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With the growing number of natural disasters and conflicts around the world, it is no surprise that the amount of children displaced by climate emergencies or conflict has grown exponentially and will continue to rise. Whether forced to flee because of a hurricane, earthquake, or active or protracted conflict, the physical act of leaving your home, your safe place, and oftentimes your family, is a compounded traumatic event that will inevitably induce a grieving process.

This loss can be an overwhelming and an emotionally painful experience which may affect each child differently. However, the emotional and physiological impact of displacement is often ignored in educational responses for children.

“[When we were established], there were 75 million youth whose education was disrupted. Today, there are 222 million of them,” said Yasmine Sherif, director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations’ global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.

La Alcaldía Distrital de Santa Marta, el Consejo Noruego para Refugiados y la fundación Education Cannot Wait realizarán el Primer Foro Educativo Aceleración del Aprendizaje ‘Un espacio de inclusión y oportunidades de transformación en el aula’, este martes 15 de noviembre, entre las 8:00 de la mañana y las 5:00 de la tarde en el Estelar Santamar Hotel y Centro de Convenciones.  

Los participantes viven en seis comunidades donde el CDH tiene Puntos de Apoyo dentro del proyecto La Educación es el Camino, que lideran la Unesco Quito, Acnur y Unicef Ecuador, con el financiamiento de Education Cannot Wait-ECW.

Nov 11 2022 - Justin van Fleet, Ph.D, is President of Theirworld and Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Justin previously served as the Director of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity and Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and prior to that as a Fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Universal Education.

Con el objetivo de disminuir la deserción escolar y fortalecer las capacidades protectoras de los docentes y familias, desde el proyecto ‘La educación no puede esperar’, con el apoyo de Education Cannot Wait y World Vision, se continúan desarrollando las actividades, conmemoraciones y demás estrategias de aprendizaje para motivar a las niñas y niños migrantes, retornados y de acogida a no desistir de sus estudios y continuar con sus procesos formativos.

Justin van Fleet, Ph.D, is President of Theirworld and Executive Director of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Justin previously served as the Director of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity and Chief of Staff to the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and prior to that as a Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education.

So many crises affect the world today, and they are only increasing in number. Conflict, natural disasters and other emergencies all force people to flee their homes, further fueling the education crisis. If we want to stand any chance of achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 - inclusive and equitable quality education for all by 2030 - we must tackle education in emergencies. Governments and donors must step up and show their support for Education Cannot Wait in Geneva.

UNESCO  invita al evento de lanzamiento de la Estrategia regional del respuesta de la UNESCO a la situación de personas en contexto de movilidad en América Latina y el Caribe (2022-2025), un marco de acción actualizado en torno a educación y movilidad humana para potenciar la colaboración regional.

En el webinario se presentará la estrategia, se abordarán experiencias provenientes de los países de la región, buenas prácticas desde la labor de la UNESCO en la región, de la sociedad civil y desde el Grupo Regional de Educación. Asimismo, serán presentados los resultados del informe del Programa multianual de resiliencia de Education Cannot Wait: Garantizar el derecho a la educación de estudiantes en situación de movilidad.

The Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif, and the UNICEF Representative, Grant Leaity, called on donors worldwide to provide US$45 million in urgent, additional funding to support ECW’s Multi-Year Resilience Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country facing one of the world’s most overlooked crises.

The Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif, launched a strong call for public and private donors to step up funding, asking them to "show the same courage" she saw in the children she met during her week-long visit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

At TES, there was the formal launch of the International Finance Facility for Education, a loans-based mechanism that will support education in lower-middle income countries. This is welcomed, since these countries are home to some of the largest numbers of out-of-school children. There was also new funding announced for UNGEI and the Education Cannot Wait fund.