Armed conflict and natural disasters have a devastating impact on children and their education. But international awareness of the potential value of education as a source of protection in emergencies and a key to development is growing. Early...
Over the last decade, budget work, or applied budget analysis, has become increasingly recognised as an important tool for holding governments and non-state actors accountable for their policy commitments, budget allocations and expenditure....
Most people recognise instinctively the role of education in preventing conflict and in building peace and the dangers inherent in the abuse of education systems. Against this background, part of the purpose of this report is to set out – on...
This report highlights the progress made in the two years since the public launch of the Rewrite the Future campaign in 2006. Rewrite the Future’s overall project goal is to secure good quality education for all, and to give every child the...
‘The Alert Rabbit’ tells a story about animals who prepared themselves for natural disasters and were subsequently safe from wild fire. Composed by a group of primary school students from Baan Talae Nok School in Ranong Province with support...
For the last decade, Côte d’Ivoire has experienced a socio-political crisis, which has had severe humanitarian consequences for children. Children’s enrollment and access to school have greatly declined, as did the quality of the education...
Hundreds of thousands of children are migrating within the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) and beyond in East and South-East Asia. Many are invisible to the public. Many have been exploited. Yet children’s migration has drawn little attention....
The manual outlines the steps for creating model child-friendly schools, involving children and parents – a ‘child-led child-friendly schools’ process where children are involved in defining what is child friendly and what more...
This two-page fact sheet gives key information on children’s rights, with focus on protection, poverty, health and education. The data is compiled on a bi-annual basis and made available to policy-makers and other stakeholders, in order to promote...
Last in Line, Last in School 2008 demonstrates the urgent need for donors to increase aid for education in conflict-affected fragile states (CAFS). It highlights the need for an international aid architecture that ensures long-term and sustainable...