UN Small children and Armed Conflict Office environment, UNESCO Signal Settlement to Strengthen Cooperation on Education and learning for Little ones Living in Conflict Parts – Environment
Intercontinental Day to Safeguard Instruction from Attack
New York, 9 September 2022 – The Office environment of the Unique Consultant of the UN Secretary-Common for Youngsters and Armed Conflict and UNESCO signed a memorandum of understanding on joint cooperation in the security and continuation of training in armed conflict these days. The arrangement, signed in the margins of the commemoration of the International Day to Guard Education from Attack, emphasizes particularly the importance of education as part of reintegration programmes for children previously involved with armed forces or groups and the centrality of prevention. The settlement, on top of that, complies with UN Safety Council resolutions 2427 (2018) and 2601 (2021) and helps in the direction of their operationalization.
“The correct to instruction is for all little ones, such as those influenced by conflict. This collaboration with UNESCO will permit the development of ground breaking tasks benefitting small children residing in conflict locations by setting up on the technical expertise of the two places of work,” stated the Distinctive Agent of the UN Secretary-Typical for Young children and Armed Conflict, Ms. Virginia Gamba.
Specific collaborative jobs will be proven as aspect of this settlement these kinds of as the development of accelerated education curricula for kids and youth benefiting from reintegration assistance, the instruction of lecturers, and the provision of capacity-constructing on the monitoring and reporting of attacks against schools in conditions of issue, between other folks.
Furthermore, in line with the UN Safety Council resolution 2427 (2018) on avoidance, and 2601 (2021) solely focused to the protection of schooling, this collaboration need to aid to superior hyperlink peace, stability, and instruction via avoidance routines, to strengthen prevention mechanisms, and establish instruments to much better put into practice UN Protection Council resolution 2601 in phrases of checking attacks on education and learning.
“The quantity of assaults on schools, learners, and educational personnel as very well as the military use of universities carries on to increase, with a devastating impact on small children, in particular girls. Guaranteeing that all young children produced from armed forces or teams have accessibility to long-term, gender- and age-sensitive reintegration help, like education and learning, is essential to their recovery, but also to the sustainable peace and development of their societies,” stated Virginia Gamba. “We look ahead to operating with UNESCO on these types of a fundamental concern.”
The SRSG CAAC Office’s Assessment and Outreach Hub in Doha, Qatar, will employ the MoU, in collaboration with UNESCO like its regional business in Doha, and many thanks to the guidance of the Qatar Fund for Progress. This year’s International Day to Safeguard Training from Assault precedes a sequence of forthcoming initiatives connected to the UN’s Transforming Education and learning Summit later in September convened by the UN Secretary-Common and supported by a assortment of companions, together with the Point out of Qatar. The Summit functions an action track on Instruction in Crisis Predicaments that SRSG CAAC’s Place of work will proceed to spotlight and work through with UNESCO and partners starting off with the UN Normal Assembly 77th Session’s high-level segment.
The Global Day to Secure Education From Assault, taking put each individual calendar year on 9 September, was made a decision upon by the Typical Assembly in 2020 at the initiative of Her Highness Sheikha Moza of Qatar, Chairperson of Education Earlier mentioned All and UN Sustainable Enhancement Plans Advocate.
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