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EDUCATION

CANNOT WAIT:

A Lifeline for 8 US$101 million required for the education response The grant will increase access and retention of

out-of-school girls and boys – including internally
was funded, according to the 2024 Humanitarian
displaced people, returnees, host community,
Response Plan.
refugee, and children with disabilities – into non-
Million Kids The three-year ECW grant seeks to crowd-in more formal education, improve the quality of foundational
learning, support girls and boys to transition from
resources from donors, the private sector and
philanthropic foundations to reach over 170,000
non-formal accelerated programmes to formal
crisis-impacted girls and boys in Ethiopia’s hard-hit
across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus.
Amhara, Somali and Tigray regions. education, and improve coordination mechanisms
Education Cannot Wait Announces US$24 Million Catalytic Multi- Built in coordination with the Government of ECW and its strategic partners are racing to mobilize
US$600 million in additional resources to reach the
Year Resilience Programme Grant in Ethiopia, Total ECW Funding in Ethiopia, the grant will be led by Save the Children targets outlined in the Fund’s four-year strategic
Ethiopia Tops US$88 Million with a consortium of international and local partners, plan. By crowding-in resources, this continued
support will accelerate the United Nations’ efforts
including the Norwegian Refugee Council, Humanity
and Inclusion, Development Expertise Committee, to deliver on the promise of universal, equitable
OWS-DF, Tigray Development Association, and education as outlined in the 2030 Agenda for

ducation Cannot Wait (ECW) and its reason we today announce an additional $24 million Forum for African Women Educationalist. In Sustainable Development.
strategic partners has announced a US$24 catalytic investment. However, our investment alone building on the commitments outlined in the Grand
million catalytic grant to scale-up the does not meet the needs of 8 million crisis-affected Bargain Agreement, local organizations will receive Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is the global fund for
impact of the Fund’s Multi-Year Resilience girls and boys and thus we call for the public sector approximately 50% of the total budget. education in emergencies and protracted crises in
E Programme in Ethiopia, which has already and private sector to contribute with financial the United Nations. We support quality education
reached close to half a million children. resources to this well-coordinated and holistic “Save the Children is committed to working with outcomes for refugee, internally displaced and
multi-year education programmme,” said Yasmine the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia, our partners other crisis-affected girls, and boys, so no one is
Total ECW funding in Ethiopia now tops US$88 Sherif, Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait, and other stakeholders to address both conflict and left behind. ECW works through the multilateral
million, and ECW called on donors to significantly the global fund for education in emergencies and climate-induced challenges and other stressors, system to both increase the speed of responses
expand funding for education in Ethiopia and across protracted crises in the United Nations. which are disrupting access to education for in crises and connect immediate relief and longer-
the Horn of Africa. millions of girls and boys. We are jointly working term interventions through multi-year programming.
These compounding challenges are deepening the to strengthen coordination and collaboration at all ECW works in close partnership with governments,
“Ethiopia is facing a humanitarian crisis caused humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia and across the Horn levels and ensure coherent, aligned responses for public and private donors, UN agencies, civil
by conflict, climate change, forced displacement of Africa. In all, approximately 21.4 million people children that get them back to learning in flexible, society organizations, and other humanitarian and
and economic stresses. The humanitarian funding urgently need humanitarian support in Ethiopia appropriate, and safe learning environments. development aid actors to increase efficiencies
gap for education is significant and, as a result, 8 alone. Closing gaps in financing of education is a matter of and end siloed responses. ECW urgently appeals
million children are out of school. Without access urgency, and we strongly call upon the support of all to public and private sector donors for expanded
to an education, they risk child marriage, forced Prior to this most-recent contribution by ECW stakeholders,” said Dragana Strinic, Country Director support to reach even more vulnerable children and
recruitment, killing and maiming. This is the very and its strategic donor partners, only 12% of the at Save the Children Ethiopia. youth.

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