COVID-19 response
Allocation: US$11 million
Years: 2020-2021
Grant agent: UNICEF
Key documents:
The grant will support the following interventions:
- Distributing WASH and hygiene supplies to schools. Training local community members and teachers to maintain WASH/hygiene equipment, and training school staff and students to adhere to social distancing guidelines and in the use of water and hygiene supplies
- Recruiting and deploying “volunteer” teachers, especially female. Providing teachers with online training to develop their capacities for learning assessments and remediation
- Developing and implementing guidelines for student assessments and exams, monitoring and supporting teachers in analyzing results and using them to prepare interventions enabling students to successfully complete their academic year
- Distributing student learning kits, teacher pedagogical support kits, and classrooms learning supplies
- Supporting accelerated and remedial “make-up” classes for students who have fallen below their grade level, with special attention to IDPs and students at risk of being stigmatized or abused
- Public schools - especially those in COVID-19 high-risk provinces - are tracked, assessed and ready for re-opening with the resources, information and materials they need to welcome children, and keep them and their teachers physically safe
In late March 2020, the UNICEF office in Afghanistan received a GPE grant of US$70,000 to support the Ministry of Education with the development of a comprehensive COVID-19 response plan for the immediate, medium- and long-term impact of the pandemic on the education system.
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Grants
All amounts are in US dollars.
Grant type | Years | Allocations | Utilization | Grant agent | |
Accelerated funding | 2020-2022 | 21,920,561 | 5,138,923 | UNICEF | |
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COVID-19 | 2020-2021 | 11,000,000 | 8,261,924 | UNICEF | |
Program implementation | 2019-2024 | 65,300,000 | 5,248,550 | WB | Progress report |
2022-2023 | 10,000,000 | 4,780,352 | UNICEF | ||
2012-2018 | 50,723,162 | 50,723,162 | UNICEF | Completion report | |
Sector plan development | 2016-2017 | 154,250 | 152,484 | WB | |
Program development | 2020-2021 | 200,000 | 199,999 | WB | |
2017-2018 | 200,000 | 199,980 | WB | ||
2017-2018 | 200,000 | 199,980 | WB | ||
Total | 159,697,973 | 74,905,354 |
Data last updated: March 17, 2023
Last updated May 24, 2021