School Safety, Preparedness, & Reopening
Author: UNESCO, United Nations Children's Fund, PLAN International, United Nations Girls' Education Initiative and Malala Fund
Audience: Policymakers
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: Regional
The guide aims to help policymakers and practitioners in Ministries of Education and their partners address the gender dimensions of COVID-related school closures.
Author: UN Children's Fund Lao PDR Country Office
Audience: Policymakers, Teachers, Students, Caregivers and Parents
Languages: English, Lao
Geographical Scope: Lao People's Democratic Republic
UNICEF launched the #SafelyBackToSchool campaign which includes messaging through INGO networks and teachers’ groups, distributing posters to all schools in Lao, and using digital and traditional media to share more information for parents, teachers and students.
Campaign Materials
- Learning From Home
- Images
- PSA
- Posters
- Social Media Cards
- Safe School Guidance
- Survey
- Partner Logos
- Social Media Pack
If you encounter any problem accessing the files, please contact Ayush Karki (akarki@unicef.org).
Author: UN Children's Fund
Audience: Policymakers
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: Regional
UNICEF urges governments to prioritize the safe re-opening of schools when they begin easing lockdown restrictions. When reopening is not possible, UNICEF urges governments to incorporate compensatory learning for lost instructional time into school continuity and reopening plans. School opening policies and practices must include expanding access to education, including remote learning, especially for marginalized groups. Education systems must also be adapted and built to withstand future crises.
Author: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Audience: Policymakers
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: Regional
This paper is meant to help decision makers frame a holistic analysis of school closure on the wellbeing of children and young people, and to consider the safe reopening of schools.
The Alliance and INEE also call on advocacy teams, cluster coordinators, and agencies that have staff seconded into government ministries, to work with the national governments to support this analysis to be undertaken from a child-centred perspective.
Author: UNESCO
Audience: Caregivers and Parents
Languages: English, Lao, Thai and Myanmar
Geographical Scope: Regional
Video: Staying safe and healthy when returning to school
This brief animated video reassures parents about their children returning to school as lockdowns end and how to prepare for the reopening of schools. Key messages are to continue to practice physical distancing and good hygiene and to keep informed about notices disseminated by education and health authorities.
ວິດີໂອ: ຮັກສາຄວາມປອດໄພ ແລະ ຮັກສາສຸຂະພາບເມື່ອກັບເຂົ້າໂຮງຮຽນ
ວີດີໂອພາບເຄື່ອນໄຫວສັ້ນໆນີ້ ເຮັດໃຫ້ພໍ່ແມ່ຜູ້ປົກຄອງໝັ້ນໃຈ ກ່ຽວກັບການກັບຄືນເຂົ້າໂຮງຮຽນຂອງລູກພວກເຂົາ ເມື່ອມາດຕະການໃຫ້ຢູ່ເຮືອນໄດ້ສິ້ນສຸດລົງ ແລະ ວິທີການກະກຽມ ສຳລັບການເປີດໂຮງຮຽນຄືນໃໝ່. ຂໍ້ຄວາມສຳຄັນນີ້ ແມ່ນເພື່ອສືບຕໍ່ປະຕິບັດການເວັ້ນໄລຍະຫ່າງດ້ານຮ່າງກາຍ, ມີສຸຂະອະນາໄມທີ່ດີ ແລະ ເພື່ອໃຫ້ຂໍ້ມູນແຈ້ງການຕ່າງໆທີ່ໄດ້ເຜີຍແຜ່ໂດຍຄະນະຮັບຜິດຊອບວຽກງານສະກັດກັ້ນ, ກັນການລະບາດ, ຄວບຄຸມ ແລະ ກຽມຄວາມພ້ອມຮອບດ້ານ ເພື່ອຕ້ານພະຍາດໂຄວິດ-19 ຂອງກະຊວງສຶກສາທິການ ແລະ ກິລາ ແລະ ກະຊວງສາທາລະນະສຸກ.
