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Un ejemplo notable de esfuerzos por mejorar la calidad educativa en zonas rurales es el proyecto ‘La educación no puede esperar’, financiado por Education Cannot Wait. Este proyecto ha logrado mejorar significativamente las condiciones, la permanencia y la pertinencia educativa para más de 13,100 participantes en su último año de implementación en 2023. Además, se han impartido talleres de bienestar docente a cientos de maestros y maestras de instituciones educativas ubicadas en La Guajira, Antioquia y Norte de Santander, brindándoles herramientas para enfrentar los desafíos únicos que enfrentan en sus roles como educadores rurales.

An educated heart cannot turn a blind eye to the unrelenting destruction of human life or nature. An educated heart acts to prevent the growing inequities in the world. An educated heart finds it unbearable to ignore the right of 226 million children to a quality education. According to Education Cannot Wait’s strategic partner Educo, humanitarian appeals to meet education demands have dramatically increased more than sevenfold in the last decade – from US$517 million to US$3.785 billion – while contributions have only increased fourfold over the same period, from US$190 million to US$805 million.

Al-Hol, northeast Syria – In the sprawling camp of Al-Hol, amidst basic living conditions and uncertainty, Rudayfah, a strong woman and mother of eight, found her calling as a teacher and a beacon of hope for children yearning to learn.

400 teachers were supported with training on class management and interactive teaching methods. The activities were funded with support from Education Cannot Wait. 

UNICEF addressed both access and learning challenges in education by supporting gender sensitive empirical evidence on school dropouts, school language, Early Learning Development Assessment Standards, gender-responsive budgeting, and improved provincial education data systems. This enabled the government to improve strategic planning and monitoring of education service delivery. UNICEF provided crucial coordination to the education sector through various platforms. At national level, UNICEF supported the coordination of the Education Sector Working Group (ESWG)-EiE focusing on the Education 2022 floods response, the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) and the Regional Response Plan (RRP) for Afghan Refugees.
 

Migrant and refugee children encounter the most difficulties accessing education, facing financial, documentation, social, and language barriers. The objective of this assessment is to inform the Education Cannot Wait consortium members and stakeholders about several factors influencing enrollment, dropout, and attendance in Libya.

In 2023, less than 20% of the education funding requirements were met in the Humanitarian Response Plan. Without sufficient aid to education, children’s rights will not be fulfilled, and the peace and recovery of the country could be at jeopardy.

The lack of funding for the education response in Yemen is reflected around the world and underscores the urgent need for humanitarian donors to fund education in crisis contexts.This includes funding education in humanitarian appeals and at the global level ensuring that Education Cannot Wait the global fund for education in emergencies is fully replenished.

In 2023, we pledged £80 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a global fund for education in emergencies, central to supporting education resilience in the face of increasing natural and man-made disasters. The FCDO‘s position paper, ‘Addressing the Climate, Environment, and Biodiversity Crises in and through Girls’ Education’ (2022), provides a framework of priority actions to build resilient and climate smart school systems. Increasingly, our bilateral education programmes are building climate resilience, and we are working, as leading donors, through global education funds – Global Partnership for Education and ECW – to protect education in the face of disasters.

ECW: Education Cannot Wait and Tribe Impact Capital share a joint ambition to ensure children impacted by armed conflicts, climate change and other protracted crises can realize their potential through a quality education. How can our two organizations work together to make this goal a reality?

Amy Clarke: Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is on the ground fighting for the educational rights of children around the world who are placed in harm’s way. These vulnerable children face a reality filled with instability and uncertainty – an unacceptable condition for any child’s upbringing. As ECW works tirelessly to address the immediate educational needs of these children, it’s crucial we also forge a path toward a future that promises fairness, justice and equity.

Uganda is preparing to celebrate its first-ever national children's play day on April 30, 2024 to raise awareness about the transformative power of play in a child's life and its crucial role in healthy development.

The national play day is a collaborative effort spearheaded by the Ugandan government and supported by renowned international organizations like UNICEF, the LEGO Foundation, Education Cannot Wait, and Plan International.

Enrollment drive was formally launched in Nowshera district on Thursday with an objective to bring back more than 28000 out-of-school kids in the district. Non-governmental organizations, Voluntary Service Overseas, Participatory Rural Development Society (PRDS) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) also distributed free school bags among the newly enrolled boys and girls students to encourage them.
 

In an exclusive interview with Radio Tamazuj, Jib, discusses the plight of returnee and refugee children who fled the war in Sudan and the precarious state they currently live in, especially those who were unaccompanied and or separated from their parents and or guardians.

Q:  What are you doing for children across the country apart from the emergency programs?

A: Save the Children is one of the leading implementers of the multi-year resilience program that is funded by Education Cannot Wait and other programs alongside numerous partners. We support expanding the capacity of schools, reconstruction of schools affected by the floods, ensure that children are enrolled and retained at school, and support the teachers and Teacher Parents Associations (PTAs). We have also been working to ensure flexible learning modalities, engaging with communities, and increasing awareness about the importance of education and why communities and parents should take children to school instead of marrying them off. 

To provide new hope for the girls and boys of the camp, UNICEF established a learning center that provides early childhood education for children between the ages of 3 and 5. The students now receive 10 sessions a week, with classes in math, English, Arabic, drawing, and art along with recreational activities designed to help the children learn — and grow — through play.

The activities at the school – auspiciously named “Dream” in Arabic – are funded in part by Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, hosted by UNICEF.

Since 2018, funding from Education Cannot Wait has reached more than 400,000 children in Syria with quality education supports