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As of 2022, there were an estimated 222 million school-aged children impacted by crises, including armed conflict, requiring educational support⁴. Keeping dreams alive for thousands of these children is crucial.  

As of 2022, there were an estimated 222 million school-aged children impacted by crises, including armed conflict, requiring educational support⁴. Keeping dreams alive for thousands of these children is crucial.  

First, we recognise the EU’s efforts to address global challenges. The UK is proud of our work alongside the EU to establish Energy Transition Partnerships. We also welcome the EU’s considerable support for the UN’s Education Cannot Wait fund.

During the first-ever pledging conference for education in emergencies, countries and other donors vowed Thursday to provide $826 million for Education Cannot Wait's work for the next four years.

First, we recognise the EU’s efforts to address global challenges. The UK is proud of our work alongside the EU to establish Energy Transition Partnerships. The ETP has helped coal-dependent emerging economies make a just energy transition by building on the model pioneered at COP26, and we look forward to continuing this work through COP28. We also welcome the EU’s considerable support for the UN’s Education Cannot Wait fund. As a co-founder of the fund, the UK values this support to high quality education in emergencies.

As of 2022, there were an estimated 222 million school-aged children impacted by crises, including armed conflict, requiring educational support⁴. Keeping dreams alive for thousands of these children is crucial.  

As of 2022, there were an estimated 222 million school-aged children impacted by crises, including armed conflict, requiring educational support⁴. Keeping dreams alive for thousands of these children is crucial.  

El ministro de Desarrollo Internacional, Harjit S. Sajjan, subrayó que la financiación también estará destinada para el Programa Plurianual de Resiliencia del fondo La Educación No Puede Esperar (ECW, por sus siglas en inglés) en Bangladesh, como parte de la estrategia de Canadá para responder a las crisis de Rohingya y Myanmar.

La semana pasada, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), el fondo global de la ONU para la educación en emergencias y crisis prolongadas, organizó una Cumbre de Financiación de Alto Nivel (HLFC) en Ginebra para generar voluntad política para financiar una educación de calidad, inclusiva y transformadora para más de 222 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes que viven en situaciones de crisis y conflicto en todo el mundo. 

The biggest names in music, entertainment, philanthropy, public policy, climate activism and the corporate sector are set to convene in New York City for Global Citizen NOW, the thought leadership summit from Global Citizen, where ideas become impact. Participants will include C.D. Glin, President, The PepsiCo Foundation; Catherine McKenna, Former Minister of Environment & Climate Change of Canada; climate activist Vanessa Nakate; Alok Sharma, President of COP26; and Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director, Education Cannot Wait, with more to be announced.

Under the Multi-Year Resilience Programme, funded by Education Cannot Wait, UNESCO has been working with teachers and schools in Palestine to make learning fun for children. Find out how the project has been making an impact at one school in Beitunia.

Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, recently launched its Postcards from the Edge campaign to zoom in for a closer look. A postcard from 14-year-old Lucas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo sent a message to the UN Refugee Agency: “I ask world leaders and UNHCR to think of us refugee children and provide funding to let us finish our studies.”