รักษาความปลอดภัยและมีสุขภาพที่ดีเมื่อกลับไปโรงเรียน
วิดีโอสั้นเรื่องนี้จัดทำขึ้นเพื่อช่วยสร้างความมั่นใจให้กับผู้ปกครองในการกลับไปโรงเรียนของบุตรหลานหลังจากการกักตัวได้จบลง และเสนอแนะวิธีเตรียมความพร้อมสำหรับการเปิดโรงเรียนอีกครั้ง ประเด็นสำคัญได้แก่ การรักษาระยะห่างทางสังคมและความสะอาดอย่างต่อเนื่อง พร้อมด้วยการติดตามข่าวสารที่เผยแพร่โดยหน่วยงานด้านการศึกษา และสาธารณสุข
ဗြီဒီယို၊ ေက်ာင္းၿပန္ တက္ခ်ိန္တြင္ အႏၠရာယ္ ကင္းကင္း ႏွင့္ က်န္းက်န္းမာမာ ေနထိိုင္ပါ။
ဤကာတြန္းရုပ္ရွင္ အတိုသည္ သြားလာကန္႕သတ္မႈမ်ား ေၿဖေလ်ာ႔ၿပီးေနာက္ ကေလးမ်ား ေက်ာင္းၿပန္တက္ခ်ိန္တြင္မိဘမ်ား၏ စိုးရိမ္ေသာကကို ေၿပေပ်ာက္ေစရန္ႏွင့္ ေက်ာင္းၿပန္ဖြင္႔ၿခင္းအတြက္ မည္သို႕ ၿပင္ဆင္ရမည္ကို သိရွိရန္ၿဖစ္သည္။ အဓိက မွာၾကားခ်က္ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားမွာ လူခ်င္း ထိေတြ႕မႈ မရွိဘဲ ခပ္ခြာခြာေနရန္၊ တကိုယ္ေရ သန္႕ရွင္းမႈ အတြက္ လိုက္နာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ႏွင့္ ပညာေရး နွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး အာဏာပုိင္မ်ား ၿဖန္႕ေဝေသာ သတိၿပဳရမည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားကို သိရွိရန္ ၿဖစ္သည္။
Author: UNESCO, Teacher Task Force and International Labour Organization
Audience: Teachers and Policymakers
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: Regional
This Toolkit was designed for school leaders to support and protect teachers and education support staff in the return to school following COVID-19 related closures. While aimed primarily at school leaders, the Toolkit is also potentially useful for teachers and education support staff to better understand their roles and responsibilities in back-to-school efforts.
Author: UNESCO Delhi and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)
Audience: Teachers, Students, Caregivers and Parents
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: India
The book informs students about what cyberbullying is, what are dos and don’ts of the cyberspace as well as also gives a brief about the laws in the Indian jurisdiction to protect students and parents in case of any mishappening online. It also shares counter cyberbullying practices along with helpline numbers to contact in case of an incident.
Author: UNICEF Laos
Audience: Schools, Parents and Students
Languages: Lao, Hmong and Kmu
Geographical Scope: Lao People's Democratic Republic
UNICEF Laos is happy to share with you video for schools, parents and students to raise awareness that it is safe to go back to school. These videos were developed with MoES and approved by MoH. The videos are in Lao language with subtitles and sign language (same videos are also available in Hmong and Kmu) and are being aired on national TV and broadcast on radio, as well as MoES and UNICEF online platforms.
For schools: on prevention and control steps, cleaning of schools:
The video is also available in Hmong and Kmu.
For parents: that it’s safe for children to go back to school:
The video is also available in Hmong and Kmu.
For students: getting ready to go back to school:
As a global community dedicated to advancing gender equality in, to and through education, we must leverage the power of collective action to position gender at the forefront of the COVID-19 response and enhance coherence in advocacy and communication across partner and ally organisations.
This common messaging initiative represents a strategic opportunity to foster dialogue and raise attention to the gendered impacts of COVID-19, advocate for strategies to respond to the gendered dimensions of this crisis, and look ahead to the safe reopening of schools through a gendered lens.
Assets:
- Link to shared folder
- Statement cards & GIF | Question cards - content for LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram
- Common messaging document (downloadable PDF)
Author: IIEP-UNESCO
Audience: Policymakers
Languages: English
Geographical Scope: Regional
This brief provides advice and information for education planners and decision-makers who are anticipating the reopening of schools following closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Even if countries have crisis-recovery strategies in place, the following may be useful reminders.
