Education Cannot Wait has raised $826 million toward its global work supporting children affected by war, climate disasters, and other humanitarian crises to get an education, meeting about half the fund’s overall target and disappointing advocates.
ECW — the United Nations fund for education in emergencies — hoped to raise closer to its $1.5 billion goal in new financing after securing money from new donors at a pledging conference held in Switzerland last week.
Geneva-based ECW was established during the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit to bridge the divide between humanitarian aid — only 2% goes toward education — and development aid, which always comes too late to deal with refugee crises.
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Sophie Edwards
Sophie Edwards is a Devex Contributing Reporter covering global education, water and sanitation, and innovative financing, along with other topics. She has previously worked for NGOs, and the World Bank, and spent a number of years as a journalist for a regional newspaper in the U.K. She has a master's degree from the Institute of Development Studies and a bachelor's from Cambridge University.
