Pakistan: Expanding equal access to learning during coronavirus

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Key Information

In May, Pakistan received a US$20 million GPE grant to strengthen the federal and provincial governments’ capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 crisis while building resilience to future threats. While the GPE program targets the entire country, the focus will be on vulnerable children, particularly girls, who live in remote areas with limited access to technology.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

South Asia

Pakistan

Activity URL

https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/pakistan-expanding-equal-access-learning-during-coronavirus

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Ministry Affiliation

No ministry specified

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Remote Learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Literacy
  • Numeracy

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

3 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • 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

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (paper)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
  • Textbooks (paper)

Policy/legal environment

  • System-wide review and reform

Reducing economic barriers

  • Addressing cost of school supplies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Teaching

  • Hiring more female teachers
  • 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

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved health - other
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced poverty/increase household well-being