In Africa during national lockdowns, students in rural areas do not have the same learning opportunities as their compatriots who live in urban areas and have access to internet facilities. In areas where school feeding programmes are active, closure of schools also means inadequate food for resource-poor households.
AUDA-NEPAD wants to implement an intervention to provide technical support to Member States to mitigate the social and economic adverse effects of school closures during COVID-19 pandemics and other unforeseen future crises such as natural disasters.