Project profile — Education Cannot Wait – Institutional Support 2022 to 2026

• North of Sahara, regional (4.00%)
• South of Sahara, regional (51.00%)
• West Indies, regional (4.00%)
• Middle East, regional (25.00%)
• South and Central Asia, regional (8.00%)
• Far East Asia, regional (8.00%)

• Education policy and administrative management:
Education policy and administrative management (11110) (25.00%)
Teacher training (11130) (20.00%)
• Primary education:
Primary education (11220) (30.00%)
Early childhood education (11240) (10.00%)
• Secondary Education: Secondary education (11320) (15.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (not targeted)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Disability (significant objective)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Nutrition (not targeted)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This grant represents Canada’s long-term institutional support to Education Cannot Wait (ECW). ECW uses these funds and other donor’s funding to achieve its mandate. ECW is the only global fund designed to deliver rapid, flexible support to address financing, capacity, and coordination gaps to ensure that girls and boys in crisis situations have access to quality education. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) hosts ECW under its financial human resources and administrative rules and regulations. At the same time, an independent ECW Secretariat runs operations. ECW’s mandate and work, particularly its focus on gender equality in crises, aligns with Canada’s commitment to the G7 Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education for Girls, Adolescent Girls, and Women in Developing Countries and the Feminist International Assistance Policy. ECW’s work in regions of displaced children and youth by crisis and conflict aligns with the Together for Learning campaign Canada launched in March 2022. ECW offers a platform for Canada to advance its education objectives through multilateral policy dialogue on major issues concerning global education. As a member of the High-Level Strategic Committee and the Executive Committee, Canada has helped shape ECW’s strategic policy direction and successfully pushed for stronger integration of gender equality issues in ECW’s programming and a stronger focus on refugee and displaced children and youth.

The expected outcomes as stated by the ECW include: (1) increased gender-equitable participation, retention, and completion rates in safe and inclusive learning spaces; (2) improved inclusive, gender-equitable, holistic learning and well-being outcomes; (3) increased and better funding for Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises (EiEPC); and (4) stronger EiEPC capacities and systems.

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• Proactive disclosure