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Government of Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait Announce US$18 Million Catalytic Grant and Call on Donors to Scale-Up Education Funding for Girls and Boys Impacted by Conflict

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the conflict in Ukraine stretches into its third year, the Government of Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$18 million in catalytic grant funding for a new Multi-Year Resilience Programme that will benefit over 150,000 children across ten of Ukraine's most impacted areas.

Key Points: 
  • The new catalytic grant builds on ECW's US$6.5 million in previous investments in Ukraine , which have already reached more than 360,000 children and youth - 65% of whom are girls - with quality education support.
  • This new investment benefits from ECW's pooled funding, including €10 million in contributions from Germany.
  • The Government of Japan has also committed an additional US$3 million towards the multi-year investment.
  • The new ECW grant was announced by Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi and Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif at the United Nations in New York.

Government of Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait Announce US$18 Million Catalytic Grant and Call on Donors to Scale-Up Education Funding for Girls and Boys Impacted by Conflict

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Emergency, Gender, Government, Democracy, Education, Learning, United, School, Mental health, United Nations, Female, Child, Hope, Fear, Woman, ECW, Investment, Grand bargain, UN, Tutoring

NEW YORK, March 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As the conflict in Ukraine stretches into its third year, the Government of Ukraine and Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today US$18 million in catalytic grant funding for a new Multi-Year Resilience Programme that will benefit over 150,000 children across ten of Ukraine's most impacted areas.

Key Points: 
  • The new catalytic grant builds on ECW's US$6.5 million in previous investments in Ukraine , which have already reached more than 360,000 children and youth - 65% of whom are girls - with quality education support.
  • This new investment benefits from ECW's pooled funding, including €10 million in contributions from Germany.
  • The Government of Japan has also committed an additional US$3 million towards the multi-year investment.
  • The new ECW grant was announced by Ukraine's Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi and Education Cannot Wait Executive Director Yasmine Sherif at the United Nations in New York.

Humentum Signs Pledge for Change

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Thursday, March 23, 2023
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Washington, D.C., March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humentum, a nonprofit helping social good organizations strengthen their operations, joined a dozen other organizations as a signatory of the Pledge for Change .

Key Points: 
  • Washington, D.C., March 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humentum, a nonprofit helping social good organizations strengthen their operations, joined a dozen other organizations as a signatory of the Pledge for Change .
  • The pledge builds on previous commitments, for example the Charter for Change and the Grand Bargain, in pursuit of the Global Goals agreed by world leaders in 2015.
  • The pledge emphasizes the role of local organizations and the rights, needs, and priorities of local communities.
  • It also conducted a first-of-its-kind benchmark, called the ERA Index, to assess INGO progress toward equity across 12 levers of change.