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ECHO BRAVO! Training, Consultancy, Publications, Project management.
Echo Bravo! stands for Education Base, or even for Education without Borders. Echo Bravo! is an organisation of students, teachers, researchers and consultants who work in education in East Africa, the Great Lakes, Sudan and beyond. Based in Uganda, Echo Bravo! draws on experience from Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and DR Congo.
What is echo Bravo!?
Echo Bravo is a Consultancy organisation specialising in Education and Training in difficult circumstances, whether slow-burn situations such as in displaced camps and slum areas or in situations of crisis during and after civil conflict and natural disasters.
Echo Bravo bridges the gap between humanitarian intervention (such as emergency training) and development, recognizing that there is no quick fix for good education and training. Echo Bravo is comfortable working in multi-cultural settings and working with individuals, groups and government authorities.
Echo Bravo designs, implements and evaluates projects. At the programme level, Echo Bravo also advises and assists you to develop sound educational policy. Echo Bravo carries out surveys and research using local teams familiar with the area and the people we work for.
Echo Bravo has many years educational experience, especially work for youth, refugees, displaced people, street children and children affected by the AIDS epidemic. Echo Bravo will work anywhere and currently has offices in Northern Uganda.
Echo Bravo has carried out consultancies for - or managed projects - for the British Council, DfID, European Commission, and many NGOs. Echo Bravo’s staff have worked for and with UNDP/UNOPS, UNHCR, UNESCO-PEER, UNICEF.
Echo Bravo has provided advice for new NGOs setting up, training for NGO staff, guided an NGO adapting to changing circumstances, provided management for an NGO for an interim period and is currently implementing a project for British DfID.
It is a basic principle of Echo Bravo that it also provides capacity-building for all with whom it works. All field managers and most staff of Echo Bravo are nationals of the country they work in. A particular strength is using youth teams to train their peers.
Who do we work for?
Youth
Echo Bravo has a special focus on youth and has set up or supported youth clubs, youth magazines and youth FM radio. Echo Bravo has provided and implemented itself programs for Children and Youth affected by the AIDS epidemic and by war, including ex-militias, youth in and out of school, working or unemployed.
We specialize in providing peer-educators for Life Skills and HIV/AIDS prevention among youth.
Those who find it difficult to get education
Echo Bravo has worked extensively with refugees, returnees, displaced people, and, importantly with those who were trapped behind the lines or isolated in occupied areas (the ‘stayees’). In Uganda we teach young women who had been abducted by the LRA. They now learn following an accelerated (‘catch-up’) primary learning programme. Their babies are looked after in a crèche while they are in class.
This includes the normally unreached: the unemployed or partly employed who have never completed their education, housegirls and houseboys, young people with no means to go to normal schools, those who are normally missed out, passed over or ignored. This can be by accelerated and catch-up education, or improvement of their language and communication skills.
Civil servants, NGO employees, Self-employed
Echo Bravo provides courses (both direct and by distance methods) to upgrade the Communication Skills of Government staff and NGO workers as well as the self-employed. We train NGO workers in all aspects of report-writing, project proposal design and writing. This appeals particularly to women’s NGOs.
Teachers
Echo Bravo supports and trains teachers by direct and distance education methods. We train emergency teachers on the job where the teaching force needs to be rebuilt and can do this in English, French, Swahili and Arabic.
Echo Bravo Languages
Echo Bravo has a special objective which is to improve the quality of language and communication skills at all levels, including oral work designed for those such as radio announcers who need oral skills. There is another emphasis on conversion from Arabic or French to working in English. We teach English, French, and Swahili in our different centres. There is a special emphasis on helping people to know their existing level using tests we have developed.
Contact
Echo Bravo is led by its Consultant Director Barry Sesnan whose c.v. and experience can be found on barrysesnan.site.voila.fr For professional work in any of these fields please contact: bsesnan@yahoo.com
Because of its long presence in the region Echo Bravo can draw on experienced professionals in all the counties areas where it currently works.
In the meantime you can reach us at [+256 757 102987]. We are looking forward to hearing from you. You can also contact us at our e-mail address: lapollo7@email.com
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