The COVID-19 Tonga Accelerated Resilience Program will support the development and delivery of multimodal lessons for early childhood education (ECE), Inclusive Education and primary schools for home-schooling and the development of guidance for parents and caregivers to be used in the event of further school closures due to disasters or COVID-19 outbreaks.

Further, it will support the development of the capacity of teachers to be able to support students learning in a variety of media. This will enable Tonga’s education systems to develop more capable and flexible teachers who will have enhanced skills, enabling them to leapfrog, by using a range of technologies, towards modern pedagogies.

The Program will allow Tonga to harness the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to emerge with education systems which are much better prepared for emergencies.