465 million children worldwide could not be reached through online learning during the pandemic and their education was severely disrupted. Lack of screen-free resources and limited parental supervision were added barriers. Existing learning options were often inaccessible and didactic. IFERB was created to ensure high-quality, relevant, engaging, and tech-free learning continuity amidst crisis.
IFERB features over 130+ week-long project-based learning resources, 100+ Math games, 50+ activities for children with special needs, 200+ Arabic storybooks, and 15+ monthly learning packages. It also hosts unique modules that cater to the specific educational and socioemotional needs of children from specific emergency contexts including Ukraine, Afghanistan and Palestine.
IFERB has catered to marginalized learners through a variety of It leverages community members to facilitate learning. IFERB is designed for multiple modalities (remote, blended, stand-alone, etc.) and use cases (catch-up, bridge, accelerated learning, refugee response, etc.).
Partners select, translate, and implement the open-source resources that are relevant to their context. EAA supports pilot projects through trainings, funding, MEL tools and frequent check-ins. Capacity building happens for all- teachers, communities, organizations, and learners.
IFERB has reached 6.5 million+ learners in 14+ countries who demonstrated almost 20% learning progress with minimal supervision and resources. 70% of the partners have sustained the solution independently even after the pilot ended. To support organizations to implement IFERB without IDD's support, the IFERB+ Toolkit will be available on the website with all the required tools (reports, MEL, training, etc.). IFERB will conduct an external impact report of the solution and aims for government accreditation in 3 countries.
All the IFERB resources can be downloaded for free from the Innovation Development's site: www.resources.educationaboveall.org. To implement IFERB through partnerships or for access to backend tools, reach out to the Innovations Development Directorate at EAA via email: innovations@eaa.org.qa.