ECW is committed to collaborating and coordinating responses with other coalition members to ensure that these combined efforts target the most disadvantaged children and adolescents affected by forced displacement, particularly girls and those with disabilities.
Education Cannot Wait
New York City, United States of America
International or regional organization
Established : 2016
Education and COVID-19 Response
https://www.educationcannotwait.org/covid-fer/
Objectives
Flagship
The Education Cannot Wait Global Fund (ECW) is a global fund for Education in Emergencies. It works through partners in the country and allocates funds through emergency grants to rapidly deliver holistic education services. In the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries/emergency contexts have received funds from ECW.
ECW's partners' intervention mainly aims to alleviate the current COVID-19 crisis by designing the leveling and acceleration strategy, including distance learning through radio/tv, digital learning, home base learning. Engaging teachers, students, and community through community mobilization activities on COVID-19 prevention and communication campaigns to robust work in awareness building and positive behavior change messages in Education alongside other sectors are all pertinent. Provide schools and learning centers with proper water and sanitation facilities for reopening post-COVID-19, and these supplies include school sanitation supplies and hygiene kits for students and teachers. It also offers children psychosocial support in the intervention areas.
Regional Focus
Global
Countries of Interest
Bangladesh, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Mali, Colombia
Member Video
Commitment
ECW and its partners in the countries are supporting the equitable continuation of learning during the COVID-19 pandemic through available media platforms such as radio/tv or digital learning. The ECW partners are developing various context-specific learning models focusing on different age groups. ECW Partners at the national level, through their response, strengthen the education system in terms of technical assistance and development of learning materials for use nationally and the prioritized territories affected by previous crises/emergencies. ECW partners on the ground are also supporting the governments in terms of strengthening monitoring system in the reopening of safe school post COVID-19.
On a broader level, the partnerships among ECW implementing partners, Governments, and Education sector partners in the country will be leveraged to enable an education system-wide scale-up to respond to the unprecedented extent of the educational disruption. The goal of the ECW COVID-19 Education Response is to ensure children are kept safe and continue learning and to have a lasting positive impact on the education systems in their respective countries.
Action areas
Learner Wellbeing
Digital Learning Content
Capacity Development
Advocacy and Communication
Advocacy and Communication
Contacts
Primary Contact
Mr. Graham Lang
