Asia Pacific Region National Education Coalitions COVID-19 Zoom Conference

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Key Information

As the impact of the coronavirus pandemic was taking hold, flights ceased, and national borders were closed, ASPBAE convened the first all-in Zoom online meeting of the national education coalitions in the Asia Pacific region. Thirty-one participants from 18 coalitions joined: Nepal, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Samoa, along with ASPBAE coalition capacity support staff.

The purpose of the meeting was to gain a sense of how respective government measures regarding the coronavirus are impacting on education, how coalitions have been able to respond, and the key education issues that are being raised in each country (ASPBAE Statement on COVID-19). The meeting was also an opportunity for ASPBAE to update the coalitions on initiatives by global education organisations such as the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and UNESCO, and on SDG processes in relation to COVID-19 especially.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, South Asia

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

Activity URL

Not applicable or unknown

Government Affiliation
Unknown
Years

2020 -

Partner(s)

National Campaign for Education-Nepal, E-Net- Philippines, All for Education (AFE)- Mongolia, Afghanistan National Education Coalition (ANEC), Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE), Civil Society Education Partnership (CSEP)

Ministry Affiliation
N/A
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
Quality
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
  • Other academic performance-related
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
  • Gender equality
  • Nutrition
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary
Other populations reached
  • Policymakers
Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Technical assistance/capacity building to civil society organizations or governments
Curriculum/learning
  • Increased availability of learning materials
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Online training
Food/nutrition
  • Community food production
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Textbooks (digital)
Life skills education
  • Gender, rights and power
Other
  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
Policy/legal environment
  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
School-related gender-based violence
  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)
  • Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
Teaching
  • Teacher incentives
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

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Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
Additional Information Back to Top
Primary Contact
Medha Soni
Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education (ASPBAE)
Information and Communications Coordinator