Sudan: The Coronavirus Pandemic Forces Schools to Innovate

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Key Information

Unprecedented education challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic call for innovative solutions. And this is exactly the approach Sudan is taking with the support of an US$11 million COVID-19 accelerated grant from GPE, which will target all public schools including 257 schools for internally displaced persons (IDP).

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Sudan

Activity URL

https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/sudan-coronavirus-pandemic-forces-schools-innovate

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2020 - 2021

Partner(s)

Sudan's National Center for Curriculum and Educational Research (NCCER)

Ministry Affiliation
Ministry of Education, Sudan
Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19
Geographic Scope
National
Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  
Unknown
Areas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Primary to secondary transition
Other
  • Remote Learning
Quality
  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • School quality
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
Cross-cutting areas
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Emergencies and protracted crises
Program participants

Target Audience(s)

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

Age

6 - 11

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include
  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
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
  • Remedial education/skills
Educational Technology
  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs
  • Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
Facilities construction/improvement
  • Construction/improvement of schools
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Educational Radio or Television Programs
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
Life skills education
  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
Other
  • Check-in calls or SMS messages by teachers
  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)
Policy/legal environment
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Public-private partnerships
  • System-wide review and reform
Reducing economic barriers
  • Addressing cost of school supplies
School-related gender-based violence
  • 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
  • Literacy - outside the classroom
  • Numeracy - in the classroom
  • Numeracy - outside 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 primary school completion
  • Increased test scores
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown