UN funds vulnerable children in six countries

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Education Cannot Wait (ECW) has announced a total of $91.7 million in catalytic grant financing for new and expanded Multi-Year Resilience Programmes in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Burundi, Lebanon, Libya and Sudan. All but Bangladesh are new multi-year investments, accelerating ECW's growing expansion into countries impacted by protracted crises.

Across the six countries, the new catalytic grants aim to reach over 9,00,000 vulnerable children and adolescents, of whom 58 per cent are girls. Half of the children and adolescents targeted are refugees or internally displaced; and, 13 per cent are children with disabilities.

The new grants aim to leverage an additional $250 million worth of public and private donors' funding aligned to the multi-year programmes in the six countries to reach a total 3.3 million crisis-affected children. In all, ECW, the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, now supports Multi-Year Resilience Programmes (MYRPs) in 24 countries.

$9.17
Amount in million for grant financing

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