Education Cannot Wait Annual Report 2018

In situations of conflict, forced displacement, and disasters, these children and youth are too often the most marginalized. Without access to education, they face high risks of exploitation and abuse, sexual violence, early marriage and pregnancies, forced recruitment by armed groups as well as toxic stress and trauma.
 
The report shows that Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is increasing the speed of delivering education in emergency responses in new or escalating crises. Through its emergency funding allocations, in-country responders were able to rapidly provide or restore learning opportunities to children and adolescents in sudden-onset crises such as during the new displacements in the Democratic Republic in the Congo and the new displacements in Nigeria.
 
Beyond short-term responses, ECW is also pioneering joint programs to advance humanitarian and development coherence, supporting a crucial shift of the aid system to provide continuous quality, inclusive education in protracted crises and forced displacement contexts that very often last longer than the average school curriculum.