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Sitting on a bench at Muningi Primary School in Goma, Justine can't help but smile. She has just received a school bag, pens and notebooks, after losing her school supplies when the Kanyaruchinya site for displaced people was dismantled at the start of February 2025.

Since 2021, Justine has been displaced multiple times. Originally from Rugari in Rutshuru, she fled the violence with her mother and siblings, finding refuge at the Kanyaruchinya site for displaced people just outside Goma. She slept in churches, lived in makeshift shelters and tried to continue her education despite the challenges.

In collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) and the Center for Educational Research and Development (CRDP), UNESCO Regional for UN Coordination for the Arab States, organized a high-level roundtable discussion titled “Digital Learning in Lebanon – Challenges and Opportunities.” The event gathered key education stakeholders, including representatives from the international community, donor agencies, United Nations organizations, and private schools, to explore the challenges and opportunities of digital learning in Lebanon.

Guerras, desastres naturales, desplazamientos forzados… Cuando las crisis golpean, la educación es lo primero que se pierde y lo último en recuperarse, dejando a millones de niños y niñas sin el derecho a aprender, condenando generaciones enteras a un futuro incierto.

Lo hemos visto en Gaza, donde casi el 88,5% de las escuelas han sido dañadas o destruidas, dejando a miles de niñas y niños sin la posibilidad de regresar a clases durante más de un año. Lo vemos en Sudán, donde más de 17 millones de niños y niñas han quedado fuera del sistema educativo.

Rural Dar’a, Syria – At thirteen, Mohamed carries a quiet strength that belies his years. Sitting inside the small tent he calls home; he recalls the days when playing with his siblings and cousins felt more like a reminder of his limitations than a source of joy. “I always felt inferior,” he admits. “I thought I was not as good as them. But today, after I started my learning journey, I felt that gap disappear. In my last exam, I even scored higher than some of my classmates.”

En el marco de la Semana de Acción Mundial por la Educación 2025, de la comunidad educativa instan a los Estados a garantizar el a la Educación en Emergencias para los 234 millones de menores que carecen de una formación de calidad
 

Guerras, desastres naturales, desplazamientos forzados… Cuando las crisis golpean, la educación es lo primero que se pierde y lo último en recuperarse, dejando a millones de niños y niñas sin el derecho a aprender, condenando generaciones enteras a un futuro incierto.

International Girls in Information & Communication Technologies Day Statement by Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif

There is a global digital divide, threatening to leave entire generations of women and girls behind. Today, we place them at the centre of our shared massive action as we commemorate International Girls in ICT Day. Today, we reaffirm our commitment to harness the transformative power of education and provide these girls with the training, skills and resources they need to be part of the digital revolution that is shaping our planet. Today, we must recommit to financing their education.

Con el fin de lograr que las niñas, niños y adolescentes víctimas del conflicto, refugiados, migrantes y de comunidades de acogida accedan a una educación digna y de calidad sin barreras empezó la implementación del segundo Programa Multianual de Resiliencia Educativa (MYRP, por sus siglas en inglés).  Este programa es posible gracias al capital semilla del fondo de Naciones Unidas ‘La educación no puede esperar’ (Education Cannot Wait- ECW), para que la niñez, sin importar su condición o el lugar donde se encuentre, pueda acceder a su derecho a la educación.  En esta nueva fase de tres años, el programa se implementará en municipios priorizados de Chocó, Nariño, Norte de Santander y Arauca.

How many hours of classroom time have Ukrainian students lost due to air raid alerts? Which regions have experienced the greatest disruptions? And what can be done to reduce the impact? This article explores these and other key questions.

This article was prepared by the Center of Excellence of Education under the Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) and funded through Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. The MYRP in Ukraine is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. 

One in three children is out of school in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), leaving an estimated 30 million children between the ages of 5 and 18 without access to formal education. Access to schooling in the area had been improving over the last five decades, especially for girls, but a “recent string of crises [has resulted] in a staggering reversal of these [improvements],” according to UNICEF’s Edouard Beigbeder.

Ireland will provide additional support to help children in war zones and other disaster areas receive education.

Not only do children facing humanitarian disaster face poverty and displacement, they all too often miss out on education which can have a devastating long-term impact on their lives. In areas of prolonged crisis, children can miss years of school.

Ireland supported Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN’s fund for providing education to children in humanitarian crisis. This year, Ireland will provide ECW with €6 million to support its activities around the world.

El fondo, implementado desde 2019, ha beneficiado a Colombia en más de $28.1millones de dólares.

El Fondo de la ONU para la Infancia (Unicef) anunció que ya empezó el segundo Programa Multianual de Resiliencia Educativa, viable mediante el capital semilla del fondo ‘La educación no puede esperar’ (ECW por sus siglas en inglés). Con este,unos 180.000 niños y adolescentes tendrán la posibilidad de estudiar.