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. 

This eighth network meeting heard from two speakers: Ashley Nemiro from MHPSS Collaborative on two case study (first case – School-based MHPSS Interventions in Humanitarian Context, 2 case – Examining enabling environments for MