Resource Educators for Change: Supporting the Transformative Role of Teachers in Contexts of Mass Displacement Authors Tejendra Pherali, Mai Abu Moghli, and Elaine Chase argue that teachers can support refugee students’ future trajectories more effectively when their local knowledge, capacities, and creativity are mobilized.
Resource The Emerging Role of Corporate Actors as Policymakers in Education in Emergencies: Evidence from the Syria Refugee Crisis Authors Zeena Zakharia and Francine Menashy suggest that a surge in corporate support of refugee education has increased the private authority of corporate actors in education in emergencies policy spaces.
Resource Book Review: "Global Education Monitoring Report 2019: Migration, Displacement and Education—Building Bridges, Not Walls" by the Global Education Monitoring Report Team In this review of the 2019 "Global Education Monitoring Report," Bethany Mulimbi gives an overview of the report, including the multiple ways education and migration relate to each other.
Resource Book Review: Peace Education: International Perspectives edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos In this review of Peace Education: International Perspectives, edited by Monisha Bajaj and Maria Hantzopoulos, Samira N. Chatila provides an overview of the importance of peace education in supporting peacebuilding in emergencies and defines the link between peace education and violence.
Event Child Protection and COVID-19 (Including Considerations for Refugee Populations) Children in refugee contexts are at heightened risks of abuse, neglect, exploitation and violence risks during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the Alliance of Child Protection in Humanitarian Action with UNHCR will be hosting a webinar to explore the key considerations for adapting child protection responses in refugee settings to the current pandemic, including broader protection considerations.
Blog How to ensure everyone can continue learning amid the coronavirus situation With more than 1.5 billion children and youth impacted by COVID-19 related school closures, there has been a push to explore online and digital resources to promote continuity via virtual learning.
News Coronavirus could cause 'carnage' among the world's refugees, aid groups say The coronavirus outbreak threatens to inflict "carnage" on refugees around the world who often live in cramped conditions, lack access to clean water and are in countries with failing or stretched medical systems, humanitarian aid groups say.
Resource COVID-19: How to include marginalized and vulnerable people in risk communication and community engagement Women, the elderly, adolescents, youth, and children, persons with disabilities, indigenous populations, refugees, migrants, and minorities experience the highest degree of socio-economic marginalization. Marginalized people become even more vulnerable in emergencies.
Resource Arab States 2019 GEM Report on migration, displacement and education Below is the recording and presentations of the webinar hosted by INEE and the Global Education Monitoring on the 2019 GEM Report on Migration, displacement and education in the Arab States on Wednesday, 18 March 2020.
Blog Refugee Girls Top in South Sudan Certificate of Primary Education Examinations Roza and Aida, both attribute their success to hard work, constant revision, following teachers’ advice, and paying attention in class.
