of classes: science, art workshops, educative visits,

sport etc.

The third training for the participating schools was organized to encourage school teams to

arrange their final presentations of the implemented activities according to the IIE concept. Each

school team presented its model for promoting the IIE achievements in front of an audience

consisted of parents, students, teachers, other schools’ representatives and various educational

officials as well as municipality officials.

In August 2016, a flood devastated large parts of the municipality of Gazi Baba causing

enormous damages in the PS “Kiril & Metodij” in village Stajkovci. The team designated for

organizing joint activities in this grant-program reported that it was impossible to implement the

planned activities at all. Hence, the participation of this school in the grant-program for parental

involvement in IIE activities was terminated.

The table below shows the schools visited by the Project team including the aim of the visit.

Table 2. Visited schools with parental involvement in implementation of IIE activities

# School Aim of visit

1 PS “Krste P.Misirkov” v.Bistrica,

Bitola

Three visits to support parental involvement in IIE

activities and in-school presentation in: July and

September, 2016

2 PS “Braka Miladinovci”, Struga


activities and in-school presentation in: July, August

and September, 2016

3 PS “Nikola Karev”, Krusevo

Two visits to support parental involvement in IIE

activities and in-school presentation in: August and

September, 2016

4 PS”Kiril & Metodij”,

v. Presil/Buchin, Krusevo



September, 2016

5 PS “Mustafa K.Ataturk”, Gostivar

Two visits to support parental involvement in IIE


September, 2016


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6 PS “Hristijan T.Karpos” Kumanovo

and PS ”7 Marsi” v. Opae, Lipkovo

Two visits to support parental involvement in: IIE

activities and in-school presentation in September,

2016

7 PS ”Rajko Zinzifov”, v. G. Orizari,

Veles

Three visits to support parental involvement in: IIE

activities and in-school presentation in July, August

and September, 2016

8 PS “Blagoj Kirkov”, Veles



September, 2016

Up to the end of September 2016, the participating schools in this grant-program organized 8 in-

school presentations for promoting the achievements on parental involvement in the conducted

IIE activities, which were visited by the project team. The partnered schools “H. T. Karpos” in

and “7 Marsi” in v. Opae, which come from different municipalities i.e. Kumanovo and Lipkovo

respectively, organized a final joint promotional event with participation of ethnically mixed

parents, students and teachers celebrating their success in strengthened parental involvement in

the IIE. The other 7 schools organized their celebrations on successful parental involvement in

the IIE individually, i.e. each school at its own premises. Almost all final events were covered by

the local media.

After the finalization of the activities, each participating school was required to fill out an

electronic questionnaire, which gives the project profound perception into all implemented

activities.

The general conclusion is that parents have demonstrated great willingness to participate in the

IIE activities enabling better education and life conditions for their children. Whenever parents

are offered from the school to initiate and organize IIE activities within regular or extra-

curricular program, they gladly commit themselves towards providing better education quality to

their children.

4.2.5. Continuous support to the newly selected schools for renovation from Component 4

The IIEP team provided practical guidance to the newly selected schools for renovation in their

initiative towards promotion of the IIE activities ensuring proper implementation of the joint

student activities proposed in the Annual school plan. The IIEP team provided support to the

following schools: PS Aleksandar Zdravkovski – Jegunovce, PS Drita – Saraj and PS Rajko

Zhinzifov - Cair. The school visits and consultancy meeting with the SITs from the renovation

schools took place during the support process. The main focus of the support was on providing

feedback towards the deepening of the teacher competencies in implementing joint student

activities that are related to: a) design discovery tasks/projects that initiate high level of

cooperation and interaction among students and produce a group product; b) encourage the

students for reflection on their own experience. The efforts made during the support process

influenced the quality implementation of IIE activities in the schools and contributed to the

successful promotion of practical joint student activities during the ribbon-cutting ceremony on

the occasion of the completion of the renovation of the school.

4.2.6. Joint student sport and fun activities in ethnically mixed schools

During the month of September, the IIEP team focused its efforts on fine-detailing the Manual

titled “40 Sports Activities and Fun Games for Integration of Children and Youth”. The manual

was printed in five languages: Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Serbian and English. For


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promotion of the Manual, two events are being organized. The pre-promotional event is

envisioned to express gratitude to the children of PS “Rajko Zinzifov” in Dracevo for their

participation in the making of videos for the Manual, as well as to the entire group of IIEP

collaborators and partners which assisted the making of the Manual. The pre-promotional event

is scheduled for October 6th

, 2016.

The IIEP team also organizes a promotional event for the Manual in the City Park of Skopje by

inviting over 300 children from different schools. The event is planned to be covered by different

media outlets (TV, internet).

The IIEP team has participated in several TV interviews promoting the event and has invited

parents with children to come to the event and actively participate in the games. In this

promotional event five primary schools out of ten schools involved in the sports and fun joint

student activities were visited in order to prepare the promotional event. Teacher teams of each

school were introduced to the concept that involves sport activities taking place in twelve

stations. The promotional event fill follow the pre-promotional event and is scheduled for

October 8th

, 2016.

4.2.7. Small grants for implementation of joint student activities

As this reporting period coincided with the school summer holiday and the beginning of the new

school year, the project team was primarily focused on administrative and financial managing of

the grant documentation. Sixty grants were completely finalized, whereas 8 were partially closed

and the project is awaiting additional invoices to complete these grants as well. Three schools did

not manage to implement their activities approved in the applications, due to the difficulties

regarding planning of the activities with their partner school or lack of cooperation between SIT

members in their schools. After the finalization of the activities, each school is required to fill in

an electronic questionnaire, which will give the project a deeper perception into all implemented

activities supported by the Small Grants. So far, a total of 51 schools have finalized their

questionnaire. The other schools remain to complete the questionnaire.

4.2.8. Summer camp

In this reporting period, the project implemented a summer camp with 36 student participants and

8 teachers from 6 different schools. The selection of the schools was based on the schools’

demonstrated motivation and commitment to implementation of IIE activities.

The table below displays the schools that participated in the student camp.

Table 3. Schools participating in the student camp 1 # School Location Language of instruction

1 PS Bajram Shabani Kondovo Albanian

2 PS Tode Hadzi Tefov Kavadarci Macedonian

3 PS Kultura Matejche Albanian

4 PS St. Kiril i Metodij Bucin Macedonian, Albanian

5 PS Toli Zordumis Kumanovo Macedonian, Albanian

6 PS Hristijan T. Karposh Rankovce Macedonian

The camp took place in Pelister, Bitola, and lasted for four days. During this time, the students

had an opportunity to participate in a series of fun and dynamic activities that involved team

building exercises, communication exercises, creative workshops and sports activities. In order to

encourage greater collaboration and communication among the students, each exercise and

activity was conducted with a different mixed group of students. In each activity, special


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emphasis was put on the students’ creative expression and opportunity for exchange of

experience and opinions among them. All activities were conducted in Macedonian and Albanian

language. Besides the activities organized for the students, simultaneous activities building on

the students’ contents were organized for the teachers. Beside the information about the

experiences in the camp being shared in the participating schools, the project staff also had an

opportunity to share the experiences from the camp on the Macedonian National Television,

producing interest for the activity in the public. Additionally, in partnership with Loja, a short

documentary video was produced for the camp illustrating the energy of the camp.

During this reporting period, a second camp organized by Loja was delivered as well. This camp

took place in h. Pela, Ohrid, lasting for four days. 42 students from 4 different schools

participated in the camp, accompanied by 8 teachers. Similarly to the concept of the previous

camp, the participating students and teachers had the opportunity to get to know each other,

establish closer relations and overcome prejudices through various activities – games, interactive

creative exercises, sports activities, outdoor activities, and discussions. Again, all activities were

conducted in Macedonian and Albanian, and Loja documented the camp through another video.

Table 4. Schools participating in the student camp 2 # School Location Language of instruction

1 PS Aleksandar Zdravkovski Jegunovce Macedonian

2 PS Shemshovo Shemshovo Albanian

3 PS Bratstvo Migjeni Tetovo Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish

4 PS Lirija Tetovo Macedonian, Albanian

The evaluation of both camps showed that both the teachers and students found that the camps

were effective in addressing the existing barriers, prejudice and stereotypes among students, and

extremely successful in enabling an opportunity for the students to establish deeper connections

and friendships. In the follow up communication with the school Directors, the project staff was

informed that the information for the camp reached the wider school community, including the

parents of students who did not participate, and the interest in participating in similar activities is

evident.

4.2.9. Eco – action “Make it green again”

As a follow-up activity to the summer camp, in partnership with CBC “LOJA”, Tetovo, an eco –

action named “Make It Green Again” was organized on September 24th

, 2016. The event took

place on the Kale Fortress in Tetovo. The activity was conducted at the initiative of the CBS

"Loja" volunteers, because the issue of environmental awareness and environment pollution are

very present in the Tetovo region in the recent years. The initiative was conceived as a follow-up

activity of the summer camp held in Ohrid from 16th

-19th

September, which was attended by 42

students and 8 teachers from four primary schools from Tetovo and Tetovo region - "Bratstvo

Migjeni" and "Liria" from Tetovo and "Alexander Zdravkovski" and "Shemshovo" from

Jegunovce. The event was open to all citizens of Tetovo and a fair group willingly participated

in the eco-action. During the eco-action, a large portion of the way to Tetovo’s Kale Fortress

was cleaned. A workshop for recycling and production of decorative items, jewelry and wallets

out of waste was prepared and carried out by volunteers from CBS "Loja" for the students who

especially enjoyed this part of the activity. Despite the hard work, satisfaction and smiles were

evident on the participants’ faces. Many participants expressed their willingness to be a part of

another environmental action and were very grateful to the organizers and to all who had

contributed to the realization of the activity.


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4.2.10. IIE Certification procedure

During this reporting period, IIEP continued with technical and administrative regulation of the

certification procedure. Most of the submitted certification confirmation forms from the schools

were for gained competences of an IIE trainer (185 schools) as well as for gained competences

for practical implementation of activities for promotion of IIE for teachers (138 schools).

Seventy eight (78) schools submitted certification confirmation forms for gained competences for

practical implementation of activities for promoting IIE for school directors and professional

service staff. The table below presents the overview of the number of issued certificates.

Table 5. Number of issued certificates according to the type of the certificates

Type of certificate No. of schools who have

received certificates

No. of issued

certificates

Basic training for SIT members 421 2431

Advanced training for SIT members 110 416

Dissemination of basic training at a school level 294 11463

Trainers-Mentors 185 917

Gained competencies for teachers for practical

implementation of IIE activities 138 1672

Gained competencies for school

directors/professional staff service for practical

implementation of IIE activities

78 149

4.2.11. Participation at the International Scientific Conference

Celebrating the 70th anniversary, the Institute of Pedagogy at the University Ss. Cyril and

Methodius, Skopje invited the IIEP team to participate at the International Scientific Conference

“Pedagogy in the Modern Global Society”. The project staff presented the methodology and

pedagogic approaches for development of intercultural competencies of students applied by the

IIEP. Тhе international experts in pedagogy showed great interest in the achievements in the field

of IIE by applying the presented methodology and concept.

4.2.12. Analysis of the innovative practices for IIE applications for the Nationwide

Competition

Based on the positive findings about innovative practices described in the applications submitted

to the Nationwide Competition for Innovative Practices for IIE, the IIEP team conducted an in-

depth analysis of the 26 highest ranking innovative IIE practices (19 joint student activities, and

7 independent multicultural activities). The analysis mainly focused on the design of the task

and the used teaching methods/approaches for stimulating the students to further develop their

intercultural competencies; and on the perceptions of the teachers about the benefits and the

achievements of the students for IIE (intercultural competences).

During the analysis, the complete applications of the selected examples were reviewed into detail

(application form, worksheets, products of the students' work, photos and/or videos). The results

of the analysis are specified in the Appendix 2 - Analysis of the innovative practices for IIE.


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4.3. COMPONENT THREE: DEMONSTRATION SCHOOLS

4.3.1 Supporting School Integration Teams

In August, working meetings were held with SITs in all demonstration schools. The structure of

the participants is presented in Table 1.

Table 6. Structure of participants in the working meetings with SITs according the ethnicity

Demonstration school Participants – ethnicity

Total Macedonian Albanian Turkish

Sande Shterjoski, Kichevo 3 4 2 9

Bratstvo Edinstvo, Ohrid 3 3 2 8

Zdravko Cvetkovski, Skopje 4 2 1 7

Economic school, Gostivar 5 4 1 10

Brakja Miladonovci, Kumanovo 4 / / 4

Bajram Shabani, Kumanovo / 3 / 3

Total 19 16 6 41

During these meetings, the findings from the self-evaluations conducted in all demonstration

schools by the end of the school year were presented.

Parents’, students’ and teachers’ opinions about the interethnic integration in their schools from

the last school year were compared to those from the first year, before the start of the project

activities in the schools. It was noticed that noticeable changes have occurred in all schools and

almost in all cases. The presentation was followed by discussion about the effects of IIE

activities. The students’ and teachers’ opinions about the sustainability of the project activities

were presented and discussed with SIT representatives. The groups were also acquainted with the

institutional changes and support for the IIE activities along with grant opportunities by the

Ministry of Education and Science. The working meetings also served for further discussion of

the concept for organizing Days of Interethnic Integration.

4.3.2 Supporting Joint Students’ Activities

One school manifestation was held in the demonstration schools in September. In Ohrid, a

manifestation related to the first day at school and welcoming the first graders in the school was

organized. For the needs of promotion of the project activities and the school in front of the

wider local community, PS Bratstvo Edinstvo from Ohrid established four partnerships with

other schools from the municipality (Table 7.)

Table 7. Partnerships between primary schools from Ohrid municipality

# Partnerships between schools Activity Teachers Students

1 PS Bratstvo Edinstvo and PS

Naum Ohridski, v.Peshtani

Competition – Quiz: Knowledge of

local languages 3 24


Hristo Uzunov

Games without frontiers – fun

outdoor activities 3 24


Grigor Prlichev

Games in concrete – fun outdoor

activities 4 24


Kliment Ohridski

Bilingual workshops (language

acquisition workshops) 3 24

All groups held three joint meetings (workshops) to prepare for the joint promotional event,

which is to be held at the beginning of October in PS Bratstvo Edinstvo.


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For the Days of Interethnic Integration promotional activities, the demonstration school from

Kicevo established partnerships with the other schools from the municipality (see Table 8.)

Table 8. Partnerships between primary schools from Kichevo municipality


1

PS Sande Shterjoski;

PS Vladimir Polezhinoski

PS Milto Gura

Exploring the city fortress 5 24

2


PS Kuzman Josifovski Pitu

PS Skenderbeg

Preparing traditional foods 8 25

3


PS Redzo Rushit Zajazi

PS Faik Konica

Little olimpic games – fun outdoor

activities 5 24

4


PS Hristo Uzunov

PS Naim Frasheri

Eco workshops 3 24

All groups held at least three joint meetings (workshops) together and in the beginning of

October more workshops will be carried out. The workshops will be followed by a joint

promotional event to be held in October in PS Sande Shterjoski.

In Gostivar, the Days of Interethnic Integration are being celebrated with partnerships formed

among three secondary schools (Table 9.)

Table 9. Partnerships between secondary schools from Gostivar municipality


1 SEMS Gostivar;

STMS Gostivar Monuments in Gostivar 6 24

2 SEMS Gostivar;

SMS Gostivar Eco workshops - recycling 6 24

3 SEMS Gostivar;

SMS Gostivar



All groups held one joint meeting (workshop) together, which was used for introduction and

planning of activities. More meetings will follow in October with a closing event to be held at the

end of October.

The two demonstration schools from Kumanovo, PS Bajram Shabani and PS Brakja Miladinovci

established each the partnerships with 6-8 other schools from the municipality (Table 10.)

Table 10. Partnerships between primary schools from Kumanovo municipality


1

PS Bajram Shabani;

PS Kocho Racin

PS Krste Misirkov

Art workshops 3 24

2

PS Bajram Shabani;

PS Magdalena Antova

PS Vera Kotorka

English fun activities 3 24


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3

PS Bajram Shabani;

PS 11 Oktomvri

PS Karposh

Eco workshops 3 24

4

PS Bajram Shabani;

PS Vuk Karadzich

PS Hristijan Todorovski Karposh



5

PS Brakja Miladinovci

PS Jeronim de Rada

PS Naim Frasheri



6

PS Brakja Miladinovci

PS Brakja Ribar

PS Kongresi i Manastirit

Visit to a museum 3 24

7 PS Brakja Miladinovci

PS Toli Zordumis Life skills workshops 2 24

All groups have already implemented at least one joint workshop, and the activities will be

completed during the first half of October. The workshops will be followed by a joint

promotional event, which will be held in October in PS Bajram Shabani.

4.3.3 Supporting Joint Student Bodies

By the end of September, the procedure for election of student bodies at school level started in all

schools. The elections are following the guidelines provided by IIEP.

The manual for Democratic Participation of Students is finalized and will be published in all

three languages of instruction (Macedonian, Albanian and Turkish).

4.3.4 Capacity Building for Teachers and Professional Service Staff

In this period, CHRCR team reviewed all portfolios/applications for certification in the

demonstration schools assembled before the end of the school year.

Documentation for four types of certificates was evaluated: a) completed trainings for teachers;

b) completed trainings for SIT representatives; c) mentoring/coordination of IIE activities and d)

implementation of project activities.

A total of 739 certificates of all types have been approved by CHRCR team. Detailed list of types

of certificates for each school is presented in Table 11.Table 11. Approved certificates in the

Demonstration schools

Types of certificates

Total

Complete

d

trainings

for

teachers

Completed

trainings

for SITs

Mentor

/coord.

Impleme

ntation of

IIE

activities

Dem

on

stra

tio

n s

ch

ools

PS Bratstvo Edinstvo, Ohrid 66 9 9 80 164

PS Sande Shterjoski, Kichevo 72 13 13 79 177

PS Brakja Miladinovci,

Kumanovo 47 5 5 22 79

PS Bajram Shabani,

Kumanovo 43 7 7 26 83

SS Zdravko Cvetkovski,

Skopje 58 12 12 30 112

SEMS Gostivar, Gostivar 60 12 12 40 124

Total 346 58 58 277 739


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4.3.5 Involving parents

Two activities marked the involvement of the parents in the everyday school life in the

demonstration schools in the beginning of the new school year. First, a group of parents from

Ohrid, at the initiative of the parents’ council, helped the renovation of the sanitary infrastructure

in one of the school objects in the PS Bratstvo Edinstvo, while two classrooms were equipped

with new benches and chairs. Second, in Kicevo and Kumanovo, parents were involved in the

groups for conducting joint students’ activities within Days of Interethnic Integration activity.

Around 20 parents in Kicevo and 10 parents in Kumanovo took active part in the activities

conducted between different schools in these municipalities.


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4.4. COMPONENT FOUR: PROVIDING INCENTIVES TO SCHOOLS AND

COMMUNITIES

4.4.1 Additional school renovation project

In this period, renovation projects for thirteen Phase 5 schools were approved and tender

procedures were started for selecting the most favorable contractors for the thirteen projects.

Contracts were signed with the selected construction companies, as well as with consultant

companies for supervision of the renovation works. The difference between the estimated and

actual value of the projects after the completion of the tender procedures generated some savings.

As a result of the savings made during the renovation activities of the selected thirteen schools,

IIEP with prior approval from USAID and the EUCOM of the US Army, decided to invest these

savings into renovating additional school.

The first additional project was cleaning of mud and debris brought in the schools by the floods

and necessary remedial tasks in 5 primary schools in the municipality of Gazi Baba and

Aracinovo.

Additional two new schools were selected from the waiting list, compiled during the evaluation

process of all received application at the call announced by the Component Four earlier this year.

4.4.2 Renovation project in 5 primary schools in the municipality of Gazi Baba and

Aracinovo

On August 6th

, the Skopje region was struck by a big storm with strong wind, abundant rain and

thunderstorms which resulted in outpouring of enormous quantity of water from the surrounding

Zelezara lakes, with which several villages and settlements in the municipalities of Gazi Baba

and Arachinovo were flooded. The villages and settlements which were affected by the storm

are: v.Stajkovci, v.Stracinci, v.Singelic, v.Brnjarci, v.Creshevo, v.Bulachani, v.Indzikovo,

settlement Ekonomija, settlement Chento in Gazi Baba and v.Aracinovo in the Municipality of

Aracinovo. During the storm, enormous quantities of water, mud and soil sediment flooded the

houses, yards, schools and the agricultural lands in these villages and settlements. Besides the

huge material damage, unfortunately, more than 20 people lost their lives.

Part of the primary schools in these villages and settlements were seriously damaged. The water

together with the mud and the soil sediment penetrated into the school buildings, especially in the

basements and the first floors, so they were not in a condition to be used for the start of the new

school year.

