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In support of this week’s Education Cannot Wait conference in Geneva and its call for learning support in emergencies, Somaya has been speaking to UN News’s Daniel Johnson. She strongly believes education can help change discriminatory views about girls, women and their place in society.

I risultati ottenuti dalla conferenza di alto livello di Ginevra per il rifinanziamento del Fondo Education Cannot Wait, non soddisfano i bambini e le bambine: questo perchè è stato raccolto poco più della metà dell'obiettivo di 1,5 miliardi di dollari per promuovere l'istruzione nelle emergenze e nelle peggiori crisi umanitarie del mondo. I minori presenti alla conferenza ci hanno riferito che i leader devono ascoltare le bambine e i bambini nelle aree di crisi e dare priorità ai finanziamenti per garantire a tutti l'accesso a un'istruzione sicura e di qualità. 

Ireland is now committed to providing €4.5 million annually to support the work of Education Cannot Wait, the global fund to support education for emergencies. This support will amount to €18 million in the period to 2026.

Ms Tvinnereim today announced an allocation of NOK 500 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, for the period 2023–2026. Ms Tvinnereim is attending ECW’s High-level Financing Conference in Geneva this week.

‘’Finland aims to promote high-quality and inclusive education that is open and equitable to all. The focus is on the most vulnerable girls, people with disabilities and children and young people living in crisis areas. We will promote this objective through multilateral partnerships, such as the Education Cannot Wait fund, and as part of country programmes in our partner countries. Finnish civil society organisations are doing valuable work to achieve this goal’," says Permanent Under-Secretary Pasi Hellman.

"Thank you to the co-hosts and co-conveners of this high-level financing conference – Education Cannot Wait and the governments of Colombia, Germany, Niger, Norway, South Sudan and Switzerland. Thank you also to our esteemed panelists – the youth advocates and Ministers of Education – for your thoughtful discussion and recommendations."

Education Cannot Wait’s Director Yasmine Sherif said that about USD 70 million had gone to education in Afghanistan, and nearly 60 percent of that funding has gone to supporting girls; more funding was on its way. “We have an ongoing program that has continued—it did not stop.”It has been more than 500 days since the Taliban regime in Afghanistan shut down schools and shattered the education dreams of girls and women like Somaya Faruqi, who has been forced to leave her homeland to continue her education.

Today, Administrator Samantha Power announced that the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Department of State, is providing an additional $43 million to Education Cannot Wait (ECW), subject to the availability of funds. ECW is the only global fund for education in emergencies. The Administrator made the announcement virtually during ECW’s High-Level Financing Conference in Geneva. 

Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) granted USD 20 million in support of the efforts of the Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a UN's global fund to support education in emergencies and protracted crises, in favor of projects jointly agreed with the Educate A Child (EAC) program of the Education Above All Foundation (EAA), HE Director General of the QFFD Khalifa bin Jassim Al Kuwari announced on Thursday.

Ireland is now committed to providing €4.5 million annually to support the work of Education Cannot Wait, the global fund to support education for emergencies. This support will amount to €18 million in the period to 2026.

Delivering his comments at the Education Cannot Wait High-Level Financing Conference in Geneva, the Secretary-General welcomed the fact that since it was founded in 2017, the fund had trained 87,000 teachers and given seven million children in crisis “the education they deserve”.

Brown stressed the need to speak up for children in Afghanistan, Chad, Ethiopia, Yemen, Ukraine, and many more, for they are the most neglected, forgotten, and isolated, and they need and deserve support. Brown was speaking during the opening session of the first Education Cannot Wait (ECW) high-level financing conference underway in Geneva, Switzerland.