Addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and women's education in Africa

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Key Information

The African Union International Center for Girls and Women’s Education in Africa (AU/CIEFFA) successfully hosted two webinar meetings on the 7th and 20th of May 2020 with the topic “Addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on girls and women’s education in Africa”. The 1st and 2nd Editions of the webinar were held in English and French respectively and moderated by Dr. Rita Bissoonauth, Coordinator of the AU/CIEFFA and Simone Yankey-Quattara Senior Policy Officer at the AU/CIEFFA. The webinars were attended by experts from the Ministries’ of Education and Gender from Sierra Leone, Uganda, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and Cote d'Ivoire, who all shared the impacts the pandemic is having on the delivery of education in their countries and the strategies they are employing to promote continuous learning for students especially girls.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Middle East & North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa

Activity URL

https://au.int/en/pressreleases/20200520/african-girls-are-high-risk-abuse-due-school-lockdowns-related-covid-19

Government Affiliation

Unknown

Years

2018 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

N/A

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

Adapted

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School facilities
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting areas

  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Gender equality
  • Other
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

All 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

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
  • Online training

Life skills education

  • Gender, rights and power

Other

  • Other activities to end child marriage (not captured above)

School-related gender-based violence

  • Anti-violence policies and codes of conduct

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced child marriage
  • Reduced violence against children in the home