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This guide builds on the UN Framework for Reopening Schools and the Safe Back to School Practitioners Guide, and other guidance developed to help governments and school communities to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. It goes further, calling for action to ‘build back equal’ – promoting the development of gender-responsive education systems and targeted actions to ensure girls’ continuity of learning and return to school when these reopen. This guide has been developed for policymakers and practitioners in Ministries of Education, including those directly involved in the planning and delivery of formal and non-formal education, from pre-primary through higher education. The guide provides targeted inputs to ensure continuity of learning during school closures, and comprehensive, timely and evidence-based plans for reopening schools in a way that is safe, gender-responsive and child-friendly, and meets the needs of the most marginalized girls.