News Amid Pandemic, America's Schools Have Much to Learn from Refugee Education Getting children safely back to school during a pandemic is a new challenge facing American policymakers, administrators, teachers, and parents this fall—but the challenge of educating during a crisis has long plagued contexts of war and displacement.
Event Policies and Strategies Guiding the Implementation of Gender Transformative Covid‐19 Recovery Plans for the Education Sector in Sub‐Saharan Africa Please join us for this policy dialogue, which will bring together representatives from global and pan‐African institutions as well as government bodies in order to share perspectives on what it takes to create a conducive environment for gender transformative approaches to help the education sector recover and become more resilient.
Resource COVID-19: How prepared are global education systems for future crises? This research brief is one of a series exploring the effects of COVID-19 on education. It focuses on how school closures affect children and the resiliency of education systems to respond to such disruptions and mitigate their effects
Resource The Futures of Education in emergencies and protracted crises On 17 July 2020, a group of 35 experts from across policy, practice and academia engaged in an online consultation to discuss the Futures of Education in emergencies (EiE) and protracted crises. The report of the event will be submitted to the International Commission on the Futures of Education for its consideration.
Resource Guidance on strengthening disability inclusion in Humanitarian Response Plans This guidance provides support to seven UN entities on how to strengthen inclusion of disability in Humanitarian Response Plans (HRPs) as part of the UK Department for International Development (DFID) Humanitarian Investment Program. The aim of this work is to make humanitarian programming more responsive to the needs of people with disabilities affected by crisis.
Event Joint UNESCO-UNICEF-World Bank webinar series on the reopening of schools The joint webinar series is organized around the Framework for reopening of schools, published in April 2020 in collaboration with UNICEF and the World Bank, and aims to support governments in strengthening distance learning and facilitating the reopening of schools, as part of the Global Education Coalition’s efforts on COVID-19. The series includes 5 webinars broadcasted over the month of June.
Event Using the INEE Minimum Standards during COVID-19 The ninth webinar of the series will formally launch the INEE Technical Note on Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic. During the webinar, panelists will give an overview of the technical note itself, along with practical examples of how the INEE Minimum Standards can be applied in the COVID-19 response.
Resource A Framework to Guide an Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020 This report aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The report explains why the necessary social isolation measures will disrupt school-based education for several months in most countries around the world.
Resource National Response Plan for COVID-19 This national COVID19 emergency response plan document aims at presenting the MoE Palestine planned preparedness and response measures to ensure students safety, psychosocial wellbeing and continuity of transferring knowledge and information to all student both in Gaza and West Bank.
