Global perspective, human stories
Results to Date
The Report indicates that ECW investments have reached close to 7 million children and adolescents - 48.4 per cent of whom are girls - since becoming operational in 2017. Moreover, of all children reached by ECW's investments to date, half are girls, and 43 per cent are refugee or internally displaced children.
Last year, ECW reached 3.7 million students across 32 crisis-impacted countries, 48.9 per cent were girls. An additional 11.8 million students were reached through the fund's COVID-19 intervention programmes. These schemes have brought the total number of children and adolescents supported by COVID-19 interventions to 31.2 million, 52 per cent of which are girls.
In terms of resource accessibility, last year ECW mobilized a record-breaking
The report's results were released in the wake of shocking new estimates issued by ECW in
"While progress is being made, we still have a long way to go," said
The 'Education Cannot Wait's
According to the report, conflict, forced displacement, climate-induced disasters and the compounding effect of the COVID-19 pandemic have fueled an increase in education emergencies. Funding appeals reached
Annual Results Report Highlights
More ECW grants are measuring improved levels of academic and/or social-emotional learning; 53 per cent of grants that measure learning levels showcase solid evidence of increased learning levels compared to 23 percent of grants active in 2020
The share of children reached with early-childhood education (ECE), and secondary education increased substantially. Among all children reached by ECW: the share reached for ECE increased from 5 percent in 2019 to 9 per cent in 2021; the share reached in secondary education increased from 3 percent to 11 per cent in the same period.
92 per cent of ECW-supported programmes reporting data demonstrated an improvement in gender parity
More girls and boys are completing their education and/or transitioning to the next grade/level, with a weighted completion rate of 79 per cent and transition rate of 63 per cent
Close to 27,000 teachers (52 percent female) were trained and demonstrated an increase in knowledge, capacity, or performance in 2021
Over 13,800 learning spaces are now featuring mental health and/or psychosocial support activities and the number of teachers trained on mental health and psychosocial support topics has doubled in 2021, reaching 54,000.
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