What have we learned about education plight of children around the world?
Education funding, Education in emergencies
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Syrian refugee children at a school in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Picture: A World at School
A couple of years ago, it was a struggle to get world leaders to sit up and take notice of the importance of funding education around the world.
Now 鶹APP thanks to pressure from organisations and millions of people who backed campaigns like our #UpForSchool Petition 鶹APP the right of every child to get a free, quality education is at the heart of the global agenda.
Unfortunately, as those leaders prepareto gather at the United Nations General Assembly next week, promises are still not being backed by actions.
Funding and other support is needed urgently to help 75 million children and adolescents living in countries affected by humanitarian emergencies.
With the UN General Assembly just days away, what have we learned during September that should give the international policymakers and funders food for thought?
28 million children have been driven from their homes and education by conflicts
Iraqi boy at a camp for internally displaced people in Erbil Picture: UNICEF/Anmar
That鶹APPs just one of many shocking statistics revealed in a on the growing refugee crisis for children.
One in every 200 children in the world is now a refugee.There are 50 million child refugees and the number has soared by 77% in five years.
Only half of child refugees 鶹APP those who have moved to other countries 鶹APP are enrolled in primary school and less than one in four in secondary school. And when it comes to children displaced within their own countries, the figures are even worse.
UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said: 鶹APPIf young refugees are accepted and protected today, if they have the chance to learn and grow, and to develop their potential, they can be a source of stability and economic progress.鶹APP
Lack of funding means education targets will be missed by decades
Illustration from the youth version of the UNESCO report
Last year the UN agreed a set of global goals to be achieved by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into force in January and include free, quality education for every child at every age level.
That was great news. But can it be achieved?
According to a , on current trendsall girls and boys will not go to primary school until 2042 and lower secondary until 2059.
And full secondary education for all will not be achieved until 2084 鶹APP more than 50 years late.
Funding would need to be SIX TIMES higher than currently to achieve universal education by 2030, said the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) 2016 report.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs, in the foreword, said: 鶹APPThis report should set off alarm bells around the world and lead to a historic scale-up of actions to achieve (this goal).鶹APP
Crisis in the Lake Chad Basin is hitting children hard
Seven-year-old Zenabou fled with her family from Nigeria to a camp in Diffa, Niger Picture: UNICEF/Phelps
The children鶹APPs charity regionof Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Chad who are in dire need of humanitarian help.
The violent insurgency of Boko Haram has forced millions to flee and created a severe education emergency with 1500 schools damaged, destroyed or occupied and the education of at least one million children dangerously threatened.
鶹APP 鶹APP the charity behind A World at School 鶹APP called on world leaders to provide safe, quality education for all children, safe spaces andpsychosocial support for children, teachers and caregivers.
Urgent action is needed to get Syrian refugee children in school
Filippo Grandi meets a Syrian boy in Ankara Picture: UNHCR/Ali Unal
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has warned that urgent action is needed to prevent thousands of Syrian refugee children out of school in Turkey from becoming a lost generation.
Filippo Grandi said his agency needs to do more to help Turkey 鶹APP which hosts three million refugees including 2.7 million Syrians.
鶹APPEverything starts with an education,鶹APP he said during a visit to the capital Ankara.
He鶹APPs right. World leaders pledged to get all Syrian refugee children into schools in neighbouring countries this year. But six months after that promise was made at a Syria summit in London, they have just days to come up with the $1 billion still needed.
Displaced population would make the world鶹APPs 21st largest country
There are more than 65 million forcibly displacedpeople (IDP) globally. If they all resettled in one place, it would bethe 21st largest country in the world 鶹APPlarger in populationthan the United Kingdom and nearly three times as large asAustralia.
That鶹APPs the background to a on September 14, which says IDPs are falling far behind others in terms of education, health, child marriage and other key factors.
The 鶹APPIDPs country鶹APP wouldrank fourth last on primary school attendance and almost last at secondary school level.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt, CEO of Save the Children International, said: 鶹APPForcibly-displaced people face huge challenges, but if governments work together, along with non-governmental organisations and the private sector, we can improve their circumstances.鶹APP
Refugees are five times more likely to be out of school than the average child
The on September 15 showing that more than half 鶹APP 3.7 million 鶹APP of the six million school-age children under its mandate have no school to go to.
It says refugees are five times more likely to be out of school than the global average.
Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, said: 鶹APPThis represents a crisis for millions of refugee children.
鶹APPRefugee education is sorely neglected, when it is one of the few opportunities we have to transform and build the next generation so they can change the fortunes of the tens of millions of forcibly displaced people globally.鶹APP
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