This storm resulted in damage of the following school buildings which belong to the territory of

the municipality of Gazi Baba: PS “Cyril and Methodius“ central school in v. Stajkovci and the

satellite school in v. Stracinci; PS “25th

of May“ satellite school in v. Singelic; PS “Krste

Misirkov“satellite school in v. Brnjarci, and the primary school PS “Gjergj Kastriot

Skenderbeg“in v. Aracinovo, which belongs to the territory of the municipality of Aracinovo:

During the visits to the schools, it was evident that volunteers and representatives from the

Macedonian Army cleaned the school buildings from the soil sediment with shovels, brooms and

buckets, the waste was loaded on transport vehicles and it was transported to a landfill specified

by the municipality. After taking off the debris, washing of the floors and the walls with clean

water and hygiene products were needed, as well as preparation of the surfaces for disinfection

and pest control. After the completed disinfection and pest control, the school buildings should

be adapted for the work and stay of the students and the staff, which implies coloring of the


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ceilings and the walls with white paint and oil paint, adequately. With these activities, in part of

the schools in the municipalities of Gazi Baba and Aracinovo which were affected by the storm

on August 6th

, 2016, safe and clean environment for work and stay in the school, as well as

conditions for the start of the new school year were provided.

4.4.3 Selection of additional two schools

Additional two new schools were selected from the waiting list, compiled during the evaluation

process of all received application at the call announced by the Component Four earlier this year.

The selected schools are:

PS Hristijan Karpos from Kumanovo;

SS Mosa Pijade from Tetovo.

Both schools sent their applications to IIEP in 2016. The selection (evaluation) committee ranked

both applications in the first 20 (out of 207), but in the final selection they were not selected.

IIEP proposed to USAID and EUCOM to use the budget savings and do the renovation in these

schools in view of the facts that both schools are very active with the IIE activities, they are

ethnically mixed (students & teachers), school buildings are very old with real need for

renovations, IIEP has great cooperation with both municipalities, their SITs are very active, etc.

USAID and EUCOM approved the new selected school renovation projects.

4.4.4 Final approval of school renovation project

The last project from the selected 13 schools and the three new projects were submitted to IIEP

CoP and MCEC Executive Director for official approval. Audits of the technical designs

followed by development of Bill of Quantities (BoQ) and Scope of Work (SoW) necessary for

preparing the Requests for Offers (RFOs) were completed by the IIEP School Incentives

Coordinator (civil engineer).

Table 12. List of the approved school renovation project and three additional projects

# Region Municipality Location Name of the

school

Primary/

Secondary

school

School

renovation

project

1 Vardar Kavadarci Kavadarci Lazo Micev

Rale Primary

Installation of a

new roof and

façade on the

concert hall

2 Skopje

Gazi Baba

Aracinovo

v.Stajkovci

v.Strachinci

v.Singelic

v. Brnjarci

v.Aracinovo

Cyril and

Methodius

25th

of May

Krste Misirkov

Gjergj Kastriot

Skenderbeg

Primary

Cleaning of

mud and debris

brought in the

schools by the

floods and

necessary

remedial tasks

3 Northeast Kumanovo Kumanovo Hristijan

Karpos Primary

Installation of

new aluminum

windows

4 Polog Tetovo Tetovo Mosa Pijade Secondary Renovation of

the toilets


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4.4.5 Provision of final approval on the joint Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring

Plan (EMMP) and preparation of Annexes to the joint EMMPs

The joint EMMP prepared by IIEP in 2014 and approved by the USAID Mission Director, MEO,

AOR and BEO includes all types of school renovation projects and provides mitigation measures

for the potential adverse effect that they might have on the environment. Therefore, the same

EMMP was valid for 2016. Prior to the start of each school renovation project the Component

Four team is checking whether the proposed renovation activities comply with the joint EMMP.

Annexes were signed by the Project’s CoP and AOR for the thirteen (13) school renovation

projects stating that the prosed renovation activities are adequately and effectively eliminated or

mitigated by the approved joint EMMP.

The potential adverse effect that cleaning of mud and debris brought by the floods might have on

the environment, EMMP was amended and approved by USAID/AOR, USAID/ Mission

Environmental Officer and IIEP/Chief of Party. Prior to the start of three additional school

renovation projects, the Component Four team checked whether the proposed renovation

activities comply with the amended EMMP. Annexes were signed by the Project’s CoP and AOR

for additional three school renovation projects stating that the prosed renovation activities are

adequately and effectively eliminated or mitigated by the approved joint EMMP.

4.4.6 Signing of MoUs with the schools and municipalities

In the current reporting period, Annex of the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for three

projects and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) for two projects were prepared by the IIEP

Component Four and signed by the MCEC Executive director, IIEP CoP, mayors and school

directors. The MoUs and the Annexes to the MoUs specify the responsibilities to be met by IIEP,

the municipalities and the schools in terms of successful implementation of the school renovation

projects.

4.4.7 Announcement of tenders for selection of construction companies

In this reporting period the tender documentation was completed for four school renovation

projects. Public call for one project was published in two daily newspapers, Dnevnik and Koha,

one in Macedonian and one in Albanian language, and on the Project’s website

http://pmio.mk/category/business-opportunities/. For the three new projects, RFOs were

announced to local construction companies with whom IIEP has had great experience in

reconstruction of schools in Macedonia. The companies were invited to come to IIEP office and

take the RFO documentation. In this reporting period the tender procedures for six (6) school

renovations projects were completed. For the six (6) published tenders for renovation of schools

a total of 44 companies took the RFO documentation and 26 companies submitted their offers, or

on average 4.3 submitted offers per project. The offers were publicly opened at the IIEP’s

premises.

The IIEP evaluation committee interviewed separately the three first-ranking companies for each

of the six (6) school renovation projects. At the interviews, the bidders provided samples of the

requested materials and certificates of quality. The evaluation committee assessed the quality of

the offered materials and equipment and the capacity of the company to perform the required

task. The evaluation committee used the lowest price principle for the selection of subcontracting

companies for six (6) projects. After the evaluation committee decided which company was

successful, the entire documentation was submitted to USAID Regional Agreement Officer for

approval. The results for all 16 projects were officially posted on IIEP’s website

http://pmio.mk/category/business-opportunities/


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(http://pmio.mk/category/tender-results/). Representatives from US EUCOM (DOD/ODC)

participated in the whole process of selection and evaluation of the construction companies.

Prior to the start of the renovation activities, contracts were signed with the selected contractors.

In the reporting period the tendering procedure was completed for the 16 school renovation

projects listed below:

Table 13. List of selected contractors for school renovations

Selected contractors for school renovations

# RFO Region Municipality Location Name of the

school

School

renovation

project

Constructio

n companies

IIEP.R.

01/16 Skopje Cair Skopje

PS “Rajko

Zhinzifov”

“Replacement

of doors”

Anol Impeks

- Skopje

IIEP.R.

02/16 Northeast Rankovce Rankovce

PS“Hristijan

Todorovski

Karpos”

“Installation of

new windows”

Meda – 3,

Tetovo

IIEP.R.

03/16 Pelagonija Krusevo v.Bucin

PS “Sv. Kiril

i Metodij”

Installation of

new windows”

Drvo Prom,

Zrnovci

IIEP.R.

04/16 Skopje Gazi Baba v.Jurumleri PS “Njegos”

“Roof

reconstruction”

Anol

Impeks,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

05/16 Pelagonija Mogila v.Dedebalci

PS “Brakja

Miladinovci”

“Reconstruction

of school

building”

Ekstra

Babale,

Bitola

IIEP.R.

06/16 Pelagonija Bitola Bitola

PS “Sv.

Kliment

Ohridski”

“Reconstruction

of toilets”

Anol

Impeks,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

07/16 Polog Jegunovce Jegunovce

PS

“Aleksandar

Zdravkovski”

“Installation of

new facade”

Simak

Inzenering,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

08/16 Polog Brvenica

v.Tenovo

v.Radiovce

PS “Goce

Delcev

“Reconstruction

of gym and

adaptation of

classrooms and

toilets”

Agora

Epoksid,

Tetovo

IIEP.R.

09/16 Vardar Caska

v.Gorno

Jabolciste PS “Liria”

“Installation of

new heating

system”

Joki, Ilinden-

Skopje

IIEP.R.

10/16 Skopje Saraj v.Rasce PS “Drita”

“Installation of

new heating

system”

Joki, Ilinden-

Skopje

IIEP.R.

11/16 Vardar Veles Veles

SS “Kole

Nedelkovski”

“Reconstruction

of sport hall”

Makoterm,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

12/16 Southwest Struga Struga

SS “Niko

Nestor”

“Reconstruction

of toilets”

Simak

Inzenering,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

13/16 Vardar Kavadarci Kavadarci

PMS “Lazo

Micev Rale”

“Installation of

new roof and

façade on the

concert hall”

Simak

Inzenering,

Skopje

IIEP.R.

14/16 Skopje

Gazi Baba

Arachinovo

v. Stajkovci

v.Strachinci

v. Singelic

v. Brnjarci

PS “Cyril and

Methodius“

PS “25th of

May“

PS “Krste

“Cleaning of

mud and debris

brought in the

schools by the

floods and

SERTA,

Skopje /

Agora

Epoksid,

Tetovo

http://pmio.mk/category/tender-results/


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v.Arachinovo

Misirkov“

PS “Gjergj

Kastriot

Skenderbeg“

necessary

remedial tasks”

IIEP.R.

15/16 Northeast Kumanovo Kumanovo

PS “Hristijan

Karpos”

“Installation of

new windows”

Meda – 3,

Tetovo

IIEP.R.

16/16 Polog Tetovo Tetovo

SS “Mosha

Pijade”

“Reconstruction

of toilets”

Agora

Epoksid,

Tetovo

4.4.8 Selection of consulting companies for supervision

For supervision of the implementation of the 16 school renovation projects in the Phase 5

schools, four consulting companies were selected. Each consulting company was a supervisor to

three school renovation projects each. The supervision of the remaining four school renovation

projects will be an obligation to the respective municipality. The selected consulting companies

are outlined in the table below:

Table 14. List of selected consulting companies for supervision

Selected contractors for school renovations

# Region Municipality Location Name of the

school

School renovation

project

Consulting

Companies

for

Supervision

1 Skopje Cair Skopje PS “Rajko

Zhinzifov”

“Replacement of

doors”

MBM

Arhitekti,

Skopje

2 Northeast Rankovce Rankovce

PS “Hristijan

Todorovski

Karpos”

“Installation of new

windows”

MBM

Arhitekti,

Skopje

3 Pelagonija Krusevo v.Bucin PS “Sv. Kiril i

Metodij”

Installation of new

windows” SKIPI, Bitola

4 Skopje Gazi Baba v.Jurumleri PS “Njegos” “Roof reconstruction”

MBM

Arhitekti,

Skopje

5 Pelagonija Mogila v.Dedebalci PS “Brakja

Miladinovci”

“Reconstruction of

school building” SKIPI, Bitola

6 Pelagonija Bitola Bitola

PS “Sv.

