Building back equal: Girls back to school guide

A guide that provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening of schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalised girls.

This guide builds on the UN Framework for Reopening Schools and the Safe Back to School Practitioners Guide, and other guidance developed to help governments and school communities to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. It goes further, calling for action to ‘build back equal’ – promoting the development of gender-responsive education systems and targeted actions to ensure girls’ continuity of learning and return to school when these reopen.