25 January 2021: Launch of the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies
The Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies is a pledge issued at the 2019 Global Refugee Forum by ten key institutions to join forces and collectively make a difference for the education of crisis-affected and displaced children and youth. The Hub was launched on the occasion of the 2021 International Day of Education on 25 January 2021 The launched featured a high-level panel will exchange with participants on how the Geneva Global Hub can be a catalyst for change to respond to children’s education needs in contexts affected by conflict, violence, disasters and displacement. The webinar was conducted in English, with interpretation provided in Arabic, French, Portuguese, Spanish, as well as sign language.
NORRAG is supporting the launch as a partner to several organizations working to establish a hub which can engage governments, humanitarian, development, and academic actors to come together for transformative joint action.
Watch the launch event
Also available in AR I ES I FR I PT
Watch the video ‘Voices from the field’ produced by NORRAG for the event
Watch the video announcement for the launch with Ambassador Jürg Lauber, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and the other international organisations in Geneva:
Programme (Download in English, العربية, Français, Español & Português)
Partners:
- Education Cannot Wait: @EduCannotWait
- The Graduate Institue: @IHEID
- Global Education Cluster: @GlobalEdCluster
- UNHCR: @UNHCR_Education
- International Committee of the Red Cross: @ICRC
- The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies: @INEEtweets
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: @UNESCO
- Université de Geneve: @UNIGEnews
- UNICEF: @UNICEFEducation
- Switzerland: Federal Department of Foreign Affairs FDFA @EDA_DFAE; @SwissDevCoop; @SwissHumAidUnit; @SwissMFA; @swiss_un
- EiE Hub coordinator: @PetraHeusser
Official event hashtag:
#EiEGenevaHub
Other hashtags to use in connection with the launch: #StrongerTogether, #UnlockChangeforEiE, #SDG4, #EducationDay
Picture credits: UNICEF/Iraq2015/Anmar