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STORY: ETHIOPIA / EDUCATION NORWAY
TRT: 6:31
SOURCE: ECW
RESTRICTIONS: PLEASE CREDIT ECW ON SCREEN
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: DECEMBER 2022, PLEASE SEE SHOTLIST FOR DETAILS
DECEMBER 2022, OROMIA REGION, ETHIOPIA
1. Various shots, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Graham Lang, schoolchildren, ECW-supported primary school
2. Various shots, arrival at Primary School, classroom façade, schoolchildren, teacher
DECEMBER 2022, SOMALI REGION, ETHIOPIA
3. Various shots, school façade arrival at ECW-supported IFFA Primary School
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway:
“We have just visited a school in the Somali region of Ethiopia. This school was destroyed in the conflict just two years ago but is now rebuilt. Now this country is living through its worst drought in 40 years. And we just spoke to a group of parents at the school, and they told us how parents often keep their children at home to look after the livestock. But now, with school feeding - when children can come to school and get a healthy meal during the day – parents see that sending their children to school makes a lot of sense.”
5. Various shots, arrival of mission delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Minister of International Development, Norway:
“So, a healthy meal together with education is a way of building resilience, securing food security for very vulnerable people, and building local communities.”
7. Various shots, food supplies for school meals, mission delegation,
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Birgitte Lange, CEO, Save the Children Norway:
‘I'm very grateful that we can do this joint project in an area which has been very much affected by many years of conflict, of drought, of a very unstable situation where many internally displaced people are having a hard time; and then, creating schools like this one, where children can be children, having a safe space to learn, having food, getting friends, getting some stability in their lives. I'm very proud and grateful to be part of this project together with Education Cannot Wait, Save the Children and UNICEF. Thank you.”
9. Various shots, cook stirring pot, children, mission delegation
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Graham Lang, Chief of Education, Education Cannot Wait (ECW):
“One of the biggest crises at the moment is the food insecurity, which has been caused by the drought. As a result, one of the main things that's encouraging children to come to school and keep them in school is school feeding. And what we've seen today is tremendous efforts from the local community to provide a canteen, to provide school meals for children, which brings them here and keeps them here and provides them a future in this terrible conflict-affected and drought-affected crisis.”
11. Various shots, Schoolchildren
A joint mission to Ethiopia by Education Cannot Wait (ECW) and Norway International Development Minister brings attention to one of the world’s largest education crises that has left 3.6 million children out of school.
Ethiopia is facing one of the worst humanitarian crises it has seen in decades. On a joint high-level visit to Ethiopia, Education Cannot Wait and the Norwegian Minister of International Development took stock of education needs in areas affected by the compounding, crippling impacts on children due to conflict, climate change, malnutrition, and displacement.
The number of out-of-school children in Ethiopia as a result of these emergencies has spiked from 3.1 million to 3.6 million in just the last six months, according to UNICEF.
The recent conflict in Afar, Amhara, and Tigray regions have displaced families from their homes. Ongoing violence in parts of Oromia is causing further civilian displacement.
The worst drought in over four decades has made matters even worse with 24.1 million people affected, including 12.6 million children. Over 1 million people have been displaced by the drought in the Somali region alone.
Across the country, 20 million people are in need of food assistance, according to the World Food Programme.
On their high-level joint mission, Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Norway’s Minister of International Development, Graham Lang, ECW Director of the High-Level Financing Conference and Chief of Education, Birgitte Lange, CEO of Save the Children Norway, and other partners met with children and adolescents impacted by the ongoing crises in the Oromia and Somali regions.
The delegation visited schools and communities benefitting from holistic education support funded by ECW and delivered in partnership with UNICEF, Save the Children Ethiopia, and local partners in support of the Government.
In three years, the multi-year programme has reached over 250,000 vulnerable girls and boys with ‘whole-of-child’ interventions that include school-feeding, psychosocial support, teacher training, school materials, accelerated learning, gender transformative approaches, and the construction and rehabilitation of school facilities.
Community mobilization efforts, parent-teacher associations and children’s clubs support the school management in driving key results and improving learning outcomes.
Enrolment and retention rates have significantly improved, in particular for girls; with some ECW-supported schools registering up to a four-fold increase in enrolment rates since the programme started.
Education Cannot Wait – the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – has provided US$55 million in education funding investments to date in Ethiopia.
These ongoing efforts – delivered in partnership with UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, and local partners in support to the Government of Ethiopia – are building schools, providing school meals, and ensuring girls and boys affected by the multiple crises in the country receive holistic educational supports.
Innovative initiatives like gender clubs, environmental clubs, psychosocial support, and ‘speed schools’ that help children catch up after prolonged absences from learning are also generating strong results.
