Global Education Coalition

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Key Information

The Global Education Coalition launched by UNESCO, is a network and platform for collaboration and exchange to protect the right to education during this unprecedented disruption and beyond. It brings together more than 140 members from the UN family, civil society, academia and the private sector to ensure that #LearningNeverStops.

Coalition members rally around three flagships, namely connectivity, teachers and ​gender, as well as support specific causes including the educational recovery following the deadly explosion in Beirut. All Coalition members are encouraged to pledge for the protection of learners’ personal information, privacy and security.

The Global Education Coalition is an open partnership, and UNESCO is inviting expressions of interest from organizations interested in joining our COVID-19 response to ensure the continuity of education for all learners. What binds the coalition is a commitment to help countries assure the inclusive and equitable provision of distance education. Interested organization should clearly specify what free support, tools or services they can offer countries that might help them extend educational opportunities during periods of school closure. Emphasis is placed on ‘free’. The coalition seeks to broker solutions with country needs and, in the current emergency context, all solutions listed on the coalition platform should be available free of charge.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse/globalcoalition

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

123 additional organizations

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

  • Post-secondary
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Early childhood development
  • Other
  • Remote Learning
  • Transition from school to work

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning
  • Vocational training

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence
  • School violence
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • Civics education
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Empowerment
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Community leaders, Fathers, Girls in school, Mothers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Pre-school
  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
  • Vocational
  • Tertiary

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

  • Community mobilization
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments

Curriculum/learning

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

Educational Technology

  • Computer-assisted learning
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
  • Online training

Food/nutrition

  • Community food production

Health and childcare services

  • Adolescent-friendly health services

Increased availability of learning materials

  • Textbooks (digital)

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Teachers as mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies
  • System-wide review and reform

School-related gender-based 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
  • Media campaigns
  • Work with community leaders

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • STEM - in the classroom
  • STEM - outside the classroom

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Empowerment training

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Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased enrolment in primary school
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased literacy
  • Increased numeracy
  • Increased primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased secondary school completion
  • Increased secondary school enrolment
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition

Cross-cutting goals

  • Changed social norms
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Maysoun Chehab
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
m.chehab@unesco.org