Webinar: COVID-19, perspectives from the Arab World

This webinar organised by the Global Campaign for Education addressed the issue of the right to education during the COVID-19 crisis in the Arab World.

We had an informal discussion, introduced by some insights on the regional and national contexts.

The proposed agenda featured:

• Refat Sabbah, GCE President, to introduce the webinar.
• Muetesm Zayed, ACEA, for a regional overview.
• Shorts presentations from Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Jordan.
• A session of Q&A to the speakers.
• An exchange about the recovery, how to approach the reopening of schools in particular, how to better prepare for a second wave or other crises
• How to work better together – reflection on the tools to put in place, the capacities and mechanisms of mutual assistance, discussion on a possible next joint campaign

The Webinar took place on Tuesday June 2nd at 2:30 pm CEST/ 8:30 am EST/.

You can watch the recording of the webinar below or on Youtube here.

The full list of past and upcoming webinars is available here.