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ECW’s second Strategic Plan covers the period 2023-2026. The plan describes how ECW will build on its proven model, while catalyzing new solutions in response to the growing needs in the sector. The plan embodies the...

This Annual Results Report presents the progress made by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) in 2021. It captures ECW's performance in inspiring political commitment, raising additional funding for education in emergencies and protracted crises and supporting...

This is the executive summary of Education Cannot Wait (ECW)'s 2021 Annual Results Report. It summarizes the progress made by ECW to achieve its strategic objectives and support quality education outcomes for children and adolescents...

Schools should be a safe place for children to learn and play, but that is far from the reality for many children. The Safe to Learn initiative and End Violence Partnership, with the support of...

This brief provides an overview of ECW’s 2022 study "Global Estimates: Number of Crisis-affected Children and Adolescents in Need of Education Support" and highlights the alarming and devastating data on girls and boys missing out...

This new study proposes a new methodology that leverages the latest, most granular available data on crisis severity, children with functional difficulties, forcibly displaced children, out-of-school rates and data from learning outcomes from UNICEF MICS...

This study was commissioned by the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies (EiE Hub), with support from Education Cannot Wait and the Government of Switzerland.

Millions of children and youth are being denied their...

A report by the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA), "Education Under Attack 2022" looks at a global study of attacks on schools, universities, their students and staff, in 2020 and 2021. Education is...

The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Policy and Accountability Framework on Disability Inclusion, developed during 2021, provides a blueprint to ensure that the ECW Secretariat realizes disability inclusion, both internally and through its investments and partnerships...

ECW Brief: ‘Advancing gender equality and girls’ education in emergencies and protracted crises — A call to action to Empower Her’

The ECW ‘Call to action to Empower Her’ – which is cosigned by Germany’s Minister...

This guidance note is primarily aimed at ECW Secretariat staff and FERs and MYRPs country teams to provide guidance on operational programming approaches that help grantees reach the most marginalized girls, particularly out-of-school adolescent girls...

The Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Multi-Year Resilience Programme (MYRP) Modality Evaluation presents the findings of an independent review conducted by Oxford Policy Management of the multi-year funding modality. This report evaluates the development process, design...