Education Cannot Wait Enhances Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Crisis-Affected Children and Youth in the Middle East and North Africa
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New $250,000 ECW Acceleration Facility grant will enhance Norwegian Refugee Council’s Better Learning Programme
4 May 2021, New York – Approximately 100 million children are out of school in the Middle East and North Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts and protracted crises. To provide these girls and boys with the mental health and psychosocial support they need to deal with the trauma and stress of these multiplying crises, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$250,000 in new funding to support the Norwegian Refugee Council’s Better Learning Programme in the Middle East.
Collaboration Across Child Protection in Humanitarian Action and Education in Emergencies
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Introduction
Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) and Education in Emergencies (EiE) are highly complementary areas of humanitarian response. Conceptually, programmatically, and operationally the two sectors have much in common: both are child focused, both are priorities for affected populations, and, through collaboration, they can reinforce each other’s sectoral outcomes.
Many humanitarian and development actors have recognised this interdependence, and have developed guidance for practitioners, as well as laying out policies and procedures that promote integrated or joint programming across the two sectors, such as Save the Children’s Safe Schools Common Approach; IRC’s Safe Healing & Learning Spaces, and NRC’s Better Learning Programme. INEE & The Alliance, as well as the Global Education Cluster (GEC) and the Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CPAoR) have
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