Blogue What is the declaration on girls' education, why does it matter, and what's next? The Prime Minister set out early his intention to ensure that girls’ education was at the heart of the UK’s G7 Presidency. With more than 130 million girls out of school before the pandemic and up to 20 million girls at risk of not returning to school once they reopen after COVID-19, this focus was not only welcome but urgently needed.
Blogue COVID-19 and girls’ learning continuity in South Asia: Misplaced anxiety or justified fear? In the summer of 2020, just a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic had spread around an under-prepared world, a group of girls’ education activists, researchers and practitioners came together to review the situation and share their initial responses to school closures in South Asia.
Evento Primer Foro de la Iniciativa Mundial de Escuelas Seguras de la Región SICA Primer Foro de la Iniciativa Mundial de Escuelas Seguras de la Región SICA. Fechas: 12, 15, 16 y 17 de noviembre Hora: 09:00 horas Centroamérica Con la participación de expertos de Centroamérica y República Dominicana. Registro y otras informaciones sobre el programa, aquí: https://bit.ly/3BGGWwG
Blogue Where are the girls and why it matters as schools reopen? “Where are the girls?” It’s a question that is asked too much when stepping into classrooms around the world. And the further up the school years we go, the more the question bounces around an echo chamber.
Recurso NEAT+ The NEAT+ is a project-level screening tool, specifically designed for situations of displacement, which combines environmental data with site-specific and activity-based questions to automatically analyze and flag priority environmental risks.
Recurso Empowering Teachers as Agents of Social Cohesion: Continuing Professional Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa This article explores one continuing professional development (CPD) programme in South Africa to promote social cohesion (SC) in schools and classrooms. Drawing upon the experiences of ten teachers who attended this programme, the article analyses the ways in which this programme capacitated them to become active agents of transformation and change.
Recurso EdTech Global Landscape Analysis: Trends from the present and near future of technology-enabled learning We hope this scan and analysis can serve as an ongoing resource to those in the humanitarian sector and beyond. We hope it will provoke their thinking about what possibilities exist to serve their learning and education challenges, and how trends in the sector are moving toward or away from the kinds of solutions they might need for their work.
Recurso La situación de la Educación con Personas Jóvenes y Adultas en América Latina y el Caribe en contexto de pandemia Mirada descriptiva y analítica de las iniciativas impulsadas en América Latina y el Caribe en Educación con Personas Jóvenes y Adultas durante la pandemia.
Notícias Education Cannot Wait Calls for Urgent Funding to Fulfill the Right to Education for all Children and Youth in Afghanistan Immediately following the first all-women UN mission to Afghanistan since takeover by the de facto authorities, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait – the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – appealed to donors to significantly increase financial support for a robust collective humanitarian-development nexus response.
Recurso The use of ‘building blocks’ to develop digital platforms for education in sub-Saharan Africa We set out to investigate the existing and potential use cases of open-source, modular ‘building blocks’ to build digital platforms for education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Building blocks fall into two main categories: teaching and learning (e.g., learning management systems) and education system management (e.g., data collection tools).
