Partnering in the Global Education Coalition to Protect the Right to Education During COVID-19 and Beyond

Jon F. Kapp, Executive Director, Community Systems Foundation

Community Systems Foundation (CSF) is a proud member of the Global Education Coalition! Led by UNESCO, the Global Education Coalition is a network of 132 partners aiming to, “work with governments to find solutions to leave no one behind and elevate the importance of equity and gender equality in educational responses to the COVID-19 crisis."

As a coalition partner, CSF brings practice field experience in designing and deploying IT solutions to support development. Practically, our work strengthening education systems through the OpenEMIS Initiative positions the organization to make immediate contributions.      

Through the Global Education Coalition, CSF commits to advance the Coalition’s mission in two specific ways to the COVID-19 crisis:

• Rapid deployment of the free open-source OpenEMIS Vaccination Module to assist Ministries of Education in planning, implementing, and monitoring COVID-19 vaccination of staff in campaigns to reach all education institutions.
  
  
• Collaboration with Coalition members in the design of an OpenEMIS Vaccination Passport mobile app, powered by blockchain technology, for use by Ministries of Education to verify the vaccination status of individual staff members and students.

Community Systems Foundation’s full commitment to the Global Education Coalition can be found on the Global Education Coalition website.