Category Archives: fragile states
Losing out on learning: Action to ensure refugee children get an education
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, Head of Education Policy & Advocacy and Sébastien Hine, Education Research Adviser at Save the Children The world is now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record. According to UNHCR, an unprecedented 65.6 million people around … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, emergencies, fragile states, refugees, Uncategorized
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, peace, refugee, refugees
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Boko Haram won’t win
By Zannah Mustapha, founder of Future Prowess Today, a conference is being held to look at the humanitarian crisis unfolding in north-eastern Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. I live this crisis every day. I have seen a thousand orphans … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, fragile states, school violence, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged boko haram, conflict, nigeria, violence
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Reaching All Children with Education: Lebanon’s national education response strategy to the Syria crisis
By Lebanon’s Ministry of Education and Higher Education In Lebanon, the five years since the beginning of the Syria Crisis have had a significant impact on its people and its institutions. With an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees now hosted … Continue reading
Posted in Arab States, Basic education, emergencies, Equality, Equity, fragile states, Legislation, Marginalization, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Report, sdg, sdgs, Secondary school, syria, Uncategorized
Tagged lebanon, refugees, syria, target 4.1
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Virtually Educated: The Case for and Conundrum of Online Higher Education for Refugees
by Martha K. Ferede, Consultant GEM Report, Lecturer in International and Comparative Higher Education, Sciences-Po In addition to increased provision of primary and secondary schooling, refugees also need pathways into accredited tertiary education programs. As was highlighted in the … Continue reading
Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage
The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading
Posted in Aid, Conflict, Finance, fragile states, Primary school, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdg, sdgs, Uncategorized, united nations, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, conflict, finance, humanitarian aid, Target 4.a
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No more excuses. Provide education to all forcibly displaced people
By the GEM Report and the UNHCR Education Section Days before the World Humanitarian Summit, we have jointly released a new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, with new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Arab States, Child soldiers, Conflict, data, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, fragile states, Human rights, immigration, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged #Target 4.5, refugees
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Donor conference must deliver on the promise of education for Syria
By Joseph Nhan-O’Reilly, Head of Education Policy & Advocacy at Save the Children UK. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Partnership for Education and Chair of the Board’s Strategy & Policy Committee. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict, Donors, fragile states, Human rights, Out-of-school children, syria
Tagged conflict, finance, syria, Target 4.a
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