COVID-19 Response in Kenya

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

With the onset of COVID-19, For the Good pivoted to research offline possibilities to deliver learning, limited to using resources already within communities due to curfews and travel restrictions. After weeks of challenges, they rolled out a remote education program to 100 students in May. In June, they were able to scale the program to an additional 200 students.

Using Kolibri, an offline app that makes education available in low-resource locations such as refugee camps, and tablets populated with content from eLimu, one of Kenya’s digital educational content providers, students are now able to study their standard curriculum and also learn from creative new content from the Khan Academy and other online providers. Tablets are also populated with COVID-19 information for families. To meet the tablets’ charging needs, For the Good is providing direct support to rural clinics and the handful of shopkeepers with access to electricity to serve as charging stations, providing vitally needed income to local communities during COVID-19. In June they scaled the program to 200 additional Maasai students and continued to reach out to schools in neighboring districts to expand the program to any interested teachers. In August, as word about the program spread, their team traveled to deliver content and teach the program to teachers in a neighboring district in Kenya’s Mara region.


Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Kenya

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

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

Sub-national

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Remote Learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans

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), Teachers - female, Teachers - male, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

  • Displaced/refugee - Internal (from other areas of the same country)
  • Other

Program Approaches Back to Top

Access to school

  • Alternative learning centers/mobile schools/home schools

Curriculum/learning

  • Increased availability of learning materials

Educational Technology

  • Digital devices for the purposes of studying, learning
  • Digital learning materials/programs

Teaching

  • Teaching materials (e.g. lesson plans, curricula)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved health - other