Education Cannot Wait - Institutional Support 2019-2022

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW). ECW uses these funds along with other donor’s funding to achieve its mandate. ECW is the only global fund designed to deliver rapid flexible support to address gaps in financing capacity and coordination to ensure that girls and boys in crisis situations have access to quality education. ECW is hosted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and is administered under UNICEF's financial human resources and administrative rules and regulations while operations are run by an independent ECW Secretariat. ECW is the first global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises. It was established during the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 by international humanitarian and development aid actors along with public and private donors. Based on the recognition that continuous access to quality learning is a priority for children and families affected by conflicts natural disasters and displacement and that no organization can do it alone ECW comes as a ground-breaking initiative bringing together public and private partners eager to work together differently and mobilise the funding required to deploy immediate and sustainable programmes tailor-made to the educational needs of these children. ECW focuses on mobilizing governments and humanitarian and development actors to raise predictable multi-year financing build the capacity of national and global actors and improve coordination of education responses to crisis. ECW supports activities designed to meet education needs for crises-affected children and youth between the ages of 3 and 18. ECW supports activities such as the provision of learning materials and psychosocial support school and classroom equipment and infrastructure teacher training and support as well as non-formal education programs. ECW aims to reach 8 million affected children and youth by 2021 including those with disa

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to education for crisis-affected girls and boys; (2) strengthened equity and gender equality in education in crisis; (3) increased continuity and sustainability of education for crisis-affected girls and boys; (4) improved learning and skills outcomes for crisis-affected girls and boys; and (5) safe and protective learning environment and education ensured for all crisis-affected girls and boys. In addition ECW has set five key strategic outputs: (1) increased political support to education for crisis-affected girls and boys; (2) increased education in emergency funding for populations in need; (3) joint locally-owned planning and timely response; (4) strengthened local and global capacity for analysis programming monitoring and evaluation; and (5) evidence-based programs for equitable continued quality and protective education in emergencies in place.