Kliment

Ohridski”


toilets”

SKIPI,

Bitola

7 Polog Jegunovce Jegunovce

PS

“Aleksandar

Zdravkovski”


facade”

ZIM,

Skopje

8 Polog Brvenica v.Tenovo

v.Radiovce

PS “Goce

Delcev


gym and adaptation of

classrooms and

toilets”

ZIM,

Skopje

9 Vardar Caska v.Gorno



heating system”

Tele

Konstrukt,

Skopje

10 Skopje Saraj v.Rasce PS “Drita” “Installation of new

heating system”

Tele

Konstrukt,

Skopje

11 Vardar Veles Veles SS “Kole

Nedelkovski”


sport hall”

Tele

Konstrukt,

Skopje


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12 Southwest Struga Struga SS “Niko

Nestor”


toilets” ZIM, Skopje

13 Vardar Kavadarci Kavadarci PMS “Lazo

Micev Rale”


roof and facade on the

concert hall”

Municipality

14 Skopje

Gazi Baba

Arachinovo

v. Stajkovci

v.Strachinci

v. Singelic

v. Brnjarci

v.Arachinovo

PS “Cyril and

Methodius“

PS “25th of

May“

PS “Krste

Misirkov“

PS “Gjergj

Kastriot

Skenderbeg“

“Cleaning of mud and

debris brought in the

schools by the floods

and necessary

remedial tasks”

Municipality

15 Northeast Kumanovo Kumanovo PS “Hristijan

Karpos”


windows” Municipality

16 Polog Tetovo Tetovo SS “Mosha

Pijade”


toilets” in the

secondary school–

Municipality

4.4.9 Preconstruction meetings in the schools

For the implementation of the renovation activities, preconstruction meetings were organized in

the schools. The aim of these meetings was to introduce the parties involved: IIEP, the

municipality, the school, the supervisor and the contractor, to exchange contacts and agree on the

work dynamics. Sixteen preconstruction meetings were organized for the 16 projects mentioned

above. After the preconstruction meetings, the physical works began in the schools.

4.4.10 Technical acceptance of the school renovation projects

In this period, 13 school renovation projects were completed and the works were implemented as

required with the joint Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan (EMMP). No adverse

environmental impacts were caused. In this period technical acceptances were signed in 13

schools, the sites were closed and handed over to the schools. These documents were signed by

USAID/IIEP representatives, school directors, municipal representatives, subcontractors’

representatives, and supervisors agreeing that the works were completed according to the agreed

requirements. No significant problems occurred during the implementation of these projects.

4.4.11 Access of people with physical disabilities in the renovated schools

We visited the schools selected for renovation during 2016 and together with the representatives

of the SRTs checked if the schools are accessible for people with disabilities. Out of twenty

school buildings from Phase 5, 15 school buildings have entrances on the ground level without

any elevations. In five schools, the construction of access ramps, according to the signed MoUs,

is the school’s responsibility. The condition in the schools related to their accessibility for people

with physical disabilities is presented in the table below:

Table 15. Accessibility of the schools for people with physical disabilities

Condition in the schools related to their accessibility for people with physical disability

# Region Municipality Location Name of the school Accessibility for the disabled

people

1 Skopje Cair Skopje PS “Rajko Zhinzifov”

Accessible – The school

entrance is on ground floor

without any elevation


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2 Northeast Rankovce Rankovce PS “Hristijan

Todorovski Karpos”




3 Pelagonija Krusevo v.Bucin PS “Sv. Kiril i

Metodij”




4 Skopje Gazi Baba v.Jurumleri PS “Njegos”




5 Pelagonija Mogila v.Dedebalci PS “Brakja

Miladinovci”

Accessible – Access ramp will

be constructed by the school

6 Pelagonija Bitola Bitola PS “Sv. Kliment

Ohridski”




7 Polog Jegunovce Jegunovce PS “Aleksandar

Zdravkovski”




8 Polog Brvenica v.Tenovo

v.Radiovce PS “Goce Delcev




9 Vardar Caska v.Gorno





10 Skopje Saraj v.Rasce PS “Drita” Accessible – Access ramp will

be constructed by school

11 Vardar Veles Veles SS “Kole

Nedelkovski”

Construction of access ramp is

school’s obligation

12 Southwest Struga Struga SS “Niko Nestor”




13 Vardar Kavadarci Kavadarci PMS “Lazo Micev

Rale”

Accessible – Access ramp is

constructed by school

14 Skopje

Gazi Baba

Aracinovo

v. Stajkovci

v.Strachinci

v. Singelic

v. Brnjarci

v.Aracinovo

PS “Cyril and

Methodius“

PS “25th of May“

PS “Krste Misirkov“

PS “Gjergj Kastriot

Skenderbeg“


entrances in five school

buildings are on ground floor


15 Northeast Kumanovo Kumanovo PS “Hristijan Karpos”




16 Polog Tetovo Tetovo SS “Mosa Pijade” Construction of access ramp is

school’s obligation

4.4.12 Delivery of school maintenance toolboxes

The toolboxes for school maintenance were delivered to twelve schools from Phase 5, when the

renovation activities were finished.

4.4.13 Mentoring session for detailed maintenance plans and maintenance procedures in

one school

After the one-day training, all schools electronically received annexes which the SRTs had to fill

in by the mentoring session.

The SRTs were given assignment to transform from School Renovation Teams into School

Maintenance Teams, and to make:

- Team organizational structure.


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- A list of information for the technical staff.

- Annual maintenance plan and budget.

- Plan for an event for raising additional funds.

In this reporting period one individual mentoring session was held in the secondary school Niko

Nestor – Struga. Although the school did not fill the annexes, during the mentoring session all

questions that were asked by the SRT were carefully reviewed and in detail. The SRTs had to

complete and send the completed annexes after the mentoring session. The annexes were

received in the period that followed, but being partially done a final version is expected during

the next reporting period.

4.4.14 Follow up in-school meetings for schools from Phase 4

The follow-up meetings for the Phase IV schools were organized in September. The meetings

were organized with the technical staff which participated in the one-day workshop held in

November 2015, as well as with the school directors. Because of the ongoing activities in the

schools at the beginning of the school year and their tight schedule, some of the meetings

were held with one person from the technical staff and with the directors. For details pertinent

to each of the listed schools (Annex 9 -Follow-up Meetings with School Maintenance

Teams).

4.4.15 Floods response

IIEP team received funds from OFDA to provide assistance in the flooded areas. A field

assessment in the municipality of Gazi Baba, Aracinovo and IIEP was done in order to identify

the most affected houses.

MoUs with Municipality of Gazi Baba and with Municipality of Aracinovo were signed. The

following goods and materials are being distributed to the victims:

400 sets for renovation (paint, plaster, rollers, brushes etc.)

100 stoves and 40 washing machines

10 dehumidifiers


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5. LESSONS LEARNED DURING THIS REPORTING PERIOD

The involvement of the municipality in the process of planning and coordinating joint activities

between schools, proved to be the right step towards assigning a greater role to the municipalities

in terms of providing interethnic integration in schools. Thus, the concept of bringing all the

schools together in a cooperative manner for conducting joint activities as a way of collaboration

proved to be very efficient.

Partnerships among different schools from the same municipality were strengthened even more

in the given context for organizing the Days of interethnic integration. Due to physical closeness,

it was clear that the joint activities between students can be implemented even more frequently.

For instance, groups with students from different schools, from several municipalities, managed

to conduct up to nine joint meetings in short period of time for completing the planned activities

(in spite of the minimum requirement of three meetings).

If the frequent contact between students is the core objective, then schools from the same

municipality should additionally put efforts to practice such positive practices-- to provide space

for interaction and collaboration among students through join student activities among schools

within the municipality.

6. ACTIVITIES TO INCREASE PARTICIPATION OF PEOPLE WITH

DISABILITIES (PWDs)

IIEP team visited the schools selected for renovation during 2016 and together with the

representatives of the SRTs checked if the schools are accessible for people with disabilities. Out

of twenty school buildings from Phase 5, 15 school buildings have entrances on the ground level

without any elevations. In five schools, the construction of access ramps, according to the signed

MoUs, is the school’s responsibility. At the initial trainings with the selected schools for

renovation in 2016, the IIEP team stressed the importance of having functional access for

students, teachers and parents with special needs. Also, for each of the trainings organized within

the Project, it ensured that the training facility has all the necessary conditions for access for the

PWDs.


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7. ACTIVITIES IN THE NEXT REPORTING PERIOD

Crosscutting Activities

Coordination of partners.

Monitoring and Evaluation Activities

Preparation for presentation of the M&E results;

Obtaining and analyzing the results from the electronic survey with the municipalities in

cooperation with the MoES Working Group;

Participation in the regular activities/meeting of the MoES Working Group related to the

M&E of IIE;

Preparation of the final M&E report;

Field visits of activities.

Component One: Public Outreach Activities

Ribbon cutting ceremonies in renovated schools;

Forum theaters - Activities of the Creative Corners of Schools;

Public presentations of the products of the creative workshops;

A pre-premiere of the Manual “40 Sports Activities and Fun Games for Integration of

Children and Youth”;

Promotional event for the Manual “40 Sports Activities and Fun Games for Integration of

Children and Youth”;

Debate academy for secondary school students;

Days of Interethnic Integration in Education;

Regular updating of the information and publishing of news and stories about the course

of the activities via the Facebook page Integratika and the project’s webpage

www.pmio.mk.

Component Two: Capacity Building of School Management and Teachers

Delivering mentoring meetings with all primary and secondary schools;

Administrative and financial finalization of grants;

Final events of “Days for Interethnic Integration” in selected municipalities;

Briefing with SEI on the use of the IIE instruments in the Integral Evaluation;

Briefing with the National Examination Center on the use of the IIE in the training

program for school directors;

Graphic design on the third version of Manual with addendum on IIE for School Board

completed;

Results of the surveys on parental involvement in the IIE within the grant-program;

Administrative and financial finalization of the grant-program on parental involvement in

IIE;

Graphic design on Practicum for integration of IIE in regular curriculum;

Final event for joint sports and fun games with students from the 5 multilingual schools;

Promotion of the manual for joint sports and fun activities;

Implementation of “Days for Interethnic Integration in Education” in the selected 6

multilingual municipalities;

Final meetings with education officials of 10 municipalities for IIE in-depth cooperation;

Joint students activity in partnership with Sumnal - two-day project-research activity

about different cultures, involving Roma, Albanian and Macedonian students;

http://www.pmio.mk/


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Training program in partnership with CBS Loja on developing competences for work in

multicultural environment for the selected group of students, future teachers, from the

pedagogical faculties and universities in RM.

