International Development Grant
Resilient Inclusive and Safe Education for Children
Project Number: CA-3-P009626001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $1,000,000.00
Start Date: February 07, 2021
End Date: March 30, 2022
Duration: 1.1 years
Project Description
This project contributes to children enjoying their right to quality education during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic by facilitating education continuity for vulnerable girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 12. This project also supports learning for deprived out-of-school girls and boys living in care institutions. Project activities include: (1) increasing access to resources by distributing learning materials and gadgets as well as establishing community-based learning corners; (2) developing a gender-equitable parenting program that tackles the role of fathers in caregiving women’s decision making and violence prevention; (3) providing training to teachers and school heads on gender-responsive technical products and learning materials to strengthen their capacity to deliver quality distance-based education; (4) piloting a home-based assessment with the Department of Education to monitor children’s learning and well-being; and (5) establishing communication platforms for meaningful household-school-community engagement. This project expects to benefit 51 595 children parents/caregivers school administrators/teachers and local government officials of which 24 848 are girls and 2 360 are women.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) improved gender-responsive quality learning environments in homes communities and care institutions for girls and boys between the ages of 6 and 12 in the COVID-19 crisis in the cities of Taguig and Paranaque and the municipality of Pateros; and (2) improved government support for the continuity of quality gender-responsive education and learning in the COVID-19 crisis in the cities of Taguig and Paranaque and the municipality of Pateros.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (June 2022) include: (1) 48 688 in-school children (29 241 girls) and 118 out-of-school children in childcare institutions (19 girls) benefitted from various learning resources. These resources include notebooks storybooks gadgets and school supplies supplemented by learning corners established across 29 schools and four child care institutions; (2) trained 103 parents and caregivers (92 women) and 49 house parents (41 women) on gender-equitable parenting and support for children’s home-based learning; (3) of the 400 children surveyed 89% reported receiving support for learning from parents and caregivers in 2022 up from 76% in 2021; (4) 1 841 users (1 601 women) actively engaged in communication platforms on social media designed to strengthen household-school-community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic; (5) trained 1 977 teachers (1 774 women) to deliver quality distance-based education; and (6) by the end of the project 88% of 1 684 teachers tested demonstrated knowledge in delivering gender-responsive education programs.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
Save the Children Canada
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
OGM Indo-Pacific
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated