CAPÍTULO IX. EVALUACIÓN DE SÍLICES MESOPOROSAS
ESTACIONARIAS PARA LA EXTRACCIÓN DE HORMONAS ESTEROIDEAS MEDIANTE SPE
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Cannot Wait and is committed to make it a success so children can continue going to school during times of conflict, emergencies and protracted crises.”
As wars, natural disasters and emergencies continue to increase across the world, becoming ever more frequent and complex, attention is falling on the educational needs of children living in crisis. Seemingly aware of the challenge, and the important contribution that education and development can make, the GPE has been building support in the area and already provides 50% of funds to countries affected by conflict and instability. Prior to backing Education Cannot Wait, earlier this year GPE signed an agreement with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on collaboration to support education for refugee children and youth.
Signing the agreement on 15 April, Albright said: “When emergencies and crises occur, education is often disrupted for extended periods of time. But even in the most challenging contexts, it is critical to engage in efforts to strengthen education systems and improve co-ordination to ensure that children can continue to go to school and fulfil their right to an education. Education provides normalcy during chaos and is a foundation upon which everything else can be built.”
Time to act
Taking a comprehensive approach in bringing together the multiple tools available to those active in education in the world’s poorest countries, GPE evidently continues to champion quality, equitable education for all, as well as working to improve girls’ education and delivering education in emergencies.
With work advancing under a new international development agenda, it remains to be seen how well the world will do in achieving the fourth Sustainable Development Goal.
It appears that the organisation remains committed to advancing work in this direction.
Conflicting interests
Amidst the disruption of conflict and crisis, educational support to children becomes at risk. While education receives less than 2% of humanitarian aid, one-quarter of the world’s school-aged children and youths live in countries affected by conflict, and it is estimated that in 35 crisis-affected countries, 75 million school-aged children and youths are presently not in school. The educational prospects of girls are disproportionately affected by crises, with girls being 2.5 times more likely to be out of school than boys. Consequently, with the low levels of funding and breakdown of educational systems in such situations, there is concern that entire generations of children and youths are being denied the right to an education. Launched during the World Humanitarian Summit on 23 and 24 May, the Education Cannot Wait initiative is designed to combine efforts to deliver education in emergencies. Bringing together actors working across education and development matters, GPE is a key partner.
Speaking on 20 May Gillard said: “The new fund will help to make the crucial link between humanitarian aid and long-term development, ensuring that children’s education is not forgotten. GPE strongly supports Education
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We know cash transfers are more efficient – they cut out chains of ‘fundermediaries’ and their associated reporting requirements – but they are also more empowering, acting as a useful stimulant to the local economy. In a similar vein, I was party to exciting discussions about the possibilities of greater use of technologies such as 3D printing. Instead of relief supplies being flown in from far-away places, innovations such as this would enable tents, medical supplies and much more to be manufactured quickly within, or close by, the communities that need them most.
Local action
The Grand Bargain also committed its signatories to a target of 25% of funding going directly to local NGOs by 2020. The current total stands at around 0.2%. This re-balancing of aid provision will give us a far greater chance of building long-term capacity close to the ground. The localisation agenda was further supported by the launch of NEAR, a network aimed at reshaping the current top-down system to one that is locally driven and built around equitable, dignified and accountable partnerships.
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he first World Humanitarian Summit has come and gone. Apparently, more than 1,500 commitments emerged from the two-day meeting which saw some 8,000 people, from 173 countries, discuss the future of the global humanitarian system at over 200 separate events. It was an intense two days; here is an attempt to synthesise my thoughts on the summit’s outcomes and what it might all mean for the work of the humanitarian community in the coming years. Let’s begin with the good bits. We saw unprecedented high-level political recognition of the scale and complexity of the challenges currently facing the humanitarian system, and from this flowed several important commitments to improving the status quo.Perhaps the most concrete outcome of the summit was The Grand Bargain. Trailed in our pre-summit report, ‘Too Important to Fail’, this landmark agreement, reached by 30 of the world’s largest donor governments and major aid organisations, should see more than USD 1bn (~€898m) redirected to frontline humanitarian aid services over the next five years thanks to improved efficiency and accountability measures. The bargain includes 51 specific commitments across ten key areas, focusing on simplifying and harmonising bureaucracy and using national and local channels to get more aid to where it’s most needed faster.
But, for me, the most exciting aspects of the agreement are those that signal a move towards putting local people at the heart of the system – commitments such as the increased use of cash transfers as opposed to the provision of vouchers or food to communities affected by crises.