“All I want is an education. And I am afraid of no one.”
– Malala Yousafzai, who just became TIME Person of the Year runner-up as a result of her fight for girls education. See her interactive timeline here.
All posts for the month December, 2012
Posted by educationinemergenciescanada on December 21, 2012
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Raise Your Voice – Global Thematic Consultation on Education
The World We Want 2015 web platform is a joint initiative between the United Nations and civil society – a growing movement with the goal of bringing people together to share their views on how we might address the biggest challenges facing our society in the post-2015 development agenda. And with this, ensuring we reflect the voices, not only of governments and policy makers but most importantly, people who have the most at stake in these discussions -the more than 1 billion people living in poverty around the world.
As part of the movement and to help shape the agenda, a series of consultations on various topics are being rolled out in collaboration with NGO’s and coalitions. For more information visit the World We Want website here.
The Education Consultation begins today – share your opinion and help shape the future of education! http://www.worldwewant2015.org/education2015
Note: if any of you would like to share your views on our blog, please let us know and we would be happy to post.
Posted by educationinemergenciescanada on December 10, 2012
https://educationinemergenciescanada.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/raise-your-voice-global-thematic-consultation-on-education/
Women and Girls on the Map in Disaster
How are we portraying women and girls in disaster? Are they shown as victims, lacking agency? Linda Raftree works with Plan International USA and blogs about cutting edge use of technology in development. Check out her post on putting women and girls on the map in disaster. The post discusses the resiliency of women and girls and how they are taking action within their communities to mitigate and prevent disaster. Through the use of crowdsourcing applications – we can show it!
Disaster Risk Reduction is increasingly finding a place on the development agenda, so much so that the UN has designated an International Day for Disaster Reduction. Mapping gender in disaster situations is an emerging area within DRR and has something EiE Canada is looking at exploring further over the next few months. Stay tuned for more on DDR and EiE Canada!
Posted by educationinemergenciescanada on December 4, 2012
https://educationinemergenciescanada.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/women-and-girls-on-the-map-in-disaster/
Education in Emergencies 