Project profile — Support to the Education Sector’s Response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Sudan

• Sudan (100.00%)

• Education, Level Unspecified: Education facilities and training (11120) (20.00%)
• Basic Health: Infectious disease control (12250) (30.00%)
• Water And Sanitation: Basic sanitation (14032) (50.00%)

• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)
• Youth Issues (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)

This project supports the Sudan Ministry of Education’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and works to strengthen and contribute to the preparations for safe school re-openings. This project also works to direct funding to areas of the country with the highest numbers of refugee and migrant children, and the highest needs for education and protection support. Project activities include: (1) providing training to teachers on COVID-19 awareness, well-being, psychosocial support, and teaching pedagogy; and (2) rehabilitating classrooms and schools, with a focus on ensuring gender-sensitive water and sanitation facilities.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved equitable access to safe, gender-sensitive and conducive learning environments with safe drinking water, washing units and functioning sanitation facilities; and (2) improved capacity of teachers and adolescents to ensure the safe operations in schools within the COVID-19 context.

Results achieved as of December 2023 include: (1) provided COVID-19 kits to 480 schools to apply the Ministry of Education’s safe back-to-school protocols; (2) provided Teacher Preparedness Training to 655 teachers (67% women) from 1,000 schools on safe back to school protocols and addressing gaps in learning due to school closures; (3) trained 144 teachers from 48 schools in Khartoum in school hygiene club formation; (4) trained 30 students from each school (1,440 students in total, of which 60% girls) who participated in the formation of school clubs; and (5) distributed 200 adolescent kits and 200 recreational kits to schools to support formation of school hygiene clubs.

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