Building Education Systems of The Future
- P Project/Program
? Activity Status: Unknown
Key Information
COVID-19 lockdown measures led to school closures around the world. This highlighted the urgent need for more resilient, digital-first education systems that enable students to learn from home. Vodafone Foundation has been providing support to students and education systems via:
- Zero rating educational sites and donating devices in response to COVID-19
- Parterning with Perlego to offer free access to a library of over 300,000 digitical text books for students
- Providing free educational resources to 1.6 million learners across Africa through Vodacom e-school and Vodafone Foundation's Instant Schools
- Supporting 360,000 subscribers in 66 institutes in Tanzania and South Africa through Connected Education solution
- Expanding Instant Network Schools program to support 500,000 refugee students and commuities by 2025 in partnership with UNHCR
Lead Implementing Organization(s)
Location(s)
Europe & Central Asia, Global, Sub-Saharan Africa
Germany, Greece, South Africa
Activity URL
Government Affiliation
Non-governmental programYears
2020 -
Partner(s)
Microsoft, UN Refugee Agency, Perlego
Ministry Affiliation
UnknownFunder(s)
Not applicable or unknown
COVID-19 Response
New for COVID-19Geographic Scope
Global / regionalAreas of Work Back to Top
Education areas
Attainment
- Primary enrollment
- Secondary Enrollment
Other
- Remote Learning
Quality
- Teacher training
Cross-cutting areas
- COVID-19 Response
- Digital literacy
- 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), Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth
Age
12 - 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
- Displaced/refugee - External (from other countries)
- Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
Program Approaches Back to Top
Curriculum/learning
- Increased availability of learning materials
Educational Technology
- Computer-assisted learning
- Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
- Digital learning materials/programs
- Digital reading materials (non-textbook)
- Digital skills/literacy (including coding)
- Online training
Increased availability of learning materials
- Increased availability of Fiction/non-fiction books (digital)
- Textbooks (digital)
Reducing economic barriers
- Addressing cost of school supplies
School-related gender-based violence
- Training of school personnel (including teachers)
Program Goals Back to Top
Education goals
- Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
- Increased grade attainment
- Increased school enrolment (general)
- Increased test scores
Cross-cutting goals
Not applicable or unknown