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A delegação de alto nível da ECW viajou para a região de Tigray, que está se recuperando de um conflito de 3 anos que interrompeu completamente a educação. A delegação visitou escolas beneficiadas pelo financiamento da ECW e parceiros estratégicos, e encontrou-se com crianças, pais e professores. A delegação viu de perto o impacto dos programas apoiados pela ECW implementados por parceiros da ONU e da sociedade civil internacional e local ? incluindo UNICEF, Conselho Norueguês para Refugiados, Save the Children e Imagine1Day ? em estreita colaboração com o governo. Em uma única escola, a matrícula aumentou em impressionantes 20% no ano passado graças a um pacote abrangente de intervenções financiadas pela ECW.

"A crise de educação na Etiópia é uma das maiores crises silenciosas no mundo hoje. Mesmo assim, podemos ver um impacto impressionante pelos investimentos da ECW. A paixão pelo aprendizado entre meninos e meninas estava muito clara. Agora, precisamos apoiá-los e pedir com urgência por financiamento adicional aos parceiros doadores estratégicos", afirmou Yasmine Sherif, diretora executiva da Education Cannot Wait, fundo global para educação em emergências e crises prolongadas nas Nações Unidas.

"A Imagine1Day está profundamente grata por este subsídio da First Emergency Response da ECW. Com este generoso apoio, vamos fornecer para mais de 13.000 crianças fora da escola na região de Afar ? 60% das quais são meninas e 13% são crianças com deficiências ? acesso a ambientes de aprendizagem seguros. Este projeto não apenas melhorará o seu bem-estar, como também irá capacitá-los a alcançar seu potencial máximo. Considerando que a educação em situações de emergência na Etiópia tem sido severamente subfinanciada, este subsídio é fundamental para garantir que as crianças afetadas pela crise recebam a educação e o suporte de que precisam para construir um futuro mais brilhante", afirmou o Dr. Seid Aman, diretor nacional da Imagine1Day.

UNICEF expresses gratitude to the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the people and Governments of France and Norway, the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration of the United States Department of State (BPRM), the German Federal Foreign Office, UNICEF National Committees of Luxemburg, Switzerland, Argentina, Education Cannot Wait, and Afeyan Foundation who have provided critical funding for the ongoing response.

“In the absence of education, both boys and girls may be mobilized into militant groups, and frequently, girls will be subjected to child marriage. The choice is to provide them with an education, as it is the pathway to their future and contribution to their society and also as a protection mechanism,” says Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises in the United Nations. “Being out-of-school puts them in harm’s way and onto the path of abuse, violations, and the destruction of their lives, their communities, and eventually their country. We must ensure that no child is left behind in the education system. Investing in the very real potential of Ethiopia’s young generation is not an option—it is an absolute necessity.”

Sherif traveled to the Tigray region in the first week of December 2024 together with the ECW Global Champion and Finance Minister of Denmark, Nicolai Wammen. ECW’s high-level delegation saw first-hand the devastating effects of the deadly three-year conflict between the Ethiopian central government and the northernmost region of Tigray, Ethiopia.

To date, ECW’s combined multi-year and emergency investments in Ethiopia have reached more than 550,000 children and adolescents, providing a comprehensive range of supports—school rehabilitation, teacher training, mental health and psychosocial support, inclusive education, school feeding, gender transformative initiatives, early childhood education, and more. ECW’s support focuses on the most vulnerable, including girls, children from refugee, displaced and host community communities, and children with disabilities.

ECW’s investments are aligned to the Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan and the Ethiopia Education Sector Development Programme VI, a detailed planning document that provides a comprehensive outlook of the roadmap that the country’s education sector is taking. The Global Fund urgently calls for additional resources to fill the USD 64 million funding gap to meet the requirements for the acute education needs in the 2024 Humanitarian Response Plan for Ethiopia.

The world is at a crossroads, with one path leading to ever more global fragmentation and deepening crises, and the other offering a chance to pursue individual and shared prosperity through joint solutions to common problems. While the choice seems clear, the outcome depends on our ability to overhaul existing institutions.

Нагадаємо, Фонд у сфері освіти в надзвичайних ситуаціях Education Cannot Wait "Освіта не може чекати" підписав угоду з Міністерством освіти і науки України провиділення гранту в розмірі $18 млнна забезпечення якісної та безпечної освіти.

“We are set to embark on an ambitious new chapter beginning from January 2025, and launching a three-year education initiative funded by Education Cannot Wait. This program aims to address the critical needs of out-of-school children in the northeastern states of Nigeria: Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe.

Фонд у сфері освіти в надзвичайних ситуаціях Education Cannot Wait "Освіта не може чекати" підписав угоду з Міністерством освіти і науки України про виділення гранту в розмірі $18 млн на забезпечення якісної та безпечної освіти.

Зазначається, що ECW оголосив про початок багаторічної програми підтримки України, на яку фонд виділив 18 млн доларів США.

"Локалізація програми, тобто залучення місцевих організацій не лише до впровадження проєктів, але й до менеджменту програми, є важливою складовою партнерства з ECW.

Підтримка ECW та реалізація програми сприятиме безперервності викладання та навчання, поєднуючи задоволення гуманітарних потреб та розвиткові проєкти для підтримки системи освіти в умовах війни.

І я надзвичайно вдячний Education Cannot Wait за спільне бачення та підтримку. За те, що не лише допомагаєте Україні відповідати на виклики війни, а й підтримуєте довгострокову розбудову системи української освіти", — зазначив Оксен Лісовий, міністр освіти і науки України.

Нагадаємо, Фонд у сфері освіти в надзвичайних ситуаціях Education Cannot Wait "Освіта не може чекати" підписав угоду з Міністерством освіти і науки України провиділення гранту в розмірі $18 млнна забезпечення якісної та безпечної освіти.

Um die Inklusion von Kindern mit geistigen Behinderungen durch Sport voranzutreiben, haben Education Cannot Wait (ECW) und Special Olympics International (SOI) heute eine strategische Partnerschaft angekündigt, die mit dem Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderungen zusammenfällt.

Mit seiner Acceleration Facility wird ECW SOI dabei unterstützen, das Programm Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® zu erweitern und eine sinnvolle soziale Inklusion zu fördern, indem Schüler mit und ohne geistige Behinderung zusammengebracht werden, um ein akzeptierendes Schulumfeld zu schaffen.

Gemeinsam schaffen wir einen Präzedenzfall dafür, wie die globale Gemeinschaft den dringenden Bedarf an inklusiver Bildung decken kann – für Kinder mit verborgenem Potenzial in den schwierigsten Umgebungen der Welt", sagte Yasmine Sherif, Geschäftsführerin von Education Cannot Wait.

Als globaler Fonds für Bildung in Notsituationen und Langzeitkrisen der Vereinten Nationen hat sich ECW verpflichtet, über sein programmatisches Investitionsportfolio 10 % der Kinder mit Behinderungen zu erreichen, und bringt ein breites Spektrum strategischer Partner wie Regierungen, Organisationen der Vereinten Nationen, die Zivilgesellschaft sowie öffentliche und private Geber zusammen, um diese dringende Krise zu bewältigen.

Dans le cadre d'une démarche transformatrice visant à faire progresser l'inclusion par le sport pour les enfants présentant des déficiences intellectuelles, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) et Special Olympics International (SOI) ont annoncé aujourd'hui un partenariat stratégique qui coïncide avec la Journée internationale des personnes handicapées.

Grâce à son mécanisme d'accélération, ECW aidera SOI à étendre le programme Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® (écoles championnes unifiées), qui promeut une véritable inclusion sociale en réunissant des élèves avec et sans déficiences intellectuelles pour créer des environnements scolaires accueillants, à l'aide de trois éléments interconnectés : Special Olympics Unified Sports®, le leadership inclusif des jeunes et la mobilisation de l'ensemble de l'école. 

En tant que fonds mondial pour l'éducation dans les situations d'urgence et les crises prolongées au sein des Nations unies, ECW s'est engagée à atteindre un taux de 10 % d'enfants handicapés dans son portefeuille d'investissements programmatiques, en rassemblant un large éventail de partenaires stratégiques (gouvernements, agences des Nations unies, société civile et donateurs des secteurs public et privé) pour faire face à cette crise urgente. 

Um die Inklusion von Kindern mit geistigen Behinderungen durch Sport voranzutreiben, haben Education Cannot Wait (ECW) und Special Olympics International (SOI) heute eine strategische Partnerschaft angekündigt, die mit dem Internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderungen zusammenfällt.

Mit seiner Acceleration Facility wird ECW SOI dabei unterstützen, das Programm Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® zu erweitern und eine sinnvolle soziale Inklusion zu fördern, indem Schüler mit und ohne geistige Behinderung zusammengebracht werden, um ein akzeptierendes Schulumfeld zu schaffen. Dabei werden drei miteinander verbundene Komponenten genutzt: Special Olympics Unified Sports®, inklusive Jugendleitung und Engagement für die gesamte Schule

Als globaler Fonds für Bildung in Notsituationen und Langzeitkrisen der Vereinten Nationen hat sich ECW verpflichtet, über sein programmatisches Investitionsportfolio 10 % der Kinder mit Behinderungen zu erreichen, und bringt ein breites Spektrum strategischer Partner wie Regierungen, Organisationen der Vereinten Nationen, die Zivilgesellschaft sowie öffentliche und private Geber zusammen, um diese dringende Krise zu bewältigen.

In a transformative move to advance inclusion through sports for children with intellectual disabilities, Special Olympics International (SOI) and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) today announced a strategic partnership coinciding with International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

Through its Acceleration Facility, ECW will support SOI to expand the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools® programme, promoting meaningful social inclusion by bringing together students with and without intellectual disabilities to create accepting school environments, utilizing three interconnected components: Special Olympics Unified Sports®, inclusive youth leadership, and whole school engagement.

"...Together we are setting a precedent for how the global community can address the urgent need for inclusive education—for children with hidden potentials in the world’s most challenging settings,” said Yasmine Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait.

As the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises in the United Nations, ECW has committed to reaching 10% of children with disabilities across its programmatic investment portfolio; bringing together a wide range of strategic partners—governments, United Nations agencies, civil society, and public and private sector donors—to address this pressing crisis.

As part of this partnership, Unified Champion Schools will be launched in Uganda with a focus on children with intellectual disabilities living in refugee settlements and related settings. This initiative will be piloted with support from a $75,000 ECW Acceleration Facility grant.

Since 2018, ECW has invested over $80 million to support education programmes in Uganda, with a focus on supporting equitable inclusive quality education for refugee and host community children, and reaching more than half a million children.