Safe Back to School: A Practitioner's Guide
- A Advocacy Campaign/Project
? Activity Status: Unknown
Key Information
As governments prepare to reopen schools and other learning sites, ministries and school communities must minimise the risk of transmission of COVID-19 within learning spaces and address the learning inequalities and protection concerns exacerbated by COVID-19 school closures, particularly for girls and other marginalised groups. Lessons learned from the COVID-19 school closures must inform disaster and emergency preparedness for future outbreaks of COVID-19 alongside other contextually specific hazards that might further jeopardize children’s rights to learn, be safe and survive.
Program teams can use this guide to inform the planning and implementation of activities to support an integrated, participatory, safe return to school for the communities they support. The guide aims to be a user-friendly, practitioner-focused tool that outlines the key steps needed for a coordinated, inclusive, all-hazards approach to school reopening and links to further guidance where appropriate.
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Global
Activity URL
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/safe_back_to_school_guide_16.5.20.pdf
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 -
Partner(s)
Not applicable or unknown
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19Geographic Scope
Global / regionalMeets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES
UnknownAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Primary enrollment
- Secondary Enrollment
Quality
- School facilities
- School quality
Cross-cutting areas
- Community sensitization
- COVID-19 Response
- Emergencies and protracted crises
- Gender equality
Program participants
Other populations reached
Not applicable or unknown
Participants include
Not applicable or unknown
Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
- Community mobilization
- General awareness-raising/community engagement
- School management committees
Facilities construction/improvement
- Construction/improvement of classrooms
Life skills education
- Gender, rights and power
School-related gender-based violence
- Safe and welcoming schools
- 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
- Work with community leaders
Teaching
- In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
Women's empowerment programs
- Advocacy/action
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
- Increased school enrolment (general)
- Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
- Improved critical consciousness
- Improved mental health
- Improved nutrition
- Increased advocacy/civic engagement
- Increased agency and empowerment
- More equitable gender attitudes and norms