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Selon l’organisation Éducation sans délai (Education Cannot Wait en anglais, ou ECW), le nombre d’établissements d’enseignement fermés de force ou qui n’offrent plus de cours a augmenté d’un tiers en deux ans. À la fin de l’année scolaire 2021-22, plus de 12.400 écoles ont été fermées au Burkina Faso, au Cameroun, en République centrafricaine (RCA), en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), au Mali, au Niger et au Tchad.

As we unite to #ProtectEducationFromAttack and help realize the 222 Million Dreams of 222 million crisis-affected girls and boys who urgently need education support – ECW and our strategic partners are calling on government donors, the private sector, foundations and high-net-worth individuals to step up and make substantial contributions at Education Cannot Wait’s High-Level Financing Conference, taking place in Geneva in February 2023.

Después de las catastróficas inundaciones en Pakistán este año, las oportunidades para millones de jóvenes pakistaníes penden de un hilo. Las inundaciones han causado pérdidas de más de 10.000 millones de euros y es urgente la asistencia para reconstruir.

Global Citizen is calling on world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly, as well as major corporations and philanthropic foundations, to take to the Global Citizen Festival stages and announce new commitments to End Extreme Poverty NOW, including: investing $600 million into the future of women and girls.

Global Citizen is calling on world leaders gathered at the United Nations General Assembly, as well as major corporations and philanthropic foundations, to take to the Global Citizen Festival stages and announce new commitments to End Extreme Poverty NOW, including: investing $600 million into the future of women and girls.

In some areas, the response has begun. Already 30 temporary schools have been set up in Pishin for 3,600 children, including 1,100 girls. And teaching materials will reach 35,000 children in Sindh and Punjab very soon.

This all costs money. In addition to the immediate funding of $2 million (£1.74 million) that the Education Cannot Wait Fund is now investing to respond to the most urgent needs, some of the funding set aside for the humanitarian development multi-year programme will be redirected to Pakistan.

In addition to immediate support to limit further loss of life from this summer’s floods, Pakistan needs funding to prevent further loss of learning among children who already missed out on months of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of young people’s futures now hang in the balance.

NEW YORK, Sep 2 2022 (IPS) - As we approach this year’s Transforming Education Summit, global leaders can and must prioritize expertise and mobilize political will to support efforts to ensure inclusive and quality education for all, especially girls.

Girls’ education is in jeopardy once again under the renewed Taliban rule. Last March, the Taliban banned girls’ access to secondary school. According to Education Cannot Wait, a global U.N. fund for education, an estimated 8 million school-aged children need urgent support to access education.

Hiding in basements during bombings, fleeing their homes, going hungry, and facing the devastating and life-transformative traumas of losing their loved ones as their childhoods go up in flames of war. These are the lived experiences of crisis-impacted children and adolescents.

“They have also seen militia, army and may have been subjected to war crimes, violations of international law, sexual violence and torture. When you go through such experiences, without a doubt, you are going to suffer some form of trauma,” says Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.

The Report indicates that ECW investments have reached close to 7 million children and adolescents – 48.4 per cent of whom are girls – since becoming operational in 2017. Moreover, of all children reached by ECW’s investments to date, half are girls, and 43 per cent are refugee or internally displaced children.

‘We Have Promises to Keep’ – Education Cannot Wait results report shows how investments reach 7 million crisis-impacted children and adolescents in the world’s toughest contexts. However, the report indicates there is still much work to be done as 222 million school-aged children and adolescents caught in crises urgently need educational support.