Nepal's application for US$11 million COVID-19 funding to support the Government in undertaking the activities in its Education Cluster COVID-19 Contingency Plan (ECCCP) and fund activities to respond to the impacts of COVID-19 to enable learning to continue during short-term, periodic, and long term school closures, enable schools to safely resume and mitigate the impacts on students and teachers including loss of learning time and psychosocial impacts.

This grant will also support the education sector to be more resilient to future shocks.

The project will focus on safeguarding access and learning, especially of girls and children from the most marginalized groups and use the crisis response for strengthening the system to respond better in the event of a future crisis.