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Global fund for education in emergencies reaches 3.5 mln children, youth since 2016
Aug 11, 2020
United Nations | XINHUA | Education Cannot Wait (ECW), a UN-hosted global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has reached nearly 3.5 million children and youth in many of the world’s worst humanitarian crises since its inception in 2016, an ECW report published on Tuesday shows.
The report, “Stronger Together in Crises — Annual Results Report 2019,” provides evidence that ECW’s partnership model is spurring progress in delivering inclusive, equitable quality education for children and youth caught in emergencies and protracted crises.
The report shows that ECW is providing the impetus for quicker education responses in face of sudden-onset crises, and is strengthening coherence between humanitarian and development aid interventions.
It also captures encouraging trends in terms of strengthening national and local capacities to respond, as well as improving data, evidence and accountability for the sector.
“ECW works to serve the 75 million children and youth — 39 million of whom are girls — whose education has been disrupted by armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate-change induced disasters and protracted crises. This new annual results report shows ECW advancing from strength to strength, just three years into its operations,” said Gordon Brown, UN special envoy for Global Education and Chair of the ECW High-Level Steering Group.
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