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.