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59 DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION • Management staff in charge of bilingualism • Teachers and trainers of the Arabic language and of subjects taught in Arabic from the institutions in charge of initial and in-service training of primary school teach- ers – 22 from les Écoles Normales d’Instituteurs (ENI), 4 from les Écoles Normales Supérieures (ENS), ISESCO Regional Pedagogical Centre • Managers in charge of curricula and textbook design • Arabic-speaking and bilingual inspectors and educa- tional advisers. Cost The overall cost of the project is US$657,000, financed through donations from IsDB/BADEA US$277,000; ATCT, Tunisia US$250,000; and a commitment from Chad of US$130,000. Duration The project will run for 36months, beginning inMay 2017with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. The launch seminar took place in August 2017 in N’Djamena, Chad. Organizational structure of coordination and management The coordination and management of the project will be provided by the following structures: Steering committee The project coordination and steering committee comprises the Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion (Chad) and ATCT–CIFFIP (Tunisia). IsDB will attend the steering committee meetings. Project management cell An ad-hoc project cell has been planned as follows: • Chadian party (MENPC), including a national project coordinator and an assistant coordinator as well as an assistant facilitator, responsible for technical and admin- istrative aspects • Tunisian party, including a senior coordinator in charge of the organisation, planning, coaching, monitoring and evaluation aspects; an ATCT focal point and a CIFFIP focal point. Success The first successful activity was the study visit of the six Directors General of the Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion, Tunis, which took place in November 2017. During this fruitful meeting, the establishment of a plan for the operationalisation of a functional strategy of bilingualism in Chad was completed, with the assistance of a Tunisian expert in bilingualism. All training modules have been validated by an expert from the Arab Organization for Education Culture and Science (ALESCO). In addition, three broad activities were carried out in early 2018: • The training in curriculum engineering of inspectors and agents of the National Curriculum Centre (CNC) • The training in textbook engineering of inspectors and agents of the CNC • Strategy launch to implement bilingualism in Chad. Conclusion This RL project is one of the levers of active SSC initiated by IsDB in its new direction. As bilingual education is one of the priority objectives of the Chadian Government, the project has consolidated its aims, particularly in paral- lel with the national strategy for the implementation of Arabic-French bilingualism. The project is based mainly on Tunisian competencies, demonstrating capabilities and effi- ciency in the field of training educators in engineering and in adopting foundation of life skills for sustainable develop- ment in general. For IsDB, this project is an effective model for advancing the principles of SSC among its member countries and for demonstrating its role as a catalyst for exchanges between those countries. The Directors General of the Ministry of National Education and Civic Promotion, Chad, visiting the National Centre of Technology in Education, Tunisia, November 2017 Image: ATCT