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  • ADEAFriday, September 8, 2023 - 13:59 

    Educational systems in Africa witnessed unprecedented disruptions due to COVID-19. Almost 300 million learners from Africa were forced out of classrooms for over a year. Although government interventions, such as online and accelerated learning as well as catch-up programs, were essential in supporting continuity of learning and mitigating the short-term consequences of the COVID-19 school closures, little is known about the longer-term consequences of the pandemic on education, especially from the perspective of local education stakeholders.

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  • ADEAFriday, September 8, 2023 - 14:02 

    The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on learning cannot be overstated or accurately quantified due to inadequate metrics. The pandemic hit the African continent between late February and early March 2020. The school calendar’s first term was winding down in the eastern part of the continent: specifically, Kenya. 

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  • ADEAFriday, September 1, 2023 - 11:32 

    Global school closures, deployed to curb the spread of COVID-19, have affected educational systems worldwide, threatening the disruption of the strides made in attainment of quality and equitable education, especially on the African continent. While governments established several interventions to mitigate the short-term consequences of COVID-19, little is known about the long-term impact of COVID-19 on education, particularly from the perspectives of national education stakeholders.

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  • ADEAFriday, September 1, 2023 - 11:44 

    This report presents case studies from seven African countries (i.e., Burkina Faso, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, and Nigeria) that implemented programs and innovations in response to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education systems. The report provides insights into building resilience within Africa’s education systems for the future.

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  • ADEATuesday, January 24, 2023 - 15:37 

    The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges to education in African countries. In response, researchers have mobilized to produce actionable evidence that supports system recovery and resilience. What can this experience teach us about the ability of education systems to absorb the shock of a crisis?

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  • ADEAThursday, May 19, 2022 - 09:20 

    The Africa Policymaker Forum (APF) is a joint community of practice launched by the Education Commission (EC) and ADEA to discuss delivery challenges and strategies for addressing them and improve education service delivery across Africa.

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  • ADEATuesday, January 24, 2023 - 15:30 

    In education management, assessment helps to determine the effectiveness of teaching and the various needs of an education system. However, the COVID-19 restrictions, and school closures that followed, complicated the use of traditional in-person or in-class learning assessment approaches.

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  • ADEAWednesday, November 23, 2022 - 18:30 

    The KIX Observatory has published its latest report "Learning assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa”. This report contributes to the KIX Observatory’s efforts to gather emerging evidence on education policy and practice responses to COVID-19 in Africa.

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  • ADEAWednesday, March 16, 2022 - 18:08 

    Interventions that are likely to be impactful are those that are anchored on sound policies and strategies, are well-planned and resourced, are efficiently executed, and are effectively monitored and evaluated. This presupposes a ‘normal environment’ yet these conditions are hardly met fully during ‘normal times’ when it comes to Africa. And so, we find instances of glaring gaps between policy pronouncements and practice responses, with resources neither adequate nor targeted appropriately to fully implement programmes.

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  • ADEAThursday, February 17, 2022 - 18:51 

    On Tuesday, February 15, 2022, ADEA in collaboration with AU/CIEFFA and APHRC, held a virtual press conference to present the KIX Observatory report on teacher training and support in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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