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In response to the armed conflict and escalating humanitarian crisis in North-east Nigeria that has left over one million girls and boys in need of educational support, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) yesterday announced US$20.1 million in catalytic investment grants to accelerate the response to the protracted crisis. The initial programme will run for three years, with the goal of leveraging an additional US$98.7 million in co-financing from national and global partners, the private sector and ph...

Education Cannot Wait approves US$20.1 million for multi-year resilience programme in Nigeria Format Three-year education programme for the protracted crisis in northeast Nigeria aims to reach 2.9 million children and youth in response to armed conflict and ongoing humanitarian needs 18 December 2020, New York -- In response to the armed conflict and escalating humanitarian crisis in northeast Nigeria that has left over 1 million girls and boys in need of educational support, Education Cannot W...

Meeting our promises to educate refugees during COVID-19 Format By Kevin Watkins, Chief Executive, Save the Children and Dr. Sonia Ben Jaafar, Chief Executive, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education This time last year, education stole the show at the first ever Global Refugee Forum, where hundreds of policy and financial pledges were made to get refugee children in school and learning. Twelve months on, we face a global education emergency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic -- and the in...

Follow #ThinkLandscape on Twitter and check out our updates World: UNHCR & Education Cannot Wait launch second phase of the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) - seeking promising education innovations that are ready to scale 17 December, 2020 - 13:10 Countries: Chad, Ethiopia, Jordan, Lebanon, Uganda, World Sources: UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Please refer to the attached file. Turning the commitments made on refugee education at the fir...

UNHCR & Education Cannot Wait launch second phase of the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) - seeking promising education innovations that are ready to scale Format Turning the commitments made on refugee education at the first Global Refugee Forum into concrete action requires innovative solutions, identifying what works and successfully scaling to meet the education needs of the millions of children who are living in emergency or crisis settings. Following the success of the first itera...

Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) Applicants’ Guide Format What is the HEA and how could it support your innovation? The Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) was established in 2016, through an initial partnership between UNHCR, UNICEF and the UK Department for International Development - to generate evidence that supports the design and delivery of high-quality education innovations at scale for children affected by humanitarian crises, whilst also building internal capacity of im...

Tue 15 Dec 2020 at 09:33 Education & Culture NNA - Concluding her latest mission to Lebanon, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) - the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises - highlighted the severe impact of multiple crises on the lives and education of the country’s ...

Education Cannot Wait’s high-level mission to Lebanon calls for urgent public and private sector donor support for education Format Mission provides the opportunity to initiate with partners the process for the planned ECW-funded multi-year resilience education programme in Lebanon 15 December 2020, Beirut --Concluding her latest mission to Lebanon, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) -- the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises -- highlighted th...

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF OPAC 2020 marks 20 years since the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict (OPAC). Ratified by 170 States, OPAC is an indispensable complement to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).  To celebrate this milestone, the Center for Children’s Rights Studies and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child planned a commemorative conference in Gen...

Dec 10 2020 - H.E. Mr. Stanislas Ouaro became the Minister of National Education and Literacy of Burkina Faso in February 2018 after a long academic career. Between 2012 and 2018, Mr. Ouaro was the President of the Université Ouaga II. Prior to that, the eminent mathematician held several teaching and administrative posts with Ouagadougou University. Mr. Ouaro is widely published, and has also served as the President of the Réseau pour l’Excellence de l’Enseignement Supérieur en Afrique...