Interventions to strengthen sector resilience need to be broadened to improve system readiness for future challenges to learning continuity. After the 2015 earthquake, significant effort was directed towards improving school sector resilience against disasters triggered by natural hazards and climate change. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted new challenges that can impinge on learning continuity, with disproportionate effects on students from poor socioeconomic backgrounds and deprived communities. Interventions to strengthen sector resilience need to be broadened to improve system readiness to the learning continuity challenges to learning continuity that may arise from future pandemics and climate change impacts, especially for children from poor socioeconomic and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Supporting School Sector Development Plan