The Pan-African Conservation Education (PACE) Impact Report has been published and highlights some fantastic impact.

The Pan African Conservation Education (PACE) project is Tusk’s flagship environmental education programme. PACE provides teachers and learners with the ideas, information, and training they need to make a difference in their communities and to protect Africa’s wildlife and fragile ecosystems.

PACE provides educators with resources and training to help them integrate conservation education into their teaching. Central to PACE is a multi-media education pack – books, action sheets, educator guides, posters and videos – and these are provided free of charge to formal and informal educators, in schools and conservation organisations across Africa.

As Tusk’s flagship conservation education initiative we are incredibly proud of the impact it has made. We recently commissioned an Impact Report around the effect of PACE and are thrilled with the findings!

Fifty seven PACE users and distributers from 13 countries (Botswana, Cameroon, DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) completed a 50 point questionnaire.  Eight 30 minute interviews were also conducted, with eleven key PACE users and distributers. The interviews discussed and dug deeper into the responses given in questionnaires.

The feedback for all PACE resources was overwhelmingly positive. Some of the wonderful comments included:

“The children receiving these materials are proud of them and nurture these materials.”

“The visual impact is priceless”

“All our school groups say they are brilliant”

“They bring the lessons to life”

“PACE resources are incredibly educative and high quality, they are rich with information, and I recommend them greatly”

For more details around the report and to find out more about PACE, visit the dedicated PACE WEBSITE

“PACE has been absolutely amazing, without it we would be 10 years behind”

Alistair Sinclair, VulPro