CIFAL Jeju/JITC provides a variety of training programs to enhance capacity for national and local communities in the Asia-Pacific region to benefit from holistic and multi-disciplinary approaches available in such diverse areas as human trafficking, migration and refugees, urban poor, resilience and disaster risk reduction, making peaceful and inclusive societies, and so on.
2020.10.27
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Building Education System Back Better
in the COVID-19 Context
22 September 2020 (Webinar with interactive
discussion)
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has rendered
unprecedented, devastating impacts on people’s
life in almost all countries around the world. Education for children and youth
is no exception. Both nation-wide and localized school closures to contain the
pandemic are affecting over 60% of the world’s enrolled student population.[1]This accounts for more than one billion learners across the globe. Schools are trying
to overcome the negative impact of school closures by turning to the online distance
learning. However, where this solution is not feasible, access to learning is severely
denied. Furthermore, lack of access to the internet and computers would
push many marginalized students into a more difficult situation. According to
the SDG Report 2020 released by the United Nations, remote learning remains out
of reach for at least 500 million students.[2]
This has worsened the
already vulnerable situations which many marginalized students have been
confronting. Their right to quality, safe and inclusive education is being severely
disrupted. The pandemic situation is indeed slowing down the progress towards the
achievement of Sustainable Development Goal #4, inclusive and equitable quality
education. Inequalities in education have been exacerbated by COVID-19. In
low-income countries, children’s school completion rate is 79% in richest 20%
of households and only 34% in poorest 20% of households.[3]
The pandemic does pose
severe threats to those children with little or no access to social protection
services. COVID-19 educational disruption has had a profound impact on the most marginalized children suffering
from poverty, in particular on children with disabilities and girls in fragile
situations. In this context, CIFAL Jeju organizes an online event to explore
the COVID-19 impact on education and ways to reduce risks for the health and
safety of vulnerable children and to make distance learning readily accessible
to them. The event will also provide the potential participants with a platform
to discuss and share the key essentials to build education systems back better.
Objectives
To provide a platform for
good practices and lessons learned to be shared
To discuss how different strategies
and policies by country can be adapted to address the education divide in the
COVID-19 context
To share inputs on how to ensure
inclusive and equitable quality education in the COVID-19 context
Target Audience
This program is open to government
officials and practitioners from CSOs who have been working in the area related
to Sustainable Development Goal #4, inclusive and equitable quality education.
Application
and deadline
Send
the filled-in application form to cifaljeju.jitc.1@gmail.com by 20 September 2020 (Sunday).
Organizer
UNITAR
CIFAL Jeju/Jeju International Training Center
Website
Program Details
The Zoom meeting will begin
at 16:00 Korean Time (GMT+9) on 22 September.
*The
above program is subject to change.
[1]UNESCO,
“COVID-19 Impact on Education,” https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponseLearners enrolled at pre-primary, primary, secondary, tertiary education.
[2]The
Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2020/
[3] Sustainable Development Goal #4 https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4 |
