ECO SCHOOLS kENYA CHAPTER

The Kenya Organization For Environmental Education [KOEE], in collaboration with the Danish Out-Door Council [DOC] and with funding from The Danish International Development Agency [DANIDA] is currently implementing an Eco-schools pilot project in Nyanza.

Twelve schools are involved in this pilot project and it is expected that it will spread to the entire country in a short while. This will be the second such project in Africa.

The project has been a big success so far as per the preliminary evaluation. The participating schools are carefully going through The Steps of Becoming an Eco-school with the close guidance and supervision of KOEE.

All the twelve schools have successfully implemented various micro-projects, which are expected to serve their intended purposes and also act as Learning resources both for the school and the wider community.

Updates of this pilot project can be found in the recently launched: ‘ECO-SCHOOLS KENYA NEWSLETTER’ Which is a quarterly newsletter published by The Kenya Organization For Environmental Education.[KOEE].

EcoSchools Awards Programme
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In Kenya, schools that register to the Eco-schools program must submit report/ criteria for evaluation showing how they have improved the quality of environmental education and management in their school. Schools will then be awarded with a green flag for their effort.

Environmental Issues
Environmental Issues Picture Gallery
Some of the environmental issues addressed by the EcoSchools programme are

School-Community Cooperation
School - Community Cooperation Picture Gallery
The Eco-school strategy applies five key components of Environmental Action Learning (EAL) namely; Environmental policy, cross-curriculum teaching and learning, micro-projects, school-community partnerships and Networks and a number of benefits can arise from implementing this strategy, both to schools and the wider community.

Micro Projects
Micro-Projects Picture Gallery
The eco-school programme attaches a lot of value to micro-projects since they offer unlimited opportunities for the learners to develop their knowledge, and skills needed to make responsible decisions about environment.

Trainings & Seminars
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An Eco-school is a school that has developed and adapted an Environmental Policy to guide its activities; hence qualifies to be referred to as an ‘Environmental Friendly school’.