Past Program

A child's experiences—both positive and negative—lay the groundwork for their future development, health, and wellbeing. Displacement ruptures the social fabric of childhood, removing children from their communities and significantly increasing their risk to experience hunger, bullying and gender-based violence, as well as long-term hardship such as unemployment and depression. In many contexts education is one of the only systems of support that remains in their lives, making it crucial in developing the socio-emotional skills to navigate change and uncertainty. 

The fourth network meeting focused on planning the virtual roundtable discussions on March 9, 2022, with the goal of promoting greater inclusion of PSS/SEL in education for holistic learning outcomes in displaced contexts. The roundtables were planned to cover topics such as challenges and solutions for assessment, stakeholder engagement, effective advocacy, and determining what approaches work best for social and emotional learning. The different roundtable groups planned to discuss their sessions in breakout groups before presenting their approach to the rest of the network.   

This new network is part of Porticus’ All Eyes on Learning Program. AEoL focuses on strengthening collaborative action, networking, learning and advocacy amongst influential actors working on the delivery of educational services to children and young people caught up in displacement and crisis.   
  
The network connects donors, intergovernmental agencies, governments and educators to create and sustain commitment to whole child development in contexts of conflicts and crisis. Connecting diverse stakeholders, who in turn have connections to other networks, will help advocate for and amplify the call for quality education and whole child development for some of the most vulnerable children and students in the world.