NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations international fund for schooling in emergencies and protracted crises, issued its new “We Have Promises to Keep: Annual Results Report” right this moment indicating that ECW investments with strategic companions have reached shut to 7 million kids and adolescents – 48.4% of whom are ladies – because the Fund turned operational in 2017.
Through its strategic partnerships, ECW reached 3.7 million kids throughout 32 disaster-impacted international locations in 2021 alone. An further 11.8 million kids had been reached by means of the Fund’s COVID-19 interventions that very same 12 months, bringing the overall quantity supported by means of the COVID-19 interventions to 31.2 million.
ECW mobilized a document-breaking US$388.6 million in 2021, and complete contributions to the Fund now high US$1.1 billion.
“There is no dream more powerful than that of an education. We must keep our promise to provide inclusive, equitable quality education for all,” stated The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education and Chair of the ECW High-Level Steering Group.
The outcomes report comes on the again of stunning new estimates indicating that 222 million faculty-aged kids and adolescents caught in crises globally are in pressing want of instructional help. These embody 78.2 million who’re out of college and 119.6 million who’re in class however not attaining minimal competencies in arithmetic and studying.
According to the report, battle, compelled displacement, local weather-induced disasters and the compounding impact of the COVID-19 pandemic fueled elevated schooling in emergencies wants with funding appeals reaching US$2.9 billion in 2021, in contrast with US$1.4 billion in 2020. While 2021 noticed a document-excessive US$645 million in schooling enchantment funding – the general funding hole spiked by 17%, from 60% in 2020 to 77% in 2021.
ECW’s High-Level Financing Conference to be held in Geneva in February 2023 and 222 Million Dreams marketing campaign calls on authorities donors, the personal sector, foundations and excessive-internet-price people to flip commitments into motion by making substantive funding contributions to ECW.
“ECW’s solid results in our first five years of operation are proof that we can empower crises-affected girls and boys with the hope, protection and opportunity of quality education,” stated Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait.
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