Protect Education in Emergencies Now!
Emergencies have a devastating impact on the right to education of millions of people
Education is a basic human right. Yet even prior to COVID-19, 250 million children & youth were out of school and 800 million adults were illiterate.
Conflict, climate change, disasters, public health emergencies, and the forced displacement of people within and across borders are affecting a growing number of people all over the world. `In 2021, 235 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance and protection.
Emergencies have a devastating impact on the right to education of millions of people. In 2019, 127 million primary and secondary school-age children and young people living in crisis-affected countries were out of school.
For the most marginalised—learners with disabilities, girls, and those from low-income households, among others—the impact is much greater.
Despite this dire situation, education remains one of the most underfunded areas of humanitarian aid, receiving just 2,4 % of total global humanitarian funding..
A generation of children and young people living in emergencies are deprived not only of their human right to quality education, but also of the protection that education provides in these contexts. In emergencies, education may be the only safe space.
THIS MUST CHANGE. Together we can PROTECT EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES NOW!
Solutions lie in the hands of Governments. If we raise our voices and stand side by side as a global movement, we can ensure that the right to education is realised in emergency contexts. So, together, we must call upon our Governments to:
- Protect and guarantee the fulfillment of the right to quality education for all in emergency contexts, by providing, safe and accessible learning environments for all learners without any discrimination.
- Develop and implement crisis-sensitive national education plans and budgets.
- Listen to the voices of the people affected and local actors.
- Ensure sufficient, sustainable, and predictable funding for education in emergencies, including by supporting Education Cannot Wait (ECW) funding needs.
- Promote equitable and sustainable inclusion in national education systems for refugees, asylum seekers, returnees, stateless and internally displaced persons.
- Ensure that girls and women have equal opportunities to fulfill their right to education in emergency contexts.
- Ensure that learners with disabilities have equal opportunities to fulfill their right to education in emergency contexts.
- Ensure the availability of adequately trained and remunerated teachers in emergency contexts.
- Endorse and implement the Safe Schools Declaration and ensure that all learners and educators can learn and teach in safety.
- Promote Transformative Education, psychosocial support, and social and emotional learning approaches.
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INCLUSIVE PLANNING, SUSTAINABLE FUNDING, REALIZED RIGHTS
A call to action to ensure transformative, inclusive, equitable, and quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all in emergency contexts
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