Educating Vulnerable and Hard-to-Reach Women and Girls in Nigeria-Response to Coronavirus (COVID_19)

This portion of the larger project works to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic through developing and disseminating information education and communication materials including SMS and pre-recorded radio messages promoting prevention at the community level. This project also aims to procure radio for girls and vulnerable families to ensure that girls can continue with their remote learning. Previously planned community engagement activities have been revised to sensitize key groups to COVID-19 issues. As well construction and rehabilitation activities have been modified to include hand-washing stations in formal and informal school locations.

The expected outcomes for this project include: 1) increased equitable access to safe secure quality inclusive education and learning by girls adolescent girls and women including those with disabilities in crisis- and conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings; and 2) improved equitable and coordinated provision of innovative safe quality gender-responsive and evidence-based formal and non-formal education from early childhood to the end of secondary for girls adolescent girls and women including those with disabilities in crisis- and conflict-affected and fragile situations and humanitarian settings.