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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.

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.

El personal docente refugiado y quienes trabajan en campos de refugiados soportan una responsabilidad aún más abrumadora. La voz de Aloyo Stella resonó con contundencia durante su intervención en el Foro de Alto Nivel "La educación no puede esperar": "Desearía que pudieran ponerse en mi lugar durante una hora. Así entenderían la realidad en la que vivimos. Ser una docente refugiada implica trabajar con 200 estudiantes en un aula, ayudar a los niños y niñas a desenvolverse en un lugar desconocido, con escaso material didáctico o apoyo, todo por un salario de 120 USD al mes, que no es suficiente para alimentar a nuestra familia y que ni siquiera se nos paga a tiempo”. Stella concluyó su intervención en el Foro con un llamado a la acción: "Yo estoy haciendo mi parte, hagan ustedes la suya".

Refugee teachers and those working in refugee camps shoulder an even heavier burden. Aloyo Stella's voice echoed powerfully when she spoke at the Education Cannot Wait High Level Forum: “ I wish you could stand in my shoes for an hour. You would understand where I am coming from.” Being a refugee teacher means working with 200 students in your classroom, helping children navigate an unfamiliar place with little in the way of teaching materials or support, all for USD 120 a month that is not enough to feed your family and that is not even paid on time. Stella ended her intervention at the Forum with a call to action: “I am doing my part, do your part.”

In this report TVC News Jesse Tafida takes a look at how the 13 year Boko Haram insurgency has shattered the dreams of millions of children who are set to be the leaders of tomorrow.

13 year old Yagana Umar, displaced with her mother from Monguno Local Council.

This is Yagana today.

She’s back to school, learning alongside her new friends.

This was made possible due to effort put in place by Government, UNICEF and Education Cannot Wait.

The fourth edition of the regional forum "Education Beyond Borders, regional solidarity for ensuring the right to education for people in mobility contexts", held in Santiago on January 23 and 24, 2024, was organized by UNESCO together with the Regional Education Group for Latin America and the Caribbean. The event was part of the multi-year resilience program of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and was supported by the Government of Canada (GAC).

Advocacy and Resource Mobilization

• Collaborated with refugee working group on donor roundtable discussion in Addis Ababa on humanitarian education needs, with eight high-level donors represented

• Prepared EiE funding analysis for Ethiopia

• Continued liaising with Education Cannot Wait for development of Phase II of the Multi Year Resilience Programme for Ethiopia (2024-2026)

With the growing prevalence and length of conflicts worldwide, already widespread gender disparities in entry to education are more likely to improve. The penalties of those rising academic disparities shall be detrimental for each the ladies themselves and their communities.

“Conflicts are really exacerbating existing inequalities in access to education and skills building, particularly adolescent girls and girls with other intersecting vulnerabilities, such as the girls with disabilities or refugee girls or who are forcibly displaced,” mentioned Jihane Latrous, gender supervisor at Education Cannot Wait, a world fund dedicated to discovering methods to satisfy the tutorial wants of kids impacted by conflicts.

Wata Kungiya Mai Zaman Kanta, Wato “Ilimi Baza Ta Jira Ba” (ECW) , mai sadaukar da kai ga ilimi a cikin gaggawa da kuma rikice-rikice masu tsayi, ta sanar da shirin ware dalar Amurka miliyan 15 don sabunta shirin ECW na tsawon shekaru da yawa a Arewa maso Gabashin Najeriya.