Extreme heat and schooling: Proposal for financing strategies to protect learning and safeguard children's future

To protect children's learning and education trajectories education systems need to be more resilient to extreme heat and reduce the negative impact on children's school attendance and learning. It proposes financing the retrofitting or new construction of schools that are heat ready and can provide proper thermal conditions for learning, complemented with proper planning that could identify the risks and guide investments and also adapt the school calendar towards cooler days.

Project Detail

Country

Brazil

Project Number

BR-G1030

Approval Date

Project Status

Preparation

Project Type

Investment Grants

Sector

EDUCATION

Subsector

SECONDARY EDUCATION

Lending Instrument

Lending Instrument Code

Modality

Facility Type

Environmental and Social Impact Category (ESIC)

Category B: Likely to cause mostly local and short-term negative environmental and associated social impacts and for which effective mitigation measures are readily available

Total Cost

Country Counterpart Financing

Original Amount Approved

USD 10,000,000.00