Jamie Weiss-Yagoda

📢The crisis has had detrimental impacts on children and youth beyond learning! 📘Check out the State of the Crisis Report: buff.ly/3GGnvHf @WorldBank @UNICEF @UNESCO #COVID #education

Alfonsi: I think a lot of people will say, "We don't want to see aid go to Afghanistan because we don't want to give money to the Taliban.” Vicki Aken, IRC: So you want to make 38m people suffer because of a few thousand? That math doesn't work for me. cbsn.ws/31SMyaP

“If I ruled the world, the one thing that I would do is invest in the education of women & girls & their empowerment.” Thank you @SpeakerPelosi for focusing on how education is life-saving at #COP26— especially as women & girls are the most affected by climate change.

The situation for girls in places prone to conflict and crisis can change in an instant. This #InternationalDayoftheGirl, the IRC has identified the following countries as the most challenging places to grow up as a girl. Learn more: rescue.org/article/five-m…

Critical that the @g20org meeting today agree a mechanism to deliver vital aid, including for education. Millions in funding is frozen and must flow again for schools to reopen. #Together4Afghans #G20Italy theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…

This #IDG2021 the girls will be centre stage. At our live online event with @UNGEI we will interview girls from Ethiopia, Kenya, Sierra Leone & Uganda to hear their hopes, challenges & messages to world leaders. To find out more and register pwc.to/3a0f7nm

Protecting the right to education for Afghan children will require a significant increase in coordinated international support. Today 5️⃣0️⃣ organisations have endorsed @IPNEducation’s call for the @G20org to develop & fund a plan for Afghan education. 🖱️ ipned.org/education-and-…

“We have clear qualitative research indicating that if teachers feel comfortable & have more skill in teaching social-emotional learning, children will have improved academic outcomes.” ~Lawrence Aber @NYUGlobalTies @rescueorg @yasminesherif1 @fcdoeducation @unhcr_education @un

.@RESCUEorg CEO @DMiliband 5 Priorities: ✅Displaced populations included in formal education ✅Direct funding on multiyear basis to fund outcomes ✅Treat formal/informal education as complementary ✅Recognize #SEL as critical ✅Disciplined approach to tech. @yasminesherif1 @un

Today at 2pm ET, IRC's country director for Venezuela & Colombia Marianne Menjivar will testify to @HouseForeign on the needs of children in crisis & how the US government can meet these needs, including investing in early childhood education. Tune in here:foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?Conte…

Join @SecBlinken and his old pal @Grover as they chat with new friends Noor and Aziz about all the things they have in common – including their shared love of playful learning!