Tag Archives: conflict

Fighting Poverty and Hunger for Quality Education

Posted on 16 August 2016 by

By Salam Al-Nukta, youth advisor to the GEM Report The youth population is continuously increasing, and is estimated to reach 1.8 billion this year. Obviously, it is a large population of mass power. Yet, as we say goodbye to another … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Conflict, Learning, Nutrition, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, school violence, sdg, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, Youth | Tagged , , , , , , , | 6 Comments

No child should have to pay the cost of war

Posted on 20 June 2016 by

By Malala Yousafzai, Student, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Co-Founder of the Malala Fund No child should have to pay the cost of war, to be kept away from the classroom because of conflict. Yet whole generations of refugee children … Continue reading →

Posted in Conflict, emergencies, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged , , | 4 Comments

Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage

Posted on 23 May 2016 by

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 , , , , | 1 Comment

Last chance to join the call for the new Education Crisis Platform to be adequately and sustainably financed

Posted on 5 April 2016 by

By Kolleen Bouchane, Their World Around the world, emergencies and protracted crises disrupted the education of 80 million children and adolescents in 2015. Despite this, education in emergency contexts received less than 2 percent of all humanitarian funding last year. … Continue reading →

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Learning from former extremists

Posted on 4 April 2016 by

By Lynn Davies I met these other people, Muslims, and for some reason they saw something in me that I couldn’t see. They basically believed in me and they said that, ‘You can do more with yourself’. Interviewing former extremists … Continue reading →

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Pakistan: all girls and boys in school for 12 years – a critical pathway to progress

Posted on 15 February 2016 by

Baela Raza Jamil is the Trustee/Advisor for the Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) The demand for girls education has been rising in Pakistan but remains unmet due to poor access especially at post primary levels. The current net enrolment ratio for girls is … Continue reading →

Posted in Arab States, Equality, Equity, Learning, Out-of-school children, Post-2015 development framework, Primary school, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Big hopes for education, and yet more big targets at the World Humanitarian Summit

Posted on 11 February 2016 by

The UN Secretary-General’s Report, One Humanity: Shared Responsibility, was released yesterday for the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul this May. It contains calls for reform in humanitarian aid architecture that could change lives for millions if taken at their word. … Continue reading →

Posted in Finance, Human rights, Out-of-school children, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Syria? Education?

Posted on 3 February 2016 by

It’s not news that calls for funds for education in humanitarian situations are left unmet, but it doesn’t fail to shock when the actual figures are laid bare. Syria, which no one can deny is in dire need of assistance, … Continue reading →

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Donor conference must deliver on the promise of education for Syria

Posted on 1 February 2016 by

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 →

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Education cannot wait, and yet it always does

Posted on 23 October 2015 by

For many years now there have been calls for greater attention to education in crisis situations from a multitude of advocacy organisations and influential spokespeople. Despite this noise, although there have been some indications of progress, there have been no … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Aid, Conflict, Developed countries, Developing countries, emergencies, Finance, fragile states, Literacy, Out-of-school children, refugees, syria | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments