Project Highlights for 2021
  • EAA, along with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Children and Armed Conflict organised a high-level event to celebrate the International Day to Protect Education from Attack. The virtual event, under the title ‘Protect Education for Sustainable Peace’, constituted a platform to discuss building sustainable education and peace, governance mechanisms, and legal mechanisms for protecting education, as well as the importance of collecting data and evidence to hold perpetrators accountable and achieve justice for victims. The high-level event brought together a number of world leaders and the United Nations, as well as advocates for youth issues, policy makers and academics.
  • EAA unveiled the Data Project, a new tool which applies humanitarian technology to generate reliable, timely data on attacks on education to be freely shared. Advocates, policy makers, journalists, as well as humanitarian and development workers and communities will be able to use the tool to better understand the challenges of safeguarding quality education during conditions of conflict.
  • A global community initiative to develop and implement effective measures that protect education from attack using #UniteToProtect was launched. The campaign was active in 156 countries across all regions including US, Europe, UK, GCC, South-East Asia, Africa, and South America, recording over 96,300 unique engagements and 40,000 unique campaign mentions.
  • EACI raised awareness of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack with UK universities and network organisations supporting hundreds of schools.

PARTNERS

UNESCO

UNICEF

KoBo Toolbox

Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack (GCPEA)

Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)

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2021
Accomplishments EAA Annual Report

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