i.The report was released jointly by 4 United Nations (UN) Organisations – UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
ii.For the report, a total of 142 countries were surveyed between February to May 2021 among 4 schooling groups – pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary.
Recommendations & Findings of the Report:
i.Schools should be opened at the earliest to ease-out psychological displeasure faced among young childrens and minimize dropouts.
ii.Countries should work on improving girls centric policies to ensure their safe return to school
iii.Low-income countries lag in implementing most basic sanitation measures, struggling to ensure children’s safe return to school.
iv.Remote Learning (Radio & TV broadcasts) became popular among low-income countries, which acts as a lifeline for many childrens among vulnerable groups
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Static Takeaway:
Points | UNICEF | UNESCO | World Bank | OECD |
---|---|---|---|---|
Head | Henrietta H. Fore
(Executive Director) |
Audrey Azoulay
(Director-General) |
David Malpass
(President) |
Mathias Cormann
(Secretary-General) |
Headquarters | New York, USA | Paris, France | Washington, DC, USA | Paris, France |
Established Year | 1946 | 1945 | 1944 | 1961 |