Papua New Guinea: Reinventing learning in the time of coronavirus

  • F Funding Initiative/Portfolio

I Inactive

Key Information

A US$9.44 million GPE grant to PNG will ensure elementary, primary and lower secondary school children can access distance learning and return safely to school when appropriate, while making the education system more resilient to future threats. This funding supported the launch of radio and TV programs to broadcast English, math and science lessons, and provided educational resources for teachers and students on the ministry’s website - accessed by more than 300,000 students, including 168,000 girls - throughout the country.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)

East Asia & Pacific

Papua New Guinea

Activity URL

https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/papua-new-guinea-reinventing-learning-time-coronavirus

Government Affiliation
Government-affiliated program
Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation
National Department of Education
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
  • Secondary completion
  • Secondary Enrollment
Other
  • Remote Learning
Quality
  • School quality
  • Teacher training
Skills
  • Literacy
  • Numeracy
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), Fathers, Girls (both in school and out of school), Mothers, Other community members - female, Other community members - male, 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
  • People with disabilities
Program Approaches Back to Top
Access to school
  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools
Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization
  • Community mobilization
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)
Increased availability of learning materials
  • Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (paper)
  • Increased availability of Writing materials
Policy/legal environment
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
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)
Social/gender norms change
  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents
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 primary school completion
  • Increased progression to secondary school
  • Increased re-enrolment in school among out-of-school children
  • Increased school completion (general)
  • Increased school enrolment (general)
  • Increased years of schooling
  • Reduced absenteeism
  • Reduced grade repetition
Cross-cutting goals

Not applicable or unknown