Nicaragua COVID-19 Education Sector Response

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Key Information

The Project Development Objectives (PDOs) are to support MINED’s COVID-19 response programs conducive to reducing learning gaps; and develop socioemotional skills for vulnerable groups. To respond to the COVID-19 crisis in the medium and longer-term, MINED is implemented the National Strategy for Basic and Secondary Education to Face the COVID-19 Challenge to which this proposed Project is aligned to. The strategy, with a “nobody stays behind” vision, articulates four stages that are overlapped. Stage I: Preventive education for healthcare in the context of face-to-face classes, covering the current situation of public schools functioning with certain limitations due to the pandemic; Stage II: Support of remote with emphasis on equity and inclusion, referring to the potential phase of remote education in case public school closure is formally declared by the national sanitary authority; Stage III: Mitigation of the impact generated by the pandemic on the return to classes, referring to the period when all schools re-open and regular classes are back; and Stage IV: Resilience, Learn and prepare for future challenges, that is a continuous stage-oriented to build a more resilient education system. Girl's needs were specifically addressed under Component 2: Support programs to develop socioemotional skills in vulnerable schools. The support provided had a gender-perspective as girls and young women are a group whose vulnerabilities are heightened by emergencies and disasters (UNFPA, 2020); modules will be designed for school staff and parents with information and materials about gender-associated risks and guidelines to mitigate them.


Lead Implementing Government(s)

Nicaragua

Location(s)

Latin America & Caribbean

Nicaragua

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2020 - 2022

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education - MINED

Funder(s)

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
  • Secondary completion

Other

  • Remote Learning

Other skills

  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Gender equality

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys (both in school and out of school), Girls (both in school and out of school), School administrators, Teachers - female, Teachers - male

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Fathers
  • Mothers

Participants include

  • Indigenous
  • People with disabilities

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community mobilization

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning

Life skills education

  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

School-related gender-based violence

  • Violence prevention curriculum/activities for students

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – gender-responsive pedagogy
  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased school completion (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other
  • Improved mental health
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms
  • Reduced violence against children in the home