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

• Pakistan (3.00%)
• Congo, Democratic Republic (5.00%)
• Haiti (3.00%)
• Uganda (4.00%)
• Egypt (3.00%)
• Yemen (3.00%)
• Central African Republic (3.00%)
• Mozambique (2.00%)
• Syria (3.00%)
• Niger (3.00%)
• Libya (2.00%)
• Mali (4.00%)
• Palestine (5.00%)
• Madagascar (2.00%)
• Ethiopia (4.00%)
• Lebanon (5.00%)
• Bangladesh (5.00%)
• South Sudan (5.00%)
• Burundi (2.00%)
• Somalia (5.00%)
• Afghanistan (5.00%)
• Sudan (5.00%)
• Myanmar (5.00%)
• Chad (3.00%)
• Colombia (3.00%)
• Burkina Faso (3.00%)
• Nigeria (5.00%)

• 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%)

• Youth Issues (principal objective)
• Disability (significant objective)
• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (significant objective)

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.

Results achieved as of March 2025 include: (1) reached 10.4 million crisis-affected children and adolescents in 33 countries, including 51% girls, representing 97% of ECW's resource-adjusted 2026 target; (2) prioritized support to the most vulnerable populations, with nearly 80% of children reached living in the world's most severe crises and more than 40% experiencing forced displacement; (3) improved education outcomes, with 97% of programmes reporting increased participation in education, 82% meeting learning retention and progression benchmarks, and 96% of reporting Multi-Year Resilience Programmes demonstrating improvements in literacy and numeracy; (4) exceeded its localization target by channeling 31% of funding directly to local and national actors; and (5) advanced gender equality, disability inclusion, climate resilience and localization priorities while strengthening collaboration across the education-in-emergencies sector through partnerships with key global education actors.

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