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Rebuilding education systems for recovery: crisis-sensitive and equity focused approach

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Abstract

This policy brief, aimed at G20 countries and donors, recommends a first-open last-close strategy for schools contingent on a strong crisis-sensitive inclusive approach to educational policy and planning for response, recovery, and future prevention. It recommends a ‘twin-track approach’ to address equity concerns, that is, to institute and support mechanisms and policies in education financing, provision, and regulation to boost education resources overall, and to proactively target supplementary resources to the disadvantaged at all levels, i.e., countries, sub-national administrations, communities, schools, and individual groups. At the individual level, the most disproportionately affected students experiencing new pandemic-related vulnerabilities, and students who entered the pandemic in existing vulnerable circumstances, compounded crises, and with intersecting inequities, must be prioritized. The brief considers actions in four key areas: (i) emergency digital distance learning; (ii) education financing; (iii) education management and information systems (EMIS) and micro-planning; and (iv) citizen engagement for accountability and transparency in education.

Author
Srivastava, Prachi
Cardini, Alejandra
Anderson, Sonja
Bhatty, Kiran
Gagnon, Amélie
Jenkins, Robert
Matovich, Ivan
Moriarty, Kate
Reuge, Nicolas
Séguin, Thalia
Corporate Author
Think20 (T20). Task Force 6: Social Cohesion and the Future of Welfare Systems
Year of publication
2021
Imprint
Milano (ISPI, 2021, p.25)
Resource type
Source database
curatED
Language