Education Events at the GRF 2019
We are less than a week away from the first Global Refugee Forum, to be held in Geneva 16th-18th December!
The Global Refugee Forum (GRF) is designed to build momentum for the achievement of the Global Compact on Refugees, to highlight the needs of refugees and mobilize concrete action. The Forum itself will address a number of core themes, including, of course, education. There will be a high level discussion on education, spotlight sessions on education, as well as market place displays on education.
INEE is fully committed to ensuring that education is an integral part of the GRF and that many of the commitments and pledges that the GRF generates are for education in crisis contexts. [See our recent blog post, which includes the full text of one of our own pledges, as well as our recent webinar on the importance of Refugee Education and sharing of best practices before the GRF]. Several INEE Secretariat staff and many INEE partners will be participating in the GRF events, and we will do our best to keep you apprised of the developments during and after the forum.
Below is a shortlist of education-related GRF events.
16 December 2019
10:00 - 10:45
[Spotlight] Teachers shoulder the burden: Improving support in crisis contexts (flyer)
Organizers: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Teachers College - Columbia University, Education International
10:00-11:30
[Spotlight] Early Childhood Development: Meeting the needs of Young Children & Caregivers Affected by Crisis & Development
Organizers: International Rescue Committee (IRC), LEGO Foundation, Moving Minds Alliance, Save the Children, Sesame Workshop, UNICEF
10:45-11:30
[Spotlight] Broadening the base for education - Technical and Vocational Education and Training (flyer)
Organizers: Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany, Finn-Church Aid, ILO
11:30-13:00
[Spotlight] Our Commitment to the 52%: how can we make the Global Compact on Refugees work for every child?"
Organizers: Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Faith Action for Children on the Move Coalition, Initiative for Child Rights in the Global Compact, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW)
11:30-13:00
[Spotlight] Reframing Education in Emergencies
Organizers: EiE Co-sponsorship Task Team, Turkey
13:30-17:30
[Parallel event] University Refugee Forum: Access to higher education for refugees (flyer)
Organizers: University of Geneva, In Zone, Horizon Académique
13:10-13:20
[Speakers’ Corner] Refugee Student Network and education priorities
Organizers: Refugee Student Network
14:10-14:20
[Speakers’ Corner] European Qualifications Passport for Refugees
Organizers: Council of Europe
15:00-16:30
[Spotlight] Securing her Future: Proven approaches to ensuring a quality secondary education for refugee girls
Moderated by Dean Brooks, INEE Director
Organizers: Malala Fund, Plan International, UN Women, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE),
16:30-18:00
[Spotlight] Financing the Education Commitment in the Global Compact on Refugees
Organizers: Al Ghurair Foundation, Education Cannot Wait, Global Partnership for Education, Save the Children, World Bank
17 December 2019
12:40-12:50
[Speakers’ Corner] Refugee children in host community schools - providing tutoring support for retention and learning
Organizers: International Rescue Committee (IRC)
13:00-14:30
[Spotlight] Inclusion of refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced in national education systems
Organizers: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), Switzerland - Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation (SDC), Task Team on Inclusion Co-sponsorship Alliance
13:40-13:50
[Speakers’ Corner] Education Connected Learning for Higher Education and access to meaningful employment
Organizers: Kepler - University Program in Kigali and Kiziba Refugee Camp in Rwanda with Southern New Hampshire University
18 December 2019
11:00-13:00
High-level dialogue on education (Parallel session IV)
Interventions from the floor
13:10-13:20
[Speakers’ Corner] Education Promoting integration of Syrian children into the Turkish education system
Organizers: Ministry of National Education, Turkey
13:30-17:00
[Spotlight] Tertiary Education
Organizers: Germany, Tertiary Co-sponsorship Task Team
13:50-14:00
[Speakers’ Corner] Education Early Childhood Education on Greek Islands - a bridging programme on language, social & emotional skills and school preparation
Organizers: University of Patras, Greece
14:10-14:20
[Speakers’ Corner] Education Project Stand Up: refugee-led initiative in Malaysia
Organizers: Project Stand up
14:20-14:30
[Speakers’ Corner] Education / Protection Capacity Tackling child marriage and associated negative coping mechanisms among refugee populations
Organizers: Malala Fund