News 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.
News Donors pledge $1.2 billion in emergency funds for Afghans The United Nations drummed up more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges Monday for helping 11 million Afghans facing an escalating humanitarian crisis in their homeland and millions more elsewhere in the region as the U.N. human rights chief voiced concerns about the Taliban’s first steps in establishing power in the beleaguered and impoverished country.
News If education is such a great investment, it deserves serious international backing "Education,” wrote Nelson Mandela, “is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” One wonders what he would have made of the response to the education crisis triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. A crisis threatening to derail social and economic progress, trapping millions of children in poverty.
Blog Teaching in complex crises: Seeking balance in selfless acts of service On July 28th and 29th the Global Education Summit will focus on financing the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) from 2021 though to 2025. This article implores that teachers - who have led at the frontlines of recent crises, yet remain down the list of education financing priorities - must be a central feature of the Summit’s commitments.
Blog Droit à l'éducation : agir dans le contexte de l'implication des acteurs privés en situations de crise Ces dernières années, l'insuffisance des financements publics, y compris via l’aide humanitaire pour satisfaire aux besoins dans des contextes de crise, suscite une implication croissante des acteurs privés dans les programmes éducatifs d’urgence.
News As it Assumes Leadership of the Global Education Agenda, the UK Slashes Its Own Aid to Education 2021 was to be the year in which the UK took leadership of global education. So it’s devastating that, instead of demonstrating its commitment to education during this moment in the spotlight, the UK government has chosen to cut education spending by more than 40 percent, compared with overall aid cuts of around 25 percent.
Resource Private Engagement in Education in Emergencies: Rights and Regulations One 24 March 2021, the INEE Advocacy Working Group hosted a launch of a new advocacy brief: Private Engagement in Education in Emergencies: Rights and Regulations.
Resource Disability Inclusive Education Forum: Reaching the most marginalized The Disability Inclusive Education Forum: Reaching the most marginalized, issued a timely reminder that, in an unpredictable 2020, children and young people already facing the greatest barriers and highest risk of exclusion are being left further behind, without the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Event Private Engagement in Education in Emergencies: Rights and Regulations The INEE Advocacy Working Group of is delighted to invite you to the launch of an important advocacy brief: Private Engagement in Education in Emergencies: Rights and Regulations!
News Covid-19 : les deux tiers des pays les plus pauvres réduisent leurs budgets consacrés à l'éducation dans un contexte où ils peuvent le moins se le permettre Les budgets de l'éducation ne s'ajustent pas en proportion des défis posés par le COVID-19, en particulier dans les pays les plus pauvres. Malgré des besoins financiers accrus, deux tiers des pays à faible et moyen revenu ont réduit les budgets alloués à l'instruction publique depuis le début de la pandémie selon le nouveau rapport conjoint de la Banque mondiale et de l'UNESCO,
