Humanity & Inclusion’s new report illustrates how education systems need to become more inclusive for children and youth with disabilities and, at the same time, more resilient to cope with crises and ensure education in all settings and circumstances.
Read: Always Included: Uninterrupted education for children with disabilities before, during, and after a crisis in English and French.
School-related gender-based violence is a major obstacle to gender equity in education, manifesting in various ways, from biased language, to discriminatory gender roles, and even physical violence.
This brief by UN Girls’ Education Initiative (UNGEI) shows the importance of considering gender in efforts to prevent and respond to school violence, exploring the use of existing measurement tools to estimate the extent and scope of gender-based violence in schools.
Read: School violence: Why gender matters and how to measure school-related gender-based violence.
Disability is a new dimension that has been added in 2023 to the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE), which brings together household survey and learning assessment data from over 170 countries. The database was first created in 2010 to draw attention to education inequality levels between and within countries.
Read more in this blog from UNESCO.
For the third consecutive year, Save the Children has ranked 182 countries by the vulnerability of their school system to hazards that threaten children’s right to learn and against levels of preparedness for those hazards. This offers a holistic view of the risks to education and suggests which national education systems require increased resources from national governments and international actors to mitigate existing and prevent future crises.
Read: Build Forward Better 2023.
Humanity & Inclusion implemented a research project funded by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) to identify a practical and reliable methodology to produce data on learners with disabilities in schools in emergencies and protracted crises.
The Child Functioning Module – Teacher Version (CFM-TV) was tested and assessed for programming and monitoring use in humanitarian response. The findings were used to develop an evidence-based operational package to explain to education field practitioners and stakeholders what the CFM-TV is, when and how to use it.
For the world’s refugees, education is a source of opportunity and hope for a brighter future. Yet over half of all refugee children are out of school, and there is a real and present danger that a generation of refugee children will be deprived of the education they need to restore their future. Having already lost their homes, refugees are losing their education and their hopes for a brighter future. The 2023 Global Refugee Forum, the second of its kind, is an opportunity to unlock the action and funding required to educate the world’s refugees
For more information read: Closing the funding gap to ensure that refugee and host community learners can go to school. This is a joint briefing paper by the International Parliamentary Network on Education and Save the Children UK on refugee education financing.
The escalation of the conflict in February 2022 led to an unprecedented large-scale displacement of children and their families in Ukraine both in and abroad to countries in Europe. This World Vision Policy Brief discusses the critical role humanitarian organizations have in ensuring millions of children receive educational and mental health support critical to their development.
The brief argues that learning in a school setting is vital to children’s mental health, positive social development and academic achievement, so education must be fully funded in the humanitarian response. Barriers to in-person learning must be addressed by Ukraine and host governments to shift the degree of reliance on online learning.
Date: 6 December 2023.
Time: 2pm UTC.
UNESCO, UNICEF, UNHCR, and INEE invite you to a webinar on building inclusive education systems for refugees.
As global displacement rises, there is an urgent need for inclusive education systems that also address the needs of these displaced learners. However, refugees are often overlooked in educational policies and remain unrepresented in data systems, limiting their access to quality education in their host countries.
The webinar will explore effective strategies for the inclusion of refugees in national education systems.
On the sidelines of the upcoming 2023 Global Refugee Forum, this webinar will also launch a joint inter-agency brief, two publications by UNESCO-UNHCR, and a forthcoming UNICEF publication on refugee inclusion that will build evidence and inform discussions on fostering greater inclusion for refugees in national education systems.
Date: Thursday 30 November 2023.
Time: 2:00pm Beirut/Jerusalem time / 12pm UK time.
The Centre for Lebanese Studies invites you to attend the webinar ‘The role of civil society in emergencies: Lebanon, and Occupied Palestine’.
We are witnessing a high level of disengagement of civil society in our region from the genocide that is taking place in Palestine. This silence and disengagement pause questions around our work ethics, responsibilities, ethos and roles as institutions and individuals in these spaces.
Through this webinar, we will have a conversation and open the space to critically engage with key institutions in the region to discuss the roles of civil society institutions, especially those in the field of education, and their responsibilities and how we can ethically move forward tackling issues of funding, solidarity, and impact.
Discussant:
Prof. Maha Shuayb, Centre for Lebanese Studies Director
Chair:
Dr. Mai Abu Moghli, Senior Researcher at the Centre for Lebanese Studies
Speakers:
Dr. Ghassan Slaiby, Researcher in sociology and sociology of work
Dr. Nader Wahbe, Education specialist and researcher
Ayman Qwaider, Enabling Education Network/ MENA Network Manager
Register to attend the webinar.
The webinar is followed by a Q&A session with the speakers.
(Simultaneous interpretation will be provided at the webinar).
Location: Monrovia, Liberia.
Duration: 4 years+.
Application deadline: Applications will be assessed on a rolling basis.
Mission Alliance’s Liberia Country Office is responsible for community development work focusing on literacy programmes combined with financial inclusion efforts. The organisation wishes to expand its portfolio and impact in Liberia over the coming years, funded by private donors in Norway and Norad. The Senior Education Advisor will be experienced in development and education programming.
