COVID-19 Response: Inclusive Education

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Key Information

By prioritising mental health, psychosocial and protection activities, we’re focusing on keeping children safe during this rapidly-changing and challenging time. We’re giving educators the understanding, skills and tools they need to integrate psychosocial support into their work – not just during this immediate crisis, but throughout the recovery phase and beyond.

To ensure that we can keep children learning throughout this crisis and beyond, we’re drawing on the experience and expertise we’ve developed from our existing education programming, including creating technological solutions for out-of-school youth, and encouraging the use of versatile learning resources that can be accessed anywhere.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria, Rwanda

Activity URL

https://www.vsointernational.org/our-work/inclusive-education/covid-response

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

MESHGuides

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
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Remote Learning
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Social and emotional learning
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Digital literacy
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some 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
Access to school
  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
Curriculum/learning
  • Gender-sensitive curricula
  • Increased availability of learning materials
  • Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
Health and childcare services
  • Adolescent-friendly health services
  • Referrals to health services
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • Teachers as mentors
Other
  • Other activities to address/end violence (not captured above)
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Safe channels/mechanisms for reporting 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
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • 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
Women's empowerment programs
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals
  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced violence against children in the home