UNESCO and members of the Global Education Coalition’s Gender Flagship have launched a new #LearningNeverStops campaign focusing on ‘keeping girls in the picture’.
This campaign is in response to the adverse impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education.
The pandemic, Development Diaries understands, has caused the largest school closures and education disruption in history.
According to UNESCO, more than 1.5 billion students were affected at the height of the Covid-19 crisis, and 767 million of these students were girls.
The UN agency also noted that over 11 million girls – from pre-primary to tertiary education – may not return to school in 2020.
The #LearningNeverStops campaign, therefore, calls for efforts to safeguard the progress made on girls’ education, ensure girls’ learning continuity during school closures, and promote girls’ safe return to school.
It will also focus on the 130 million girls who were already out of school before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and call on the international community to urgently work together to guarantee girls’ right to education.
The #LearningNeverStops multilingual campaign will feature a signature launch video, engaging social media assets, practical toolkits for radio and youth-led organisations.
‘Youth activists and community radios are being mobilised at the local level to access hard to reach communities to reach’, a statement on the UNESCO website read.
‘Local and regional influencers, experts, education professionals and champions for girls’ and women’s rights have also committed to amplifying campaign messages and spread knowledge through their respective networks’.
Additionally, UNESCO noted that powerful human-interest stories from girls around the world would be featured throughout the campaign and a wealth of knowledge and resources on girls’ and women’s education are also available on the campaign landing page.
Source: UNESCO
Photo source: UN Women
