GPE commits to supporting countries to build back better education systems, unlocking US$500 million to help mitigate the disruptions to education caused by COVID-19. The funds will sustain learning for up to 355 million children in 67 eligible countries, ensuring that girls, and the most marginalized, are not left behind.
Global Partnership for Education (GPE)
Washington D.C., United States of America
International or regional organization
Established : 2002
Education and COVID-19 Response
https://www.globalpartnership.org/gpe-and-covid-19-pandemic?location=initial-view
Objectives
Flagship
More than 160 million girls in 58 partner countries are affected by nationwide school closures. School closures will exacerbate existing inequalities, with girls and disadvantaged children likely to experience greater losses of learning.
GPE is committed to ensuring a strong gender focus in its COVID-19 support, including support for gender equality in grants funding COVID-19 mitigation and recovery. As part of GPE’s efforts to support gender, GPE has incorporated gender into the COVID-19 rapid response grant monitoring and evaluation framework. Grantees must collect data, analyze and report on the relevance and effectiveness of grants in addressing the specific barriers to learning faced and where relevant report number of girls reached through sensitization programs on early marriage, early pregnancies and importance of continuing learning or number of children reached through distance learning materials that include content on transformation of unequal gender norms, among other key indicators.
Regional Focus
Global
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Commitment
GPE is committed to ensuring that no child loses the opportunity of an education in the wake of the pandemic. GPE is supporting partner countries to strengthen their education systems and build resilience for the future, by:
• Keeping students learning and providing support so the most vulnerable students, especially the poorest girls, are not left behind.
• Supporting education systems and teachers during the crisis, ensuring that schools can safely reopen and that learning gaps are closed.
• Supporting governments to rapidly develop mitigation and response plans, safeguard education spending, and helping to align external funding behind national priorities.
GPE has unlocked US$500 million to help developing countries mitigate the immediate and long-term disruptions to education being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds will help sustain learning for up to 355 million children in 67 eligible countries, with a focus on ensuring that girls, and children from the poorest families, are not left behind.
US$25 million has been set aside to support global and regional coordination, learning and knowledge -sharing.
GPE has also provided US$8.8 million in emergency funding to UNICEF to support coordinated response planning, communication around safe school operations and building capacity for the current and future pandemics.
Action areas
Learner Wellbeing
Universal Connectivity
Digital Learning Content
Capacity Development
Advocacy and Communication
Advocacy and Communication
Contacts
Primary Contact
Ms. Sarah Beardmore
