New ECW Results Report highlights significant learning outcomes achieved for children and adolescents in crisis settings and calls for urgent additional donor support to meet the rapidly escalating needs. NEW YORK , Sept. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The global community is falling behind on its promise to ensure ' quality education for all ' by 2030.
Armed conflicts, forced displacement, climate change, and other emergencies and protracted crises have left more than 224 million crisis-affected children in urgent need of education support, a sharp rise from 75 million in 2016. Despite these growing needs, funding for education in emergencies and protracted crises dropped for the first time in a decade, according to Education Cannot Wait's ' Results Against All Odds: 2023 Annual Results Report ', launched today in New York . Overall humanitarian funding for education decreased by 3% last year, from US$1.
2 billion in 2022 to US$1.17 in 2023, according to the report. Education Cannot Wait ( ECW ), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises within the United Nations, and its strategic partners continue to defy the odds, delivering life-saving, life-sustaining and multi-year investments in education to the world's most vulnerable children and adolescents.
Since ECW became operational in 2017, its investments have reached 11 million children and adolescents, including 5.6 million girls and boys in 2023 alone. This reach is unprecedented.
Yet, much more resources.