Event Integrating SEL & SDG 4.7 into Education Practice and Materials in Lower & Middle Income Countries The timeframe for achieving SDG 4 is tight but many efforts are underway to embed SDG Target 4.7 themes and integrate social and emotional learning (SEL) into policies, programs, curricula, materials and practice. While much of the work on SEL to date is located in high and upper-middle income countries, the NISSEM Global Briefs features 42 essays, interviews and reports from over 60 contributors describing promising, up-to-the-minute work in low-and-middle-income countries.
News World Leaders Pledge a Record US$216 Million to Education Cannot Wait During United Nations General Assembly The global fund for education in emergencies surpasses half-a-billion dollar milestone in resources mobilized to reach children and youth left furthest behind in crises.
News World Leaders Pledge a Record US$205 Million to Education Cannot Wait During United Nations General Assembly The global fund for education in emergencies surpasses half-a-billion dollar milestone in resources mobilized to reach children and youth left furthest behind in crises.
Event Ending Learning Poverty: What will it take to end the #LearningCrisis and Achieve SDG4? Latest World Bank research shows that only half of children in low- and middle-income countries can read and understand a short story by late primary age. Eliminating this learning poverty is as urgent a development objective as eliminating hunger, stunting, and extreme poverty. Meeting that objective requires taking forceful and urgent action.
Event UN General Assembly 2019 Education Side Events The 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 74) will open on 17 September 2019. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 24 September 2019.
Event Innovating for Education: Accelerating Progress towards SDG4 Join the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) for a reception event "Innovating for Education: Accelerating progress towards SDG4" during the UN General Assembly 2019. The event will highlight the importance and impact of fostering innovation in the education sector to deliver results for SDG4.
Resource NISSEM Global Briefs Volume 1: Educating for the social, the emotional, and the sustainable This is the first volume of the NISSEM Global Briefs, a collection of peer-reviewed essays from over 60 contributors of standing within the field of education. At the junction of SDG Target 4.7, SEL, and education in post conflict and low-resource settings, the NISSEM global briefs are a key resource for current research and practice.
Event Leave No One Behind: Accelerating the SDGs through Quality Education On September 25th the “Leave No One Behind: Accelerating the SDGs through Quality Education” event – hosted by Education Cannot Wait and the Education Commission, in partnership with Global Citizen – will bring together youth advocates and celebrity champions to encourage representatives of Member States, UN agencies, multilateral organizations, civil society organizations, and the private sector to pledge support for ECW as it accelerates its work to reach those furthest left behind in crises with quality education.
News G7 Summit: Britain to give £90m to help children in war zones go to school, Boris Johnson announces Britain is to give £90m to help children in conflict zones go to school, Boris Johnson has announced. Announcing the aid boost at the G7 summit in France, the prime minister said it would help an estimated 600,000 children, particularly girls, in some of the world’s most dangerous and unstable countries.
News PM offers education lifeline to 600,000 children living in conflict Children in the world’s most dangerous countries will be given the chance to go to school for the first time thanks to £90m of UK aid funding, the Prime Minister will announce today.
