Return to Learning During COVID-19

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

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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.


Location(s)

Global

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