Why climate change is one of the biggest threats to education — and growing
UNICEF reports that half of the world’s 2.2 billion children are at “extremely high risk” for climate change, including its impact on education. Here’s why.
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Education provides one of the best routes out of poverty
Concern Worldwide believes that all children have the right to an education.
We aim to improve the lives of extremely poor and vulnerable children in a sustainable way by increasing access to quality primary education and supporting child wellbeing.
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Education in emergencies
Ibrahim Hanano School in Raqqa. Concern supported the rehabilitation of the existing toilet blocks and building a new block containing eight new classrooms. Photo: Concern Worldwide
Concern has been implementing education in emergency contexts for over 30 years in countries like Somalia, and we have continued to expand Education in Emergencies (EiE) and Non-Formal Education (NFE) programming.
In 2022, 42.3% of Education programme participants were in emergency contests. In the same year, we reached
- 125,000 programme participants directly by EiE interventions (53% female)
- 660,000 programme participants indirectly by EiE interventions (50.4% female)
Concern’s humanitarian identity mandates us to prioritise and maintain capacity to respond quickly and effectively to emergencies and we will respond to the right to protection and to education through contextually relevant interventions that address Access, Quality and Wellbeing.
Access
The Access component of Emergencies focuses on:
- Strengthened education systems that monitor and improve Time-on-Task, continuity of learning (during and following emergencies) and school disruptions.
- Increased community and caregiver engagement in supporting equitable access to education, including school readiness.
- Improved knowledge, practice and coverage of community-school management mechanisms to improve access to education for vulnerable and excluded children and adolescents.
Temporary Learning Spaces and Accelerated Learning
In Niger, bridging classrooms allowed 1,400 out of school students in 2022 to benefit from the Accelerated Learning Programme and to transition back into formal education.
And in Syria, non formal education Centres allow out of school children to catch up and access psychosocial support to reintegrate into formal school.
Distance audio learning
School rehabilitation
Community education committees
Students do 45 minutes of SEL (Safe Healing and Learning Spaces) activities each a day in an SEL class. SEL is integrated throughout the programme, so a facilitator might touch on SEL subjects, such as cooperation, in other lessons. Photo: Concern Worldwide
Quality
The Quality component of Emergencies focuses on:
- Strengthened education systems that monitor and improve learning outcomes (Literacy, Numeracy, Transition).
- Strengthened education systems that support teachers to teach foundational skills and support students.
- Increased caregiver engagement in the learning process of adolescents and children including family literacy.
Wellbeing
The Wellbeing component of Emergencies focuses on:
- Strengthened education systems that prevent and effectively respond to SRGBV and promote child protection.
- Strengthened education systems to address nonspecialised psychosocial needs of children, adolescents and teachers.
- Increased caregiver and/or community engagement in child wellbeing including positive parenting.
A gap in access to education due to emergencies will cost future generations the health, income, equality and wellbeing benefits associated with education, trapping them in a vicious poverty cycle. The longer children remain out of school, the less likely it is they will return. Concern therefore aim to minimise the negative impacts of disruption to education by supporting children to enrol or return to learning in the shortest possible time.
