Clinton Global Initiative Highlights & Commitments
18 Commitments from 19 World Renowned Organizations and Individuals in 15 Countries
Highlights from the 2007 Launch:
Commitments to improve educational opportunities for over one million conflict-affected children will:
- Provide 350,000 out-of-school children in conflict-affected regions an opportunity to attend school.
- Improve the learning environment, safety, materials and teacher quality of another 690,0000 children in conflict affected regions.
- Assist 200,000 Iraqi refugee children.
- Aid more than 300,000 children affected by the Darfur genocide.
The Commitments
Valentino Achak Deng Foundation: Commitment to build a community education complex in Valentino Achak Deng’s home town of Marial Bai in southern Sudan beginning in November 2007.
Save the Children Alliance: Commitment to expand education programs in nine different countries. Activities include teacher training, developing or improving curricula, building and refurbishing schools, setting up safe spaces in camps for refugees and the internally displaced, helping girls and marginalized children into educational programs, and supporting protection networks within schools.
Norwegian Refugee Council: Commitment to expand innovative accelerated learning programs for out-of-school Sudanese youth in Sudan and refugee camps in Kenya, and for Iraqi refugees in Lebanon.
UNICEF/Microsoft/IRC/Hewlett Packard: Commitment to develop an innovative distance learning program to provide supplementary education for displaced refugees in Middle Eastern countries. Partnership will test new interactive methods using radio, TV, laptops, and cell phones to allow refugees to participate in appropriate education lessons drawn from their national curriculum.
The IRC: Commitment to expanding field-tested Healing Classrooms Initiative in Afghanistan and other countries over a 4-year period.
GSM Association/UNHCR: Commitment to provide wireless connectivity to refugee settlements in northern Uganda, which will help train teachers and improve the learning environment in schools. The long-term goal is to identify partners to help wire refugee camps in a number of developing countries.
Sesame Workshop: Commitment to launching Sesame Street Afghanistan, which will teach Afghan children about tolerance and reconciliation.
Escuela Nueva Foundation: Commitment to provide education to children in war-affected areas of Colombia by keeping them from being subjected to the worst forms of child labor and to pioneering a new model bringing together children and youth (up to age 17), which will enable Escuela Nueva to take a more holistic approach to education in conflict.
AJWS: Commitment to tap into a network of donors and raise funds to support local, grassroots organizations providing education in Darfur, as well those providing non-formal education in Sri Lanka, Burma, and Guatemala. AJWS will also facilitate “horizontal peer exchanges,” to share best practices.
GTZ: Commitment to expand the Education Support Programme (ESP) in southern Sudan, which provides a formal and a non-formal education component as well as capacity development at all levels of intervention.
Center for Mind-Body Medicine: Commitment to expand “Healing the Wounds of War Program” to meet the psychological needs of Gaza’s most severely war-traumatized schoolchildren.
Nigel Green: Commitment to donate $50,000 to support CORD’s efforts to provide pre-primary educational support to children in refugee camps in Chad. CORD’s unique program seeks to fill a gap in refugee camps for children too young to attend primary schools, and capture the substantial benefits that quality pre-school education provides for children.
Population Council: Commitment to conduct rigorous on-site evaluations of education projects supported through the EPCC.
UNHCR, with Nike, Microsoft, WPP, and others: Commitment to reinvigorate www.ninemillion.org, an online portal that allows average people to contribute directly to education for children of conflict around the globe, focusing on “Education Plus” -- activities which include life-skills training, trauma and sport programs, and access to technology.
Children’s Investment Fund Foundation: Commitment to expand IRC’s education network in Northern Uganda to improve educational opportunities for children of conflict.
Unbound Philanthropy: Commitment to fund education projects from the EPCC over the next three years.
