Togo COVID-19 Education Response

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I Inactive

Key Information

The development objective of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Education Response Project for Togo was to increase access to distance learning in grades 1 to 9 and support the safe and effective re-opening of schools. The project comprises of three components: (i) ensuring education continuity will establish mechanisms to cope with the immediate impacts of school closures, (ii) supporting safe schools reopening and student re-entry objective is to support government in the re-opening of schools and keeping learners safe and (iii) project management, capacity building, and monitoring and evaluation objective is to support project management costs, including staffing of the project coordination unit (PCU), supervision, and project audits, as well as technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation (including the setting up of a geo-enabling method), reporting, communication, training, operating costs, and strengthen lessons from COVID-19 crisis. The program Theory of Change (TOC) targeted specifidally girls through media campaigns. The program supported parents and caregivers to be involved in home-based schooling and able to monitor children at home so to ensure effective distance/home-based schooling and relay gender-based messages through sensitization campaigns aimed to increase awareness on the importance of girls’ education and spread gender-based messages aimed to reduce the negative impacts of school closures. These messages targeted all community members, with a focus on girls.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Togo

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Togo

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2022

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Ministry of Primary, Secondary, and Technical Education and Crafts / Ministère des Enseignements Primaire, Secondaire, Technique et de l’Artisanat (MEPSTA)

Funder(s)

Togo COVID-19 Education Response

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Attainment

  • Primary completion
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

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

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Other caregivers

Participants include

  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • School management committees
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Educational Radio or Television Programs
  • Textbooks (paper)

Reducing economic barriers

  • Vouchers/grants

School-related gender-based violence

  • Safe and welcoming schools

Social/gender norms change

  • Media campaigns

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms