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Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Nigeria

Strategy and Guides

Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Nigeria

Since Safe Schools Nigeria was originally published in the spring of 2014, more than $30 million has been mobilized to protect schools in Northeast Nigeria. To date, nearly 50,000 Nigerian children displaced from their homes by Boko Haram have benefited from student transfer programs, school reconstruction programs, or education strategies within IDP camps organized by the Safe Schools Initiative. (more…)

Strong Schools and Communities Initiative: Working Together to Build Safe Schools and Protective Learning Environments

Strategy and Guides

Strong Schools and Communities Initiative: Working Together to Build Safe Schools and Protective Learning Environments

In partnership with UNICEF and A World at School, the new Strong Schools and Communities Initiative will explore opportunities for school communities, national authorities, and the private sector to strengthen programs that protect learning environments and promote an open dialogue among communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. This report documents the plight of school children in the region, home to the highest rate of armed violence in the world, and identifies how the initiative will inform policies and programs that the government can utilize to create safe schools. (more…)

Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Pakistan

Strategy and Guides

Safe Schools Initiative: Protecting the Right to Learn in Pakistan

Over the past four decades, Pakistan has experienced more attacks on education than any country in the world. As the Pakistani government works to ensure schools are safe for all children, this paper outlines 15 best practices building on global expertise and experience. The best practices are intended to complement and support current government activities; to highlight proven measures to make schools safe; and to serve as a basis for a framework to build school and community based interventions to promote safe schools in Pakistan with support from the international community. (more…)

Ebola Emergency: Restoring Education, Creating Safe Schools and Preventing a Long-term Crisis

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Ebola Emergency: Restoring Education, Creating Safe Schools and Preventing a Long-term Crisis

Education has been one of the first casualties of the Ebola outbreak. Nearly five million children were out of school due to Ebola-related school closures in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - many indefinitely. Students who fall behind for a year or more are significantly more at risk of dropping out of school and this increased risk of drop out, coupled with the trauma of loss and greater poverty, could mean that large numbers of children will never return to the classroom. (more…)