Date: 21 Mar 2022 Time: All Day Event Type: Seminar This is one of the European Humanitarian Forum Humanitarian Talks, hosted by the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies at the European Humanitarian Forum 2022 with its members. It will highlight recent work by the Global Education Cluster, the Child Protection...

INEE shares concern for the Ukrainian people during the current conflict, and we hope for the safety of our members, colleagues, and all others in Ukraine. We join those around the world calling for peace and an immediate end to the fighting. Ukrainians, like everyone in the world, have the right to safe and quality education. Violence and the physical...

On March 4, a high school was destroyed by air warfare in the city of Zhytomyr, Ukraine. There were no children in the school, which was closed as a result of the war, but teachers were found hiding in the basement after the strikes had ended.Attacks that indiscriminately strike civilian objects, such as schools, violate international humanitarian...

Countries: Libya, World Source: REACH Initiative Please refer to the attached Infographic.

Country: World Source: Concern Worldwide Please refer to the attached file. Education is an enabling basic human right and a key component of humanitarian action as it provides immediate physical, psychological and cognitive protection during crises...

Date: 2 Mar 2022 Time: 1:00pm Event Type: Project Launch 2 March 1pm GMT Please join UNICEF and the World Bank for the global launch of resource packs on remote learning for resilient education systems. The resource packs for remote learning feature guidance and case studies to support governments and implementers with...

 Protect Education in Emergencies Now! Global Virtual Launch EventTuesday, 1st March 2022 at 08:00 EST / 14:00 CET/ 15:00 SASTREGISTER: https://bit.ly/ProtectEiENow_LaunchConflict, climate change, disasters, public health emergencies, and the forced displacement of people within and across borders are affecting a growing number of people all over the...

13 million children across African countries are facing not going to school. 13 million children were affected by the closure of 5 500 schools at the end of 2021.Burkina Faso saw the closure of 3 280 schools followed by Mali, 1 621, and 611 in Niger.Insurgents have enlarged their scope of action in the region.An estimated 13 million children were...

An IIEP-UNESCO virtual knowledge-sharing forum7, 14, 16 March 2022 | 2:00 pm CETHow can ministries of education play a leadership role during crises, what are the opportunities and obstacles? Join IIEP-UNESCO’s three-part series of online events to plan for the future of education, in and through crisis. Please find the registration links to each of...

We are thrilled to share with you the #ProtectEiENow campaign pack with everything you need to engage with the Protect Education in Emergencies Now!  campaign.Conflict, climate change, disasters, public health emergencies, and the forced displacement of people within and across borders are affecting a growing number of people all over the world. The...

Cameroon: Building the resilience of the education system to cope with crises The Cameroonian Government has adopted several measures to ensure continuity of learning during the health crisis posed by COVID-19 for the most vulnerable children in the most at-risk regions. Learn what progress has been made and what results have been achieved to...

Country: Burundi Source: Save the Children Please refer to the attached file. Burundi: Returning children face uphill battle for education and safety GITEGA, 21 February 2022 – Only one in 10 displaced children in Burundi is receiving a full education...

Call to action for "edtech solutions" in refugee education  Education Technology

Date: 15 Feb 2022 Time: 1:00pm Event Type: Webinar Education Sub Saharan Africa (ESSA), UNHCR and NORRAG are co-organising a webinar to discuss the report: “Complementary Pathways through Education for Refugees in the West and Central Africa Region”, which mapped out refugee education pathways and access to higher education...

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share by Email Before COVID-19, an estimated 3 million children in Somalia were out of school and those in school were struggling to learn. The COVID-19 pandemic combined with the effects of protracted crises have exacerbated Somalia’s education challenges. Through several interventions,...

Country: Burkina Faso Sources: Government of Burkina Faso, Education Cluster Please refer to the attached file. Dans le cadre de la gouvernance du système éducatif, le Secrétariat Technique de l’Education en Situation d’Urgence (ST-ESU) procède à la...

Date: 14 Feb 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:45pm Event Type: Symposium Monday 14 February 12:30 until 13:45 Online : Zoom: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97335918649   Speaker: Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Part of the series: CIE Research Cafés Spring Term 2022 What...

Date: 13 Apr 2022 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm Event Type: Seminar Wednesday 13 April 2022, 3-4pm BST Speaker: Professor Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education, Centre for International Education, University of Sussex, UK REGISTER HERE Part of series: Global Public Seminars in Comparative and International...

This blog was written by Nomisha Kurian, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. It was originally published on the Harvard REACH website on 2 October 2020. Child labourer Jamlo Makdam was only twelve when fatigue and dehydration caused her to collapse. She had been walking for approximately 93 miles for three days, attempting...

Countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, World Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. Increasingly Limited Access to Education for Vulnerable Children due to Insecurity January 24 marked...

2022 sees us entering a third year of the pandemic, and the harm done to children is increasingly evident: A record rise in child poverty. Setbacks to progress on routine vaccinations. Disruption to education for an entire generation. That harm has emerged as an unintended side-effect of the world's efforts to manage the crisis.   COVID has been a...