Component Three: Demonstration Schools

Open day for promotion of IIE activities will be organized in PS Bratstvo Edinstvo,

Ohrid, in cooperation with four primary schools from the municipality of Ohrid;

Closing event with participation of all primary and secondary schools from municipality

of Ohrid will be organized with presentation of IIE activities;

Joint students activities will be carried with 14 groups of students from different schools

from the municipalities of Gostivar, Kicevo, and Kumanovo;

Days of interethnic integration – promotional IIE activities will be organized in the

municipalities of Kumanovo, Gostivar and Kicevo with joint participation of

demonstration schools with the respective schools from the same municipalities;

Six working meetings/presentations for lessons learnt will be carried out (one in each

Demonstration school);

Elections of students’ bodies at school level.

Component Four: Providing Incentives to Schools and Communities

Technical acceptance of 3 school renovation projects;

Preparation of Annex 3 - Record of Compliance with EMMPs for the Phase 5 school

renovation projects;

Training for strengthening the skills for maintenance of the school technical staff and

secretaries (Module 2);

Mentoring sessions for maintenance of school building, following the completion of

training for Module 2.


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8. LIST OF APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Summary Partners’ Quarterly Reports

Appendix 2 Analysis of the Innovative Practices for IIE


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APPENDIX 1 - Summary Partners’ Quarterly Reports

1. Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM)

2. Association for Roma Community Development SUMNAL

3. Center for Balkan Cooperation “Loja”

4. Performing Arts Center MULTIMEDIA

5. Youth Educational Forum

1 Macedonian Institute for Media (MIM)

Reporting period: July1 – September 30, 2016

1. SUMMARY OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Activity 1.1.2 Production and dissemination of information materials on interethnic

integration in education (IIE)

- The total number of Integratika’s Facebook page Likes is 1043.

- The 23th

and 24th

issue of the electronic Media Digest (Mediumski informator,

Informatori mediatik) was distributed on July 8 and September 7, 2016 bringing 13

different features, stories, video pieces and other versatile content on different

activities carried out within the 4 components of IIEP to journalists and newsrooms

throughout Macedonia, as well as to audiences on social networks. As before, the

newsletter was distributed through social networks to 6 journalists’ groups on

Facebook, each gathering from 100 to 750 journalists from Macedonia, as well as to

several FB groups and fan pages that gather NGOs, activists and media and are

focused on interethnic relations and peace-building (such as the group Journalists of

Republic of Macedonia – 461 members, Новинари и граѓани во одбрана на

правото на слободно информирање – 1002 members, Македонски институт за

медиуми - МИМ / Macedonian Institute for Media - MIM – 1782 members,

bezomrazno.mk – 3791 members, aktiv.mk – 991, Заедно за мир - Së bashku për

Paqe - Birlikte Barış için - Deadun ti irinji – 833 members etc). The newsletter was

also distributed through MIM’s Twitter profile, which is followed by many

journalists and CSO activists. Also, the newsletter was distributed directly via e-

mail to almost all newsrooms in the country, and to over 50 journalists that cover

education. In addition, the newsletter was distributed to over 700 teachers in schools

throughout Macedonia.

Activity 1.1.1 IIEP Media Coverage

- At the end of September, MIM team contributed in media coverage of the event for

parental inclusion in IIE activities in the primary school “Blagoj Kirkov”, Veles.

2. IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES


integration in education (IIE)

- The 23th

issue of the electronic Media Digest (Mediumski informator, Informatori

mediatik) was distributed on July 8, 2016, bringing 6 different human interest

stories, videos and other versatile content on numerous types of activities. MIM’s

assistance included editing and proofreading of all of the stories produced for the

IIEP website and media digest.

- Integratika’s total page Likes in July is 880.

- Integratika’s total page Likes in August is 911.

- Integratika’s total page Likes in September is 1043.

- Recent Promotions on Integratika: Event Promotion “Sport & Fun for Everyone!”


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(20,064 People Reached). Boosted Post: “Take a look at some of the key

accomplishments of the USAID Interethnic Integration in Education Project”

(21,452 People Reached).

- The 24th

issue of the electronic Media Digest (Mediumski informator, Informatori

mediatik) was distributed September 7, 2016, bringing 7 different human interest

stories, videos and other interesting content on various types of activities. MIM’s

assistance included editing and proofreading of all of the stories produced for the

IIEP website and media digest.

- Preparing video presentation “Key accomplishments of the USAID Interethnic

Integration in Education Project”.

- Regular meetings with Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi

Activity 1.1.1 IIEP Media Coverage

- At the end of September, MIM team contributed in media coverage of the event for

parental inclusion in IIE activities, which was organized in the primary school

“Blagoj Kirkov”, Veles. The event was covered by the local TV Zdravkin and the

national TV Kanal 5.

3. LESSONS LEARNED

People got involved with the Integratika page more than the regular web page.

4. NEXT QUARTER ACTIVITIES


integration in education (IIE) - Monthly Media Digest

Activity 1.1.1 IIEP Media Coverage - Informal meetings with editors/ journalists

implemented

2 Association for Roma Community Development SUMNAL

Reporting period: July1 – September 30, 2016


Provided technical and administrative support for implementing certification procedure

Provided logistical support for a supervision workshop and follow up meeting of Master

Trainers

Provided logistical support for a workshop for parental involvement in the IIE activities

Implemented two school visits to support parental involvement in the IIE activities

Attended supervision workshop and follow up meeting of Master Trainers by the

Sumnal’s team members


For the period from July-September 2016, the staff from Association for Roma Community

Development Sumnal took part in these activities:

1. Implemented activities within Component Two

a) Provided support for implementing certification procedure

The role of NGO Sumnal was to give a technical and administrative support.


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Component 2: 2.1.5. Implementing certification procedure

Dates of the

activity

Place of

the

activity

(where

relevant)

What has been

implemented

Partner

organization

support

Participants,

consultants

involved

(where

relevant)

08 Jul 2016 MCEC Technical and

administrative support

Mendiks Bekir /

08 Jul 2016 MCEC Technical and


Rikardo Bekir /

31 Aug 2016 MCEC Technical and


Mendiks Bekir /

31 Aug 2016 MCEC Technical and


Rikardo Bekir /

b) Provided support for a supervision workshop and follow up meeting of Master

Trainers

The role of NGO Sumnal was to give support at the one-day supervision workshop for

master trainers, for strengthening the competencies to support SITs in professional

development activities. The aim of the supervision workshop was to continue to support

SITs during the regular group mentoring meeting. The team members from the NGO Sumnal

got prepared to lead the discussion and provide feedback on the IIE achievements and

challenges that members of the SIT are faced with when conducting and implementing the

joint student activities and how to ensure IIE sustainability.

c) Implemented field visits to support initiatives for parental involvement in

Interethnic Integration in Education in the schools

The role of NGO Sumnal was to give a logistical and technical support at the one-day

workshop organized for the parents and SIT representatives from the schools involved in the

grant program in order to provide support for implementation of the IIE parental

involvement initiatives. Also, Sumnal provided field visit to support parental involvement in

particular schools. The field visits were made in order to support the parents during the

implementation of the activities as well as during the promotion of the activities and raising

the awareness in the whole school about the importance of the parental involvement in IIE

processes. The representatives from Sumnal visited the school in v.Orizari, Veles where an

activity in which the parents together with the students and the members of the SIT were

actively involved in decorating the school windows and creating mosaic picture was

Component 2: 2.3.1 Supervision workshop and follow up meetings of Master Trainers

Dates of the

activity

Place of the

activity (where

relevant)

What has been

implemented

Partner

organization

support

Participants,

consultants

involved (where

relevant)

16 Sep 2016 h. Kontinental,

Skopje

Logistic

support

Marija

Atanasova

Master Trainers;

Sumnal (Dejan

Petrovski,

Aleksandra

Sivevska)


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implemented. In the end, an event was organized where the school shared their positive and

successful practices from the implemented activities with the parents, which will also serve

to motivate future active parental involvement in IIE activities.

Component 2: 2.4. Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education

initiatives in the school

Dates of the

activity

Place of the activity

(where relevant)

What has been

implemented

Partner

organization

support

Participants,

consultants

involved

30 Aug 2016 h. Kontinental, Skopje Logistic

support

Mendiks Bekir Parents and

SIT

representatives

19 Sep 2016 PS Rajko Zhinzifov,

Orizari, Veles

Field visit Marija

Atanasova

Members of

SIT, parents

30 Sep 2016 PS Rajko Zhinzifov,

Orizari, Veles and PS

Blagoj Kirkov, Veles

Field visit Marija

Atanasova

Members of

SIT, parents

d) Other administrative support provided Electronic input of the lists of participants at workshops - Sumnal had a task to enter

electronically in excel tables the lists for participants’ attendance from the delivered

workshops.

3. LESSONS LEARNED

-


Implementing certification procedure

Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education initiatives in schools

Mentoring meetings for SITs

Field visit for “Integration days”

Administrative support (questionnaires for parents)

Logistical support for the Practicum event

3 Center for Balkan Cooperation Loja

Reporting period: July 1 – September 30, 2016


Participation in trainings, promotional events and coordinative meetings

Supervision workshops and follow up meetings with Master Trainers attended

Administrative support for IIEP certification provided

Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education initiatives in the schools

supported

Students’ camp organized and facilitated

Follow-up activity of the camp, “Make It Green Again” implemented

Video-materials for Nationwide contest and Festival for Innovative IIE School Practices

produced

Additional activities for the IIEP’s purposes performed (supervision meetings,

administrative support, phone calls)

Translation provided (Macedonian-Albanian, Macedonian-Turkish)


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Expert and administrative support (Srgjan Vidoeski as Project Coordinator, Blerim

Jashari as Project Assistant and Bujar Luma as Project Administrator)


2.1.5. Implementing certification procedure This activity is ongoing sporadically for a longer period of time, and for this reporting period

of July – September 2016, within this activity tasks of administrative and logistical nature

were performed from the team from CBC LOJA working on IIEP. See the task performances

tables below for more details on the types of the activities conducted and the responsible

people for completing them.

Table 1 - Task Performance Table July 2016:

Place Date: Type of activity: Responsible:

LOJA’s office 06.07.2016;08.07.2016;1

4.07.2016;15.07.2016;21

.07.2016

Administrative work, Excel

tables input

Blagoja Petrovski

Table 2 - Task Performance Table August 2016:


LOJA’s office 15.08.2016 Administrative work, Excel

tables input

Gzim Osmani

Table 3 - Task Performance Table September 2016:


LOJA’s office 01.09.2016;

05.09.2016;

06.09.2016;

27.09.2016


tables input

Gzim Osmani

LOJA’s office 22.09.2016,

26.09.2016


tables input

Hatidze Qazimi

MCEC’s office 23.09.2016 Logistical work, packing

certificates

Darko Serafimoski

MCEC’s office 23.09.2016 Logistical work, packing

certificates

Hatidze Qazimi

2.3.1. Supervision workshop and follow up meetings of Master Trainers

The latest supervision workshop with the Master Trainers and the mentors from the partner-

organizations (including representatives from CBC LOJA’s side) took place in hotel

“Kontinental” in Skopje on September 16th

, 2016. The purpose of this Supervision meeting

was the preparation for the upcoming and last in the run for IIEP – mentoring meetings, as

part of the Component Two of the project. Hatidze Qazimi from CBC LOJA’s team provided

logistical support for the event.

Additional Supervision meeting at the premises of MCEC was organized on September 28th

,

2016, with presence of the mentors and master-trainers who were not able to attend the

previous one. Right after those two supervision meetings – the mentoring meetings marked

their start, thus ending this reporting period and entering October 2016.


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2.3.4. Support of whole school approach in multilingual schools, a regional level

In the frames of this activity, on August 29th

, 2016 in hotel “Kontinental” in Skopje, a

workshop titled as “Days of Interethnic Integration” was successfully conducted with

representatives from six selected municipalities and schools’ representatives in order to plan

a promotion of joint students’ activities at municipal level. Hatidze Qazimi from CBC

LOJA’s side was responsible for providing logistical and organizational support during this

workshop.

2.4. Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education initiatives in the

schools As part of this activity, on August30

th, 2016, in hotel “Kontinental” in Skopje, a workshop

was held in order to follow the progress of the chosen schools with their activities and final

presentations planned to be conducted in September 2016 – in partnership with the parents of

the students from the schools.

A team from CBC LOJA’s part consisted from Darko Serafimoski, Hatidze Qazimi,

Aleksandar Stojanovski, Gzim Osmani and Srgjan Vidoeski took part in this workshop, in

order to provide further in-school support to parental initiatives implementation.

In September 2016, the team of LOJA’s mentors successfully implemented the planned field

visits to parental involvement activities and events in the selected schools. See the table

below for details.

Table 4 - Task Performance Table:


Struga 16.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Ferija Lena

Krushevo 20.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Gostivar 21.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Hatidze Qazimi

Kumanovo 21.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Sunaj Hasani

Krushevo 22.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Darko

Serafimoski

Struga 23.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Ferija Lena

Bistrica 27.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Darko

Serafimoski

Presil 28.09.2016 Field visit, parental involvement

initiatives

Hatidze Qazimi

2.5.2. Students’ camps

Details for August 2016:

The first students’ camp planned for this project year was held and successfully completed

within the project from August 22nd

- 25th

, 2016, with students from several schools in hotel

“Molika” in Pelister. During this summer camp, Aleksandar Stojanovski from CBC LOJA

worked on filming and producing photos and video from the event, at the same time

providing logistical support for the camp together with Gzim Osmani. For one day during the

camp, Gzim Osmani also had the role of a translator from Macedonian to Albanian, and vice


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versa.

From the video materials recorded during the camp, a teaser and a main video were

produced. Written translations of the speeches from the video, from Macedonian to Albanian

language and vice versa, and from these two languages into English, were produced. The

details from the production of the video materials are listed in the tables below.

Table 5 - Task Performance Table August 2016:


Pelister 22.08.2016; 23.08.2016;

24.08.2016; 25.08.2016

Video Recording (Trailer Materials) Aleksandar

Stojanovski

LOJA’s

office

29.08.2016; 30.08. 2016 Video Production & Editing (Trailer) Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Details for September 2016:

For the implementation of the second summer camp in September 2016 and within the same

activity, a team from CBC LOJA had a coordinative meeting on August 30th

at the premises

of MCEC with the colleagues from Skopje’s IIEP office - in order to finalize the decisions

regarding the process of organizing and facilitating the September students’ camp by CBC

LOJA’s team.

This summer camp, organized by CBC LOJA’s project team, was held from 16th

until 19th

of

September in hotel “Pela” in Ohrid – the design of the program for this summer camp was

developed by trainers from CBC LOJA who were also responsible for facilitating the

workshops and delivering the content. Four primary schools from Tetovo and the Tetovo

region were part of the summer camp: PS “Bratstvo – Migjeni”, PS “Lirija”, PS

“Shemshevo” and PS “Aleksandar Zdravkovski” – three of them were represented with 8

students and PS “Bratstvo – Migjeni” with 16 (since it is the biggest school in Tetovo), and 2

teachers from each of the schools were taking part as well. The themes covered during the

camp included team work, perceptions, identities, stereotypes and prejudices, warm-up

games and outdoors activities. Since the beginning of the camp mutual cooperation and

interaction among all kids was being noticed, and as the camp progressed the communication

was getting stronger and more vivid, thus achieving the set goals.

Trainers of the camp who worked on preparation and delivery of the program and the content

of the agenda, chosen from CBC LOJA’s pool of trainers in coordination with our partners

from MCEC, were Ana Bitoljanu, Raife Jashari, Dimche Josifovski, Gzim Osmani and

Elona Bajrami Luma. Prior to the summer camp, they had two preparatory meetings held in

the premises of CBC LOJA – the first one on 02/09/2016 and the second meeting on

13/09/2016.

During this summer camp, Aleksandar Stojanovski from CBC LOJA worked on filming and

producing photos and video, at the same time providing logistical support for the camp

together with Darko Serafimoski. Ajhan Idrizi and Alban Alimi were working on translation

during the summer camp – from Macedonian to Albanian, and vice versa.

After the camp, from the video materials recorded, Aleksandar Stojanovski was working for

6 working days in total on editing and producing the videos from the summer camp. Hatidze

Qazimi provided written translation of the agenda and the invitation to the schools

participating in the camp, from Macedonian to Albanian language, and vice versa.


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Table 6 - Task Performance Table September 2016 – Summer Camp Trainers:



13.09.2016

Preparatory Meeting, Creating

Modules

Ana Bitoljanu

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Delivery of workshops Ana Bitoljanu

LOJA’s office 02.09.2016; 13.

09.2016


Modules

Gzim Osmani

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Delivery of workshops Gzim Osmani


13.09.2016


Modules

Elona Bajrami

Luma

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Delivery of workshops Elona Bajrami

Luma


13.09.2016


Modules

Dimce Josifovski

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Delivery of workshops Dimce Josifovski


13.09.2016


Modules

Raife Jashari

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Delivery of workshops Raife Jashari

Table 7 - Task Performance Table September 2016 – Summer Camp Work:



02.09.2016;

05.09.2016;

13.09.2016

Video Production & Editing

(Video - Pelister)

Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Logistical Support Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Video Recording (Video

Materials)

Aleksandar

Stojanovski


23.09.2016;

26.09.2016;

27.09.2016;

29.09.2016;

30.09. 2016


(Video – Ohrid)

Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Logistical Support Darko Serafimoski

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Consecutive Translation Alban Alimi

Ohrid 16-19.09.2016 Consecutive Translation Ajhan Idrizi

LOJA’s office 09.09.2016 Written Translation (Agenda,

Invitation)

Hatidze Qazimi

“Make It Green Again” – a follow-up activity from the summer camp

Additionally, within the same activity, the project team from CBC LOJA in partnership with

MCEC organized eco-action, named “Make It Green Again” – as a follow-up activity from

the summer camp. The event took place on September 24th

, 2016 (Saturday), with

participation of most of the kids and the teachers from the summer camp in Ohrid – and in


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addition, it was open to all interested citizens of Tetovo.

During the eco-action that lasted from 10:30 until 17:00, large portion of the way to Tetovo’s

Kale Fortress was cleaned and the whole action ended with a picnic in nature above the city,

involving all the participants and the team, who were entertained with an acoustic concert by

a local bend from Tetovo.

2.6.2. Nationwide contest and Festival for Innovative IIE School Practices One of the most anticipated events for the previous reporting quarter April – June 2016, was

the nationwide contest and Festival for Innovative IIE Practices, that was held on June 30th

,

2016.

During the festival, team from CBC LOJA worked on filming and producing photos and

video from the event, consisted of Behare Kurtishi and Gzim Osmani. After the event, in

July, Aleksandar Stojanovski was working for 7 working days on editing and producing the

two videos from the Festival: a teaser and a main video.

Gzim Osmani provided written translation of the speeches from the video, from Macedonian

to Albanian language and vice versa, and from the two languages into English, and vice

versa.Table 8 - Task Performance Table July 2016:


LOJA’s office 30.06.2016 Video Recording (Trailer

Materials)

Behare Kurtishi

LOJA’s office 30.06.2016 Video Recording (Video

Materials)

Gzim Osmani

LOJA’s office 14.07.2016 Written translation (Video) Gzim Osmani


05.07.2016


(Trailer)

Aleksandar

Stojanovski


08.07.2016;

11.07.2016;

12.07.2016;

13.07.2016


(Video)

Aleksandar

Stojanovski

Additional activities for the IIEP’s purposes

In September 2016, Aleksandar Stojanovski did a photo selection and editing for IIEP

publication on September 6th

and 7th,

2016, counted as a task of administrative support.

3. LESSONS LEARNED

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2.1.5. Implementing certification procedure

2.2.2. In-depth IIE collaboration with selected municipalities

2.3.2. Group mentoring meetings for SITS

2.3.4. Support of whole school approach in multilingual schools, on a

regional level

2.4. Parental involvement in Interethnic Integration in Education

initiatives in the schools


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2.6.6. Short videos for IIEP success stories

3.8. Internal coordination

2.5.1. Volleyball League in Tetovo

4 Performing Arts Center MULTIMEDIA

Reporting period: July 1 – September 30, 2016


Successful continuation with the implementation of the Activity 1.2.3 Creative

Workshops (SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”, Radovish, SS “Josif

Josifovski”, Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo and SS “Mosha

Pijade”, Tetovo).

Successful implementation of activity 1.2.5 Third Forum Theatre Methodology training

in Skopje, August 17th

-19th

2016, for teachers in the context of interethnic integration in

education from the schools: SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”,

Radovish, SS “Josif Josifovski”, Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo

and SS “Mosha Pijade”, Tetovo.

