Planning for School Reopening and Recovery After COVID-19

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

Most governments around the world have temporarily closed schools in an attempt to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have launched distance learning programs and are beginning to plan for recovery, a phase that involves much more than reopening the gates and readmitting students. 

The short and accessible briefs collected here draw on rigorous evidence relevant to the COVID-19 emergency to formulate recommendations for policymakers on five critical dimensions of school reopening and recovery.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.cgdev.org/publication/planning-school-reopening-and-recovery-after-covid-19

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

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
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School facilities
  • School quality
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Early/child marriage
  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Food/water security
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, 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
  • Fathers
  • Mothers
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement
Curriculum/learning
  • Remedial education/skills
Food/nutrition
  • School feeding
Health and childcare services
  • Referrals to health services
  • School-based clinics
Mentoring/psychosocial support
  • School-based counselors
  • Teachers as mentors
Policy/legal environment
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
  • Conditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Conditional cash transfers to schools
  • Reducing/eliminating school fees
  • Unconditional cash transfers (including non-cash goods) to individuals/households
  • Unconditional cash transfers to schools
School-related gender-based violence
  • Safe and welcoming schools
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)
Tutoring/strengthening academic skills
  • Literacy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom

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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 progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased test scores
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Rita Perakis
Center for Global Development (CGD)
Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst, Global Education
rperakis@cgdev.org