DUBAI // Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid, Crown Prince of Dubai, has awarded the 2014 Unesco-Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Prize for Outstanding Practice and Performance in Enhancing the Effectiveness of Teachers as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations for World Teacher’s Day.
The prize, created in 2009, is awarded every two years to projects that make an exceptional contribution to the improvement of teaching quality, especially in developing countries or in disadvantaged communities.
The prize is worth $270,000 (Dh990,000) and is divided between three winners. This year the prize was given to Oxfam Novib and Education International (Belgium), SOS Villages d’Enfants (Madagascar) and the ProEd Foundation (Panama).
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