As part of the Activity 2.5.2 Student camp, PAC Multimedia co-organized,

together with IIPE team, a summer camp for pupils from primary schools in

the context of interethnic integration in education from August 22nd

-25th

, 2016,

in Hotel Molika, Pelister. Special sessions for creative workshops were

implemented, which included workshops on self-observation, self-confidence,

team building, stereotypes, creative thinking and creative acting.

Successful implementation of the activities 1.2.4. Creative corners, including Forum

Theatre workshops implementation in SS “Orde Chopela” in Prilep and in SS “Boro

Petrushevski” in Skopje.


During this quarter PAC MULTIMEDIA implemented project activities that are part of

Component 1: Community Outreach Activities through Activity 1.2.3 Creative Workshops

for students using art as a methodology for social change to embed diversity and

intercultural dialogue in school environment. Activity 1.2.5. Forum Theatre Methodology

training for teachers in the context of interethnic integration in education. Activity 1.2.4.

Creative corners in schools and Activity 2.5.2. Summer Camp for joint students’ activities in

the framework of the Component 2.

Activity 1.2.3 Creative Workshops for students

Successful continuation with the implementation of the Activity 1.2.3 Creative Workshops

(SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”, Radovish, SS “Josif Josifovski”,

Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo and SS “Mosha Pijade”, Tetovo).

All ten teachers are further implementing the creative workshop methodology in working

with young people (pupils) in their schools in extra curricula activities (process oriented

activities). They are leading the workshops in the following fields: Creative thinking,

introducing the culture of the others, stereotyping, communication, team work, building self-

confidence. In September all schools started with the preparation of the final product- public

presentations.


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Activity 1.2.5. Forum Theatre Methodology training for teachers in the context of

interethnic integration in education

Successful implementation of activity 1.2.5 Third Forum Theatre Methodology training in

Skopje, August 17th

-19th

, 2016, for teachers in the context of interethnic integration in

education from the schools: SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”, Radovish,

SS “Josif Josifovski”, Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo and SS

“Mosha Pijade”, Tetovo. Ten teachers from the schools mentioned above took an active part

of the Third Forum theater methodology training. The training was led by the following

experts: Goran Ilic, Keti Doncevska - Ilic and Violeta Simjanovska. All of the teachers were

actively involved in the training and they were building their knowledge and skills for

leading the Forum Theater with young people (to become Jokers for Forum Theater).

During the Third training for Forum Theater they got knowledge and skills in the following

fields: communication skills, presentational skills, the role of a joker and self-evaluation.

Activity 1.2.4. Creative corners in schools

Successful implementation of the activities 1.2.4. Creative corners involving the following

secondary schools: SS “Orde Chopela”, Prilep, SS “Dobri Daskalov”, Kavadarci, SS “St.

Kliment Ohridski”, Ohrid, SS ”Drita”, Kichevo, SS” Pero Nakov”, Kumanovo, SS ”Slavcho

Stojmenski”, Shtip and SS “Boro Petrushevski”, Skopje. In SS “Orde Chopela” in Prilep the

team of Multimedia together with the selected teachers tasked with the Creative Corner in

the school, successfully held Forum Theatre workshop with mentorship of Violeta

Simjanovska, at which 64 pupils and teachers participated as an audience. The theme of the

forum theatre was “Forbidden Love” in which six students participated and played as actors.

Another forum theater workshop with mentorship by Violeta Simjanovska was held at

ASUC “Boro Petrushevski” in Skopje as part of the Creative Corner process and 53 pupils

and teachers participated as an audience. The Theme of the forum theatre was “Interethnic

student camp” in which seven students participated and played as actors. On both Forum

theater workshops there was a fruitful discussion and many young people had a chance to

raise their voice and to present their opinion. The next quarter, the implementation of

Activity 1.2.4: Creative Corners will be finalized in the following schools: SS ”Dobri

Daskalov” from Kavadarci, SS “St. Kliment Ohridski” from Ohrid and SS “Pero Nakov”

from Kumanovo and SS “Slavso Sojmenski” from Stip.

Activity 2.5.2. Students’ camp

As a part of the Activity 2.5.2. Students’ Camp, PAC Multimedia co-organized, together

with IIPE team, a summer camp for pupils from primary schools in the context of interethnic

integration in education from August 22nd

-25th

, 2016 in Hotel Molika, Pelister. Special

sessions for creative workshops were implemented, which included workshops on self-

observation, self-confidence, team building, stereotypes, creative thinking and creative

acting. At the end of the camp, all students were involved in the final short presentations in

form of theater performances. All themes were chosen by the students and supported by the

team of experts. Special set of activities for the teachers of the selected schools were created

as well. They have been working on: stereotypes, the role of the “other”, team working, and

creating space for young people feeling confident.

Outline of the Implemented Activities

In July, PAC MULTIMEDIA implemented the following activities:

Met with the experts, involved for the creative workshops for this year ( Keti Doncevksa


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Ilic and Goran Ilic), to define the final products of the schools that will take place from

September - November;

Had meetings with IIEP team and with Vlado Karaev, in order to plan and organize all

details related to the summer camp that was held from August 22nd

-25th

in Pelister;

PAC Multimedia started with the preparation of the Forum theater program and

materials for the participants for the upcoming activities that are going to take place in

the course of the next months;

Preparation and submission of the June monthly narrative and financial reports.

In August, PAC Multimedia implemented the following activities:

Communication with the IIEP team members Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi and Sara

Kajevikj via phone and email in order to discuss and coordinate the implementation

of the project activities;

Preparing and making plans for the further activities in the upcoming months with

the schools SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”, Radovish, SS

“Josif Josifovski”, Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo and SS

“Mosha Pijade”, Tetovo;

Preparation and implementation of the Activity 1.2.5 Forum Theatre Methodology

training for teachers in the context of interethnic integration in education by

organizing the third seminar for Forum Theatre Methodology from August 17th-

19th, 2016 in Hotel Kontinental Skopje. Facilitators for the seminar were Keti

Doncevska Ilic, Goran Ilic and Violeta Simjanovska. Ten teachers from selected

schools (SS “Koco Racin”, Sveti Nikole, SS “Kosta Susinov”, Radovish, SS “Josif

Josifovski”, Gevgelija, SS “Naum Naumovski – Borche”, Krushevo and SS “Mosha

Pijade”, Tetovo), were present;

Meeting with IIEP team and with Vlado Karaev, in order to plan and organize all

details related to the summer camp that was held from August 22nd-25th, 2016 in

Pelister;

Co-organized, together with IIPE team, a summer camp for pupils from primary

schools in the context of interethnic integration in education from August 22nd-25th,

2016 in Hotel Molika, Pelister. Activities for the teachers of the selected schools

were created as well;

The team members from Multimedia that participated at the camp were: Violeta

Simjanovska-leader and facilitator and Anton Simjanovski – cofacilitator;

36 pupils from 6 different schools participated in the camp (PS “Toli Zordumis”,

Kumanovo, PS “Sv.Kiril i Metodij”, v. Presil, Krushevo, PS “Tode Hadzi Tefov”,

Kavadarci, OU “Kultura”, v. Matejche, Kumanovo, OU “Bajram Shabani”, v.

Kondovo, Saraj, OU “Hristijan Todorovski Karposh” v. Rankovce).

PAC Multimedia prepared and submitted the July monthly narrative and financial

reports.

In September, PAC Multimedia implemented the following activities:

Met with the IIEP team members Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi and Sara Kajevikj in person

and via phone and email in order to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the

project activities;

Preparing and making plans for the further activities and final products with the schools

SU “Koco Racin” – Sveti Nikole, SU “Kosta Susinov” – Radovish, SU “Josif


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Josifovski” – Gevgelija, Naum Naumovski - Borche - Krushevo and SU “Mosha Pijade”

– Tetovo);

Visited “Orde Chopela” Secondary School in Prilep where the team of Multimedia with

the collaboration of the teacher Anita Gunevska tasked with the Creative Corner of the

school successfully held Forum Theatre workshop at which 54 pupils and teachers

participated as an audience

Visited ASUC “Boro Petrushevski” Secondary School in Skopje where the team of

Multimedia with the collaboration of the teachers Eleonora Bekiri and Anka Kaevska

tasked with the Creative Corner of the school successfully held Forum Theatre workshop

at which 43 pupils and teachers participated as an audience

PAC Multimedia prepared and submitted the August monthly narrative and financial

reports

3. LESSONS LEARNED

Working with teachers in creative way is not always an easy job. We had luck to get the

teachers that have these capacities and willingness, so working in such circumstances is

pleasure for both: for young people (pupils) and for the teachers themselves.


Meetings with the IIEP team, to coordinate the implementation of activities;

Implementation of for Activity 1.2.3: Creative workshop in the schools;

Implementation of the activities 1.2.4. Creative corners;

Finalizing project activities for Activity 1.2.3 and Activity 1.2.4;

Organizing forum theaters in the selected schools.

5 Youth Educational Forum

Reporting period: July 1st – September 30

th, 2016


Activity: Certificate awarding ceremony

Accomplishments: As a final activity of the year’s curricula, the ceremony served as an opportunity to

overview and evaluate the overall effect that the membership in the debate program had

on the high school students.

Activity: YEF summer academy

Accomplishments: From August 19

th to 24

th, most of the debaters - members of the Interethnic Integration

in Education Project clubs, participated the debate sessions in this year’s Summer

Academy. They got a significant chance to upgrade their knowledge in the field of

debate

Activity: Recruitment of new members

Accomplishments:

Implementing the recruitment strategy of new members nation vide. A process that

requires both online promotion as well as on-sight introduction of the program to

students and teachers. For the purpose of the strategy we worked on a recruitment

campaign that involved several branded materials as well as online promotion.


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Activity: Training of trainers

Accomplishments: Twenty eight participants in this training participated in a capacity building activity that

YEF organizes every year in order to introduce new trainers in the program. The new

trainers are experienced debaters who have been through numerous trainings and

tournaments. Through participation at this training, they obtained a debate-trainer’s

certificate.


Implemented activities in July

The work of the debate program in the month of July is traditionally composed of planning

and organizing future activities. As already mentioned in our previous reports, all of the

members of the debate program are either high-school or faculty students, which means that

the month of July is the only time of the year when they are able to have some rest. Our

debaters were having their summer holidays and summer camps and our trainers as well.

The coordinative body was busy planning the future activities and finishing some

administrative technicalities for all the realized activities. All in all, the work of the

coordinative body in the month of July consisted of planning two events (debate track in the

YEF Summer Academy and trainings for the new capacities), and a certificate awarding

ceremony.