Date: 14 Feb 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:45pm Event Type: Symposium Monday 14 February 12:30 until 13:45 Online : Zoom: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97335918649   Speaker: Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Part of the series: CIE Research Cafés Spring Term 2022 What...

Date: 7 Feb 2022 Time: 12:30pm - 1:45pm Event Type: Symposium Monday 7 February 12:30 until 13:45 Online : Zoom: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97335918649 or Fulton Room 103 Speaker: Dr Hiba Salem Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Part of the series: CIE Research Cafés Spring...

BEIRUT, 28 January 2022 – Lebanon’s crisis is increasingly forcing young people to drop out of learning and engage in ill-paid, irregular and informal work just to survive and help feed their families, UNICEF said in a report released today. The report – Searching for Hope – says that more than 4 in 10 youth in Lebanon reduced spending on education...

The social and economic rationale of inclusive education Since UNESCO’s Salamanca Declaration in 1994, inclusive education has progressively attracted attention in international debates around education policy. While some evidence exists on the positive impact that inclusive education reforms can have...

Date: 3 Feb 2022 Time: 4:00pm Event Type: Webinar 3 February 2022, 4pm GMT INEE’s Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TiCC) Collaborative, in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, Education International, Oxfam, UNESCO, and the International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, have come together to support a Call to...

Globally in 2017, refugees were five times more likely to be out of school than non-refugee children. COVID-19 has widened that gap and placed additional strains on education systems, with vulnerable groups at higher risk of dropping out and refugees significantly more likely not to be in school. It is widely recognized that integrating refugee children...

“The challenges are many.” It’s a phrase you hear often in East Africa and it rings especially true in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. CLOSE TO BORDERS of Uganda, South Sudan and Ethiopia, Kakuma has harboured refugees from neighbouring countries for almost thirty years. It was established when a group of children, the ‘Lost Boys’, arrived from Sudan...

After her school was hit by a missile, 13-year-old Emtinan of Al Hudaydah stopped going to school for an entire year. Her family took shelter in a neighboring village, before being forced to flee again as intensive conflict resumed in the governorate. Ultimately, they sought shelter in Al-Jufainah internally displaced persons (IDPs) camp in Marib Governorate,...

Refugee students receiving education at one of Egypt's schools. By the end of 2020, more than 30.5 million refugees and asylum seekers had been forced to flee because of war, conflict and persecution. Leaving their past behind and seeking safety was not a choice but a mere necessity for their survival. Nearly half of these are children of...

Country: Afghanistan Sources: UN Children's Fund, Education Cluster Please refer to the attached file. SECTION I: BACKGROUND a. Relevance and importance of Education in Emergencies in the context of Afghanistan Education in emergencies (EiE) is...

Country: Lebanon Source: Save the Children Please refer to the attached file. Children and families in Lebanon have endured multiple crises, including a massive explosion in Beirut’s port, an economic collapse and severe depression, political deadlock...

Date: 28 Jan 2022 Time: 2:00pm Event Type: Webinar 28 January 2022, 2pm GMT We are pleased to invite you to join us for a webinar on the launch of a new issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies, co-hosted with NORAD! Despite rapid growth in the body of research on psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional...

This blog was written by Sixtine Berquist, Advocacy & Communications Officer, and team at ACCESS (Accelerating Change for Children’s and Youth’s Education Through Systems Strengthening), University of Auckland, New Zealand. The long-lasting impacts of colonialism, racism, and embedded power-structures have long been discussed within international...

In recent years, we’ve witnessed unprecedented challenges to girls' education in the form of the global COVID-19 pandemic, school shutdowns, protracted conflicts, climate change, displacement, and more. In response, INEE has been working closely with key gender and education partners, including through the INEE Girls’ Education in Emergencies Reference...

Date: 18 Jan 2022 Time: 2:00pm Event Type: Webinar 18 January 2022, 2pm GMT Today, the world is facing a learning crisis, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, more than half of children in low- and middle-income countries were not able to read and understand a simple text by...

If, by some magic, you woke up tomorrow morning as our nation’s leader, what’s the first step you would take to improve the country? It’s a question I’ve taken to asking many people as I’ve travelled the globe. It’s an imaginative way of asking, ‘What are the biggest issues impeding your nation’s development today, and what do you think the solutions...

Photo credit: ShutterstockIn our recent The State of the Global Education Crisis: A Path to Recovery report (produced jointly by UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank), we sounded the alarm: this generation of students now risks losing $17 trillion in lifetime earnings in present value, or about 14 percent of today’s global GDP, because of COVID-19-related...

Liberia: A safe school environment welcomes children back to school With support from GPE and UNICEF, the government of Liberia is making good progress in promoting safe learning and ensuring children can stay healthy while in school. Elizabeth Toe's KG-2 class at Billy Town. “Our schools are cleaner, our habits are better,...