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La estrategia Mi Escuela mi lugar Seguro promueve la inclusión y mitiga la discriminación en lugares donde vive población migrante y refugiada en Colombia. Tenga presente que el programa “La Educación No Puede Esperar”, integrado por el Consejo Noruego para Refugiados - NRC, Fundación PLAN, Save the Children, World Vision y UNICEF, le apuestan a la promoción de la inclusión con esta miniserie que busca llegar a todos los rincones de los hogares de las niñas y niños en Colombia.

Sheikha Alya explained that in 2023, Qatar and Education Above All committed to supporting education sectors in many African countries to provide quality education for over 2.3 million out-of-school children, adding that in 2023 also, Qatar donated USD20 million to support the Education Cannot Wait fund for education initiatives in emergencies and protracted crises.

The Education Cannot Wait global fund has given $8.5 million USD to a consortium led by FCA and partnering with Ukrainian organisations.

The ‘Empowering Children Through Education’ project will target children and teachers in Sumy, Poltava, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and Odesa oblasts.

Over 24 months, FCA and partners will rehabilitate and renovate schools and pre-schools to make them safe and modern places of learning. They will improve education quality by designing modular programmes for vocational education training, learning kits for use in shelters and specialised teacher training.

In New York, Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science, Oksen Lisovyi, and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced the launch of a multi-year resilience program that will take effect from March 2024 until February 2026. In addition to the 18 million, they called on donors to mobilize an additional USD 17 million to fully fund the program. The program is building on ECW’s previous investments in Ukraine, which totaled USD 6.5 million; this has already reached over 360,000 children and youth for the purpose of quality education support.

Міністр освіти та науки Оксен Лісовий підписав із фондом Education Cannot Wait угоду про виділення Україні міжнародного гранту у розмірі 18 млн доларів, які підуть на модернізацію шкільної освіти. Про це повідомляє РБК-Україна з посиланням на Укрінформ.

Selon le Fonds mondial des Nations Unies pour l’éducation en situation d’urgence (Education Cannot Wait), des centaines d’établissements d’enseignement ont été endommagés ou détruits pendant le conflit. Des estimations récentes indiquent que plus de 3.500 établissements d’enseignement ont été endommagés, dont plus de 340 détruits.

The Government of Ukraine and the UN-backed Education Cannot Wait (ECW) initiative announced $18 million in catalytic grant funding on Tuesday for a new Multi-Year Resilience Programme that will benefit over 150,000 children across ten of Ukraine’s most impacted areas.

The new catalytic grant builds on ECW’s $6.5 million in previous investments in Ukraine, which have already reached more than 360,000 children and youth – 65 per cent of whom are girls – with quality education support.

The new ECW grant was announced by Ukraine’s Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi and ECW’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif at UN Headquarters, in New York.

O Governo ucraniano e o fundo global "Educação Não Pode Esperar" anunciaram hoje 18 milhões de dólares (16,48 milhões de euros) em financiamento catalisador que beneficiará 150 mil crianças em dez das áreas mais afetadas pela guerra.
 

The Government of Ukraine and the UN-backed Education Cannot Wait (ECW) initiative announced $18 million in catalytic grant funding on Tuesday for a new Multi-Year Resilience Programme that will benefit over 150,000 children across ten of Ukraine's most impacted areas.

The new catalytic grant builds on ECW's $6.5 million in previous investments in Ukraine, which have already reached more than 360,000 children and youth - 65 per cent of whom are girls - with quality education support.

To that end, we also will need to mobilise sufficient financing for vehicles like Education Cannot Wait, the UN's global fund designed specifically to address the link between climate change, forced displacement and education. ECW has successfully rolled out education programmes in dozens of crisis-affected countries in recent years, and it remains fully committed to addressing“the obstacles that have prevented humanitarian and development actors from delivering quality education in humanitarian crises”.

ECW's replenishment summit on February 16-17 thus provides a timely opportunity not just to help children displaced by climate change and conflict, but also to emphasise that progress on the global education agenda is central to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. SDG4 calls on the international community to ensure, by 2030, that“all girls and boys complete free, equitable, and quality primary and secondary education”. To help reach the 222 million young people whose learning has been affected by conflicts and disasters, ECW aims to raise $1.5 billion for the 2023-26 period, a mere rounding error compared to what governments spend on arms and fossil-fuel subsidies.

So, let us not stop at the commemoration of International Women’s Day. Instead, let us start now with a significant increase in financing such proven solutions. Education Cannot Wait urges public and private sector donors and high-net-worth individuals to urgently mobilize $600 million to reach our target of US$1.5 billion in funding.

With these new resources, we will reach 20 million crisis-affected children and adolescents, including 12 million girls, with inclusive and continued quality education. This urgently needed increase in funding will provide a significant leap forward for our collective efforts to build a more equal world between women and men – through education that overcomes generational discrimination and builds leadership for humanity in the 21^st century.

So, let us not stop at the commemoration of International Women's Day. Instead, let us start now with a significant increase in financing such proven solutions. Education Cannot Wait urges public and private sector donors and high-net-worth individuals to urgently mobilize $600 million to reach our target of US$1.5 billion in funding.

With these new resources, we will reach 20 million crisis-affected children and adolescents, including 12 million girls, with inclusive and continued quality education. This urgently needed increase in funding will provide a significant leap forward for our collective efforts to build a more equal world between women and men – through education that overcomes generational discrimination and builds leadership for humanity in the 21st century.