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ROLE PURPOSE: As a member of the Programme Development & Quality (PDQ) Team, the Education Specialist will be responsible for developing and implementing education strategy for the country office including humanitarian, early recovery and development. In close coordination with the program operations team, the Education Specialist will provide technical guidance and oversight in the development, implementation, monitoring and reporting of all education activities, ensuring that they are impleme...

Zimbabwe receives 3 000 radio sets for lessons Zimbabwe receives 3 000 radio sets for lessons T HE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has donated        3 000 radio sets to benefit disadvantaged school-going children who have no access to the gadgets which are now being used to offer educational lessons amid the Covid-19 pandemic.   With the recent surge in active positive cases of the lethal virus in schools, the government resolved that learners should attend lessons on an al...

Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait, visited a refugee site in the village of Modale, located 30 kms from Yakoma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Courtesy: Education Cannot Wait GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 27 2021 (IPS) - Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central African Republic refugee children and youth to access quality education during her visit to a refugee site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from ...

By Judith Raupp Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has sounded the alarm on the need for Central African Republic refugee children and youth to access quality education during her visit to a refugee site in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from Apr. 20-23.

4.7 million refugee, displaced and host community children and youth in urgent need of educational support ECW Director Yasmine Sherif visits the Modale ‘Settlement of Hope’ with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of the Congo , Apr 23 2021 - Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Director Yasmine Sherif today called on world leaders to urgently support the children and youth in desperate need of education support in...

UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education visits Uganda The Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education, Helen Grant MP, visited Uganda to see the work the UK is doing to help girls access quality education. From: 26 April 2021 Helen Grant MP, visited Uganda from 24 to 26 March to see first-hand the work the UK is doing to help girls access and benefit from quality education in Uganda to build back better together from coronavirus. Her visit included a meeting w...

Education Cannot Wait and the UN Refugee Agency Announce US$2 Million Grant from ECW to Respond to the Central African Refugee Influx in The Democratic Republic of the Congo Format New emergency grant will provide learning opportunities for refugee and host community girls and boys in DRC settlements near the border of both countries 21 April 2021, Modale Village, Nord-Ubangi Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Education Cannot Wait Director Yasmine Sherif and UN High Commissioner fo...

The Climate-Education Crisis April 22, 2021 As we mark Earth Day 2021, we must expand our focus to acknowledge the deepening links between the climate crisis and education – an area where we desperately need to translate good intentions and financial commitments into meaningful action. . C limate change threatens the very future of humanity. Entire villages are already being washed to sea, and conflicts over scarce resources are intensifying around the world. Each year, more and more families...

Cox’s Bazar Rohingya Refugee Camp had one of highest rates of primary and secondary age children out of school. Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the multilateral global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, immediately allocated millions to urgently scale up learning spaces for displaced Rohingya children. ECW is preparing an additional multi-year allocation to support continuous learning opportunities for Rohingya children in 2021 and beyond A Rohingya girl proudly ho...

WFP Libya Country Brief, March 2021 Format 900 mt of food assistance in March 2021 USD 359,000 of voucher assistance in March 2021 USD 9.9 million six-month net funding requirements (May – October 2021) Operational Updates • In March, WFP reached over 105,000 people in need through its programmes in Libya, which include general and emergency food distributions, provision of commodity e-vouchers, food assistance for training activities and school feeding. • Over 23,000 vulnerable individua...