Return to Learning During COVID-19

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

I Inactive

Key Information

USAID's Return to Learning during Crises Policy Brief provides a practical framework for planning and implementing key actions that help children and youth resume their education following a disruption. The framework provides guidance around five priorities and integrates cross-cutting considerations related to equity and inclusion; safety; community engagement; monitoring, evaluation and learning; and policy and financing.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.edu-links.org/index.php/resources/return-learning-during-covid-19

Government Affiliation
Non-governmental program
Years

2020 - 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
  • Secondary Enrollment
Quality
  • School facilities
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Community leaders, Girls (both in school and out of school), Parent-teacher associations/school management committees, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, 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
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
Facilities construction/improvement
  • Construction/improvement of classrooms
Health and childcare services
  • Referrals to health services
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Menstrual hygiene management
  • Sanitary product distribution
Other
  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
Policy/legal environment
  • System-wide review and reform
School-related gender-based violence
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
  • Work with community leaders
Teaching
  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
Women's empowerment programs
  • Advocacy/action

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown

Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Bethany Johnson
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Senior Gender and Policy Advisor, Office of Education
bjohnson@dexisonline.com