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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://plan-international.org/blog/2020/03/covid-19-school-closures-hit-girls-hardest?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Global%20newsletter%20-%20April%202020" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://plan-international.org/blog/2020/03/covid-19-school-closures-hit-girls-hardest?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Global%20newsletter%20-%20April%202020</span></span></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">COVID-19
SCHOOL CLOSURES AROUND THE WORLD WILL HIT </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GIRLS
</span></span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HARDEST</span></span></b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://plan-international.org/people/anne-birgitte-albrectsen" title="Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen " style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By
ANNE-BIRGITTE ALBRECTSEN, </span></span><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); text-transform: none; text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CEO, Plan International
&</span></span></span></a></span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(36, 60, 75); text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">STEFANIA
GIANNINI, </span></span></b><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assistant
Deputy Director, UNESCO</span></span></b><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(13, 13, 13); text-decoration: none; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">31
MARCH 2020</span></span></b><span style="color: black; text-transform: uppercase; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> -
</span></span><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As COVID-19 forces school closures
in 185 countries, Plan International and UNESCO warn of the potential for increased drop-out rates which will disproportionately affect adolescent girls.</span></span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sierra Leone was one of the worst affected countries during
the Ebola crisis. There are lessons to be learned for the global COVID-19 response.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Out of the total population of students enrolled in education
globally, UNESCO estimates that over 89% are currently out of school because of COVID-19 closures. This represents 1.54 billion children and youth enrolled in school or university, including nearly 743 million girls. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over 111 million of these girls are living in the world’s
least developed countries where getting an education is already a struggle. These are contexts of extreme poverty, economic vulnerability and crisis where gender disparities in education are highest. In Mali, Niger and South Sudan — 3 countries with some of
the lowest enrolment and completion rates for girls — closures have forced over 4 million girls out of school.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(225, 120, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For
girls living in refugee camps or who are internally displaced, school closures will be most devastating as they are already at a disadvantage. Refugee girls at secondary level are only </span><a href="" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 206); text-decoration: none; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">half
as likely</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to enroll as their male peers. </span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are only beginning to understand the economic impacts
of COVID-19, but they are expected to be </span><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/the-coronavirus-fallout-may-be-worse-for-women-than-men-heres-why/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 206); text-decoration: none; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">widespread
and devastating</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, particularly for women and girls. In the Global South, where limited social protection measures are in place, economic hardships caused by the crisis will
have spill-over effects as families consider the financial and opportunity costs of educating their daughters. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While many girls will continue with their education once
the school gates reopen, others will never return to school. Education responses must prioritise the needs of adolescent girls' at the risk of reversing 20 years of gains made for girls’ education.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LESSONS FROM THE EBOLA CRISIS</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While
the magnitude of the COVID-19 crisis is unprecedented, we can look to the lessons learnt from the Ebola epidemic in Africa. At the height of the epidemic, 5 million children were affected by school closures across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, countries
hardest hit by the outbreak. And poverty levels rose significantly as education was interrupted.</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In many cases, school drop-outs were caused by an increase
in domestic and caring responsibilities and a shift towards income generation. This means that girls’ learning at home was limited, as shown by </span><a href="https://plan-international.org/publications/ebola-beyond-health%C2%A0emergency" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 206); text-decoration: none; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plan
International’s analysis</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. In villages with established “girls’ clubs” and existing sensitisation efforts to promote girls’ education, fewer girls experienced adverse effects
and were more likely to continue their learning.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Several </span><a href="https://www.sl.undp.org/content/sierraleone/en/home/library/crisis_prevention_and_recovery/assessing-sexual-and-gender-based-violence-during-the-ebola-cris.html" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 206); text-decoration: none; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">studies</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> found
that the closure of schools increased girls vulnerability to physical and sexual abuse both by their peers and by older men, as girls were often are at home alone and unsupervised. Sexual exploitation in the context of selling sex for food and other essentials
was also widely reported as vulnerable girls and their families struggled to cover basic needs. As family breadwinners perished from Ebola and livelihoods were destroyed, many families chose to marry their daughters off, falsely hoping this would offer them
protection. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Sierra Leone, adolescent pregnancy increased by up to
65% in some communities during the Ebola crisis. In </span><a href="https://www.savethechildren.org/content/dam/global/reports/emergency-humanitarian-response/ebola-rec-sierraleone.pdf" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 114, 206); text-decoration: none; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one
study</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, most girls reported this increase was a direct result of being outside the protective environment provided by schools. Many of these girls never returned to the classroom,
largely due to a recently revoked policy preventing pregnant girls from attending school. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>APPLYING LESSONS LEARNED
FROM EBOLA TO COVID-19</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Schools are left empty as an abandoned nest. I am so sad.
Being at school can help to protect girls from pregnancy and marriage. Many of my friends are getting pregnant and I realised some have been forced into early marriage," said 17-year-old Christiana during the 2014 Ebola crisis. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For girls like Christiana, who have lived or are living through
a crisis, education is a lifeline, offering protection from violence and exploitation and providing them with skills and hope for a brighter future.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As governments prepare for indefinite school closures, policy
makers and practitioners can look to lessons from past crises to address the specific challenges faced by girls. We therefore call on governments to protect progress made in favour of girls’ education through these six gender-responsive, evidence-based and
context-specific actions:</span></span></p>
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<li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leverage
teachers and communities</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Work closely with teachers, school staff and communities to ensure inclusive methods of distance learning are adopted and communicated to call for continued investments in girls’ learning. Community
sensitisation on the importance of girls’ education should continue as part of any distance learning programme. </span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></li><li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adopt
appropriate distance learning practices</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In contexts where digital solutions are less accessible, consider low-tech and gender-responsive approaches. Send reading and writing materials home and use radio and television broadcasts to
reach the most marginalised. Ensure programme scheduling and learning structures are flexible and allow self-paced learning so as not to deter girls who often disproportionately shoulder the burden of care.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></li><li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Consider
the gender digital divide </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In contexts where digital solutions to distance learning and internet is accessible, ensure that girls are trained with the necessary digital skills, including the knowledge and skills they need
to stay safe online. </span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></li><li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Safeguard
vital services</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Girls and the most vulnerable children and youth miss out on vital services when schools are closed, specifically school meals and social protection. Make schools access points for psychosocial
support and food distribution, work across sectors to ensure alternative social services and deliver support over the phone, text or other forms of media. </span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></li><li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Engage
young people</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Give space to youth, particularly girls, to shape the decisions made about their education. Include them in the development of strategies and policies around school closures and distance learning
based on their experiences and needs.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></li><li style="color: black; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ensure
return to school</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Provide flexible learning approaches so that girls are not deterred from returning to school when they re-open. This includes pregnant girls and young mothers who often face stigma and discriminatory
school re-entry laws that prevent them from accessing education.</span><br style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allow automatic promotion and appropriate opportunities in admissions processes that recognise the particular challenges faced by girls. Catch-up courses and accelerated learning may be necessary
for girls who return to school.</span></span></span></li></ul>
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