Table 1 - IIEP Debate Clubs

The debaters were having several activities related with their debate clubs. First of all, every

debate club organized a certificate awarding ceremony and every active debater got a

certificate for the so-far realized activities as part of the group that successfully passed the

year’s debate training for beginners.

There were several rather informal club meetings – especially reserved for debate

simulations organized by the clubs themselves.

Besides these activities, the debaters got a chance to apply for the YEF Summer Academy,

an opportunity for upgrading their debate-related and social-awareness skills. So, most of

the debate trainers were working on motivating their members to apply for the Academy,

since it is more than useful for a young person to continue with the self-developing process

throughout the entire year.

Municipality High shools part of debate clubs

Negotino Secondary School “Kiril and Metodij“

Karposh Secondary School “Orce Nikolov“

Debar Secondary School “Zdravko Chochkovski“

Centar Secondary School “Josip Broz Tito“

Veles Secondary School “Dimitrija Chupovski”

Tetovo Secondary School “Nikola Stejn”

Gostivar Secondary School “Gostivar “

Kratovo Secondary School “Mitko Pendzukliski”

Struga Secondary School “Niko Nestor”

Secondary School “Ibraim Temo”

Kicevo Secondary School “Mirko Mileski”


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Implemented activities in August

In August, the debating program of the YEF had three main focus points. Namely, the

coordinative body was working on the program structuring for the debate track of the

YEF’s Summer Academy as well as constructing the plan for the upcoming process of

recruiting new members and organizing the final event for the IIEP.

Most of our trainers were involved in the process of choosing the most suitable content for

the debate track of the Summer Academy through analyzing every topic covered in the

debate year’s curricula separately. Another part of the activities of the coordinative body

were the two big on-going processes that took place in the month of August: the recruitment

plan in which several approaches to the new potential members were considered, and the

final decision making process about the direction of the organization of the Debate

Academy planned to happen in October.

Debate curricula and activities conducted:

In the month of August the debate clubs held several meetings regarding their upcoming

activities and participation in the tracks in the Summer Academy.

While the debaters were applying and waiting for the results of the application process, the

panel of the debate trainers was focused on analyzing the year’s curricula and deciding

which topics should be intensively covered within the sessions on the Debate track, in order

to provide sustainable knowledge transfer among our members.

Table 2 - IIEP Debate Clubs

Summer Academy

Date: 19-24 August

Location: Ponikva, Kocani

Number of participants: 110

From August 19th

to 24th

, most of the debate members of the Interethnic Integration in

Education Project clubs, participated at the debate sessions in this year’s Summer Academy.

They got a significant chance to upgrade their knowledge in the field of debate.

The content of the offered trainings was the following:

- how to manage a debate club;

- how to organize a public event;

- how to train debate;

- how to judge a debate; and

- basic training for the British parliament debating style.

Municipality High shools part of debate clubs

Negotino Secondary School “Kiril and Metodij“

Karposh Secondary School “Orce Nikolov“

Debar Secondary School “Zdravko Chochkovski“

Centar Secondary School “Josip Broz Tito“

Veles Secondary School “Dimitrija Chupovski”

Tetovo Secondary School “Nikola Stejn”

Gostivar Secondary School “Gostivar “

Kratovo Secondary School “Mitko Pendzukliski”

Struga Secondary School “Niko Nestor”

Secondary School “Ibraim Temo”

Kicevo Secondary School “Mirko Mileski”


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Implemented activities in September

Traditionally, September is an extremely busy month for the Debate Program of Youth

Educational Forum, but this one was especially essential as we embark to organize the first

ever debate academy. Apart from the academy we focused on three other main processes

which we traditionally do every September. The coordinative body is focused on four

following main aspects:

Implementing the recruitment strategy of new members nationwide. This process requires

both online promotion, as well as on-sight introduction of the program to students and

teachers. For the purpose of the strategy we worked on a recruitment campaign that

involved several branded materials as well as online promotion.

The second key aspect of the program is to prepare the new trainers for their upcoming

responsibilities. As it is a key process to renew our body of trainers, each year we organize

a training of trainers where we teach the new trainers how to be both educators and mentors

to the new debaters.

The third key aspect is logistical organization of the debate clubs in all 11 cities where YEF

has an office. This is a process where we make sure that each office has a set of trainers that

will be able to tend to the needs of the new debaters. Additionally we make sure that the

trainers have the proper environment and materials they need in order to conduct weekly

lessons and sustain a debate club.

Training of trainers

Date: September 24th

-25th

Location: Youth Educational Forum, Skopje

Number of participants: 28 participants

The training of trainers is a capacity building activity that YEF organizes every year in

order to introduce new trainers in the program. The new trainers are experienced debaters

who have themselves been through numerous trainings and tournaments that participate in

the training in order to get certificated to be debate trainers.

The training included lessons for:

- Recap of the overall debate curricula;

- Ethical code of the debate trainers;

- Judging labs;

- Process for certifying new debate trainers.

Although the event was funded by a different donor, it was attended by members of the

IIEP debate clubs.

3. LESSONS LEARNED

The debate program was included in organizing a lot of major events and processes which

have put a lot of strain on the coordinative body. In the future we should be more open

when seeking help and delegating responsibilities with the members of the debate program

in order to use the full potential of the program.


- Local Debate tournament in Veles

- IIEP Debate Academy


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APPENDIX 2 - Analysis of the Innovative Practices for IIE

Table 1 shows which interactive methods/approaches were used in the two categories of IIE

activities – joint and independent multicultural. In the analyzed examples, the most common

learning is the one that is achieved through projects/research/ problem solving, and it takes up

2/3 of the analyzed activities. It was much more frequently used in the joint activities (in 16 out

of a total of 19), than in the independent ones (only one out of the 7 independent activities).

Second most common activity is the role play/dramatization, which was used in every fifth

activity (5 out of 26 activities). It was more frequently used in the independent activities. Such

selection of methodical approaches is expected in view of the fact that it was emphasized for the

methods to be interactive, and it seems that the teachers are "on a safe ground" when the activity

requires practical performances, and not only intellectually engagement. The choice is also

rational from the aspect of the type of the activity (joint or independent), because the work on a

project/research is suitable for team work where the language barriers are lower than in the other

types of activities.

Table 1 – Types of methods/approaches used in joint and multicultural activities

Methods/approaches

Joint activities Independent

activities

Total

1. Learning through projects/ research/

problem-solving

16 1 17

2. Role-playing and dramatization 2 4 6

3. Small and large group discussions 1 1 2

4. Texts or situation analyses 0 1 1

Total 19 7 26

Table 2 shows the results of the analysis of the design of the task in terms of the volume and the

complexity of the task and the engagement of the students. The analysis showed that the tasks

contain different levels of volume and complexity in terms of the demands from the students.

The table shows the results on three levels wherein the first level includes tasks of greater

complexity in which the students are asked to find a solution to a certain problem, unlike the

third level of tasks which comprises simple requirements such as gathering of information on a

certain topic and their presentation. According to the results, the highest number (slightly more

than half) tasks belong to the first, highest level of complexity. Every fifth task belongs to the

lowest level of complexity. Nearly all (6 of 7) tasks in the independent activities belong to the

highest level of complexity. Nearly equal number of joint activities had tasks from the first and

second level, and less frequently from the third level.

Table 2 – Volume and complexity of the task

Complexity levels Joint

activities

Independent

аctivities

Total

The students are encouraged to be

cooperative, creative, to form critical

opinions and to solve problems

Level 1 8 6 14

Level 2 7 7

Level 3 4 1 5

Total 19 7 26

The results presented in Table 3 (given below) show the benefits and the achievements of the

students (competencies) identified by the teachers. 17 different types of benefits for the students


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were identified, which were later grouped into three categories - knowledge and understanding

(3), skills (5) and positions (9) in terms of the IIE. According to the observations of the teachers,

in the category knowledge and understanding, the most prevalent benefit is the "enhancing the

knowledge pertaining to the cultures and traditions of other ethnicities", which is present in 13

practices (8 joint and 5 independent multicultural activities). In the joint activities, а common

benefit is also the "learning of words in other languages." In terms of the skills, the predominant

benefit is "the cooperation and interaction with students from other cultures" that is present only

in the group of joint activities, or more precisely in all 19 such activities. In almost half of the

joint activities, the stated benefit is "critical opinion, decision making and problem solving”,

which confirms that the teachers applied tasks of open type with more complex requirements,

which in combination with the cooperation encourage these skills. In the independent

multicultural activities, the most prevalent benefit is the "creativity and imagination" present in 5

out of 7 practices. In the category “positions” most of the benefits (17) refer to "establishing new

friendships among the students which continue after school", which also belong to the joint

activities. The aspect pertaining to the joint activities is expected, in view of the fact that one of

the key objectives of these activities is the cooperation and interaction among the students of

different ethnicities. In the category “positions” the frequently present benefits are "developing a

sense of respect, trust and acceptance in terms of other cultures" and "recognition and acceptance

of the mutual similarities and differences", and they apply equally to the joint and the

independent multicultural activities. Significant are the benefits in the group of independent

multicultural activities which pertain to the decreasing/dealing with the challenges of

discrimination (4 out of 7).

Table 3 – Perception of the teachers in terms of the benefits and the achievements of the students

Benefits of the students Joint

activities

Independent

activities

Total

KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING

1. Familiarization with the cultures and the

traditions of the other ethnic groups 8 5 13

2. Learning words in other languages 6 / 6

SKILLS

1. Cooperation and interaction with students

from other cultures 19 / 19

2. Communication – active listening, joint

discussion and respecting the ideas of others 10 / 10

3.

Critical thinking, decision-making and

problem-solving 9 2 11

4. Conflict resolution 1 1 2

5. Creativity and imagination 8 5 13

POSITIONS

1. Establishing new friendships which

continue after school 17 / 17

2. Developing a sense about the value of the

personal culture and a positive cultural

identity

/ 1 1

3. Developing a sense of respect, trust and

acceptance of the other cultures 7 4 11

4. Recognition and acceptance of the mutual 4 5 9


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similarities and differences

5. Recognizing/decreasing prejudices and

stereotypes about the other ethnic groups 5 2 7

6. Recognizing/dealing with the challenges of

discrimination / 4 4

7. Developing tolerance 2 / 2

8 Developing solidarity and empathy in a

humanitarian crisis 1 / 1

9. Providing equality and equal rights 2 / 2

10. Overcoming language barriers 5 / 5

MCEC_IIEP Quarterly Report #19 Jul_Sep 2016

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