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In the current challenging context, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) work together to ensure no child impacted by a crisis or emergency is left behind. Their collaboration maximizes impact across the humanitarian-development spectrum.

ECW focuses on immediate and multi-year responses in crisis-affected areas, ensuring children in emergencies have access to education when they need it most.

In the current challenging context, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) work together to ensure no child impacted by a crisis or emergency is left behind.

ECW focuses on immediate and multi-year responses in crisis-affected areas, ensuring children in emergencies have access to education when they need it most.

ECW’s rapid emergency responses complement GPE’s system-building efforts.

Poverty and hunger have devastating effects on educational outcomes and social mobility. Some 84 million children are at risk of being out of education by the 2030 deadline, undermining progress toward universal education. Without an education, adolescents are often forced into work and early marriage, dashing their hopes of a better future. And hunger in the classroom is a powerful impediment to concentration and learning.

L'Égypte accueille plus d'un million deux cent mille réfugiés venus du Soudan. Une population qui met à l'épreuve le système éducatif égyptien, de l'école primaire à l'université. Avec le directeur adjoint du Programme de l'ONU pour l'éducation «Education cannot wait»,

Key funding initiatives include a $28.2 million collaboration with GPE and a $21 million project with Education Cannot Wait, focused on Ukraine’s most affected regions.

We have also clarified our collaboration with Education Cannot Wait (ECW), ensuring complementarity at both global and country levels.

Key funding initiatives include a $28.2 million collaboration with GPE and a $21 million project with Education Cannot Wait, focused on Ukraine’s most affected regions.

Adenike Oladosu is a leading Nigerian ecofeminist, climate justice leader and researcher. She was appointed as an ECW Global Climate Champion on World Environment Day in June 2024. In December of last year, Adenike was honored by #BBC100Women, selected as one of the BBC’s 100 most influential and inspiring women from around the world. She was also a finalist for the Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.

Education is important because we need to deal with the immediate impacts of the climate crisis Right Here, Right Now. In the most vulnerable countries, education can be used as a tool to prevent forced migration and internal displacement.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday it received 1.5 million U.S. dollars in funding from the Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN global fund for education in emergencies, to address the urgent educational and psychosocial needs of Sudanese refugee children in Libya.

"This contribution from the ECW allows us to tackle the critical education gaps for Sudanese refugee children in Libya, ensuring that no child is left behind," said Mohammad Fayyazi, UNICEF representative in Libya, in a statement.

In response to the escalating humanitarian crisis in Sudan, UNICEF Libya has received $1,500,000 in funding from the Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations global fund for education in emergencies.

“Education is a lifeline for children caught in crises, offering them stability, hope, and the skills they need to rebuild their futures. This contribution from ECW allows us to tackle the critical education gaps for Sudanese refugee children in Libya, ensuring that no child is left behind” said Mohammad Fayyazi, the UNICEF Representative.

Last June, Executive Director Yasmine Sherif of global fund for education, Education Cannot Wait, released a statement, declaring girls’ right to an education as “a fundamental right as outlined in international human rights law.”

Education investments in Tigray delivered by UNICEF with funding from Education Cannot Wait are sowing the seeds of peace and prosperity as a region and a nation embrace the transformational power of learning.

To address the issues, Education Cannot Wait is coming together with strategic donors and key partners such as UNICEF to scale up resources. On a recent high-level UN Mission to Tigray, ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced a new $5 million First Emergency Response grant.

The education crisis in Ethiopia is one of the largest silent crises in the world today. — ECW Executive Director Yasmine Sherif

These impactful investments are being delivered through UNICEF and a broad consortium of international and local partners with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises in the United Nations.