COVID-19 Response: Inclusive Education

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Key Information

By prioritising mental health, psychosocial and protection activities, we’re focusing on keeping children safe during this rapidly-changing and challenging time. We’re giving educators the understanding, skills and tools they need to integrate psychosocial support into their work – not just during this immediate crisis, but throughout the recovery phase and beyond.

To ensure that we can keep children learning throughout this crisis and beyond, we’re drawing on the experience and expertise we’ve developed from our existing education programming, including creating technological solutions for out-of-school youth, and encouraging the use of versatile learning resources that can be accessed anywhere.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria, Rwanda

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

MESHGuides

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Emergencies and protracted crises

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • Referrals to health services

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home