Category Archives: Refugees and displaced people

Humanitarian aid: education’s double disadvantage

Posted on 23 May 2016 by GEM Report

The GEM Report’s recent paper on trends of aid to education shows how education remains an under-prioritised and underfunded sector of humanitarian aid. Humanitarian aid makes up only a small share of the external financing that countries receive for education. … Continue reading →

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No more excuses. Provide education to all forcibly displaced people

Posted on 20 May 2016 by GEM Report

By the GEM Report and the UNHCR Education Section Days before the World Humanitarian Summit, we have jointly released a new policy paper, ‘No more excuses’, with new data showing that only 50% of refugee children are in primary school … Continue reading →

Posted in Africa, Arab States, Child soldiers, Conflict, data, Developing countries, Disaster preparedness, Equality, fragile states, Human rights, immigration, Legislation, Out-of-school children, Primary school, Quality of education, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, sdgs, syria, Uncategorized, violence | Tagged , | 6 Comments

Last chance to join the call for the new Education Crisis Platform to be adequately and sustainably financed

Posted on 5 April 2016 by GEM Report

By Kolleen Bouchane, Their World Around the world, emergencies and protracted crises disrupted the education of 80 million children and adolescents in 2015. Despite this, education in emergency contexts received less than 2 percent of all humanitarian funding last year. … Continue reading →

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Big hopes for education, and yet more big targets at the World Humanitarian Summit

Posted on 11 February 2016 by GEM Report

The UN Secretary-General’s Report, One Humanity: Shared Responsibility, was released yesterday for the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul this May. It contains calls for reform in humanitarian aid architecture that could change lives for millions if taken at their word. … Continue reading →

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Syria? Education?

Posted on 3 February 2016 by GEM Report

It’s not news that calls for funds for education in humanitarian situations are left unmet, but it doesn’t fail to shock when the actual figures are laid bare. Syria, which no one can deny is in dire need of assistance, … Continue reading →

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Conflict exacerbates already existing inequalities

Posted on 25 June 2015 by GEM Report

The EFA GMR’s last report showed that only a third of countries had reached global education goals set in 2000, and identified conflict as one of the major barriers to achieving better results. A new paper out yesterday in time … Continue reading →

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World Refugee Day and the lost generation

Posted on 20 June 2015 by GEM Report

One in 122 people worldwide is either a refugee, internally displaced, or seeking asylum, says UNHCR’s annual Global Trends Report: World at War, released last Thursday. And given that 58% of all refugees are children, World Refugee Day is a … Continue reading →

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Peshawar and the human right to education

Posted on 18 December 2014 by GEM Report

At least 132 children and 9 staff were killed this week following a Taliban attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The GMR team is dedicated to the notion that each and … Continue reading →

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Syrian refugees make the best of temporary schools

Posted on 18 March 2014 by Manos Antoninis

Mohammed, a teacher from Syria who lives in Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan, is the fourth participant in our 10-week #TeacherTuesday campaign. His daily struggle to help Syrian refugee children underlines the need to support teachers in difficult situations – … Continue reading →

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School meals boost education, communities and economies

Posted on 21 October 2013 by GEM Report

To mark World Food Day last week, Carmen Burbano of the United Nations World Food Programme looks at new evidence of the huge benefits of feeding children at school. Education has huge benefits for nutrition, as the EFA Global Monitoring … Continue reading →

Posted in Aid, Developing countries, Early childhood care and education, Economic growth, Famine, Health, Learning, Nutrition, Poverty, Refugees and displaced people | 9 Comments