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According to Education Cannot Wait, girls who are facing conflict and crisis are 90% more likely to be out of school than girls in a non-crisis environment. Girls in these areas are also often unable to access critical health, educational, and social protections, and the World Bank estimates that girls are 2.5 times more likely to be out of school than boys in areas experiencing conflict or crisis. The situation is worse in some places than others. A recent example is Afghanistan, where girls have been banned from attending any schools or university.

Als „Education Cannot Wait“ (ECW), der globale Fonds der Vereinten Nationen für Bildung in Notsituationen und langanhaltenden Krisen, 2016 ins Leben gerufen wurde, gingen wir von schätzungsweise 75 Millionen Kindern in Krisensituationen aus, die Unterstützung im Bildungsbereich benötigten. Heute hat sich diese Zahl auf 222 Millionen verdreifacht!

En el mundo, 222 millones de niños y adolescentes que viven afectados por crisis humanitarias no tienen acceso a una educación adecuada. Priorizar la cobertura de sus necesidades básicas debe incluir la educación. 

Living Sunday è tornata a scuola grazie a un progetto della ong AVSI in partnership con SPEDP (Support for Peace Education and Development Program), proposto da Save The Children e finanziato da Education Cannot Wait, il fondo globale delle Nazioni Unite per l’educazione in contesti di emergenza e crisi protratte.

We are calling on every political party to demonstrate their support for Sustainable Development Goal 4 by including a commitment in their Manifestos to the protection and increase of financing to global education, including ensuring a fully funded Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW).

Desde 2020 a la fecha, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), en español “La educación no puede esperar”, y Save the Children han entregado más de 19.742 kits pedagógicos, escolares y docentes, entre otros.

After the Taliban ordered an indefinite ban on university education for Afghan girls, several humanitarian organizations, including Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a United Nations global, billion-dollar fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises called the Taliban authorities in Kabul to revoke their decision to suspend the university education of Afghan women.

After the Taliban ordered an indefinite ban on university education for Afghan girls, several humanitarian organizations, including Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a United Nations global, billion-dollar fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises called the Taliban authorities in Kabul to revoke their decision to suspend the university education of Afghan women.

Jan 20, 2023 GORDON BROWN and YASMINE SHERIF

Since returning to power in Afghanistan, the Taliban have steadily eroded the rights and opportunities of women and girls, particularly their access to education. But Afghans are not taking the regime's draconian policies lying down, and nor should the rest of the world.

A short panel discussion exploring ‘the role of Ireland in providing education to children and youth affected by humanitarian emergencies and protracted crises’

Latest research by Education Cannot Wait shows that 222 million children and adolescents affected by emergencies and protracted crises are in urgent need of education support. This is up from 75 million since similar estimates were made in 2015.

The situation is due to the historic drought in East Africa, Education Cannot Wait, the UN's global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, attributed the situation to the historic drought, simultaneously announcing a $2 million grant towards emergency needs. 

Our work goes beyond to Emergencies through the Education Cluster with financial support from Education Cannot Wait (ECW) supporting children with education continuity at ECD level in disaster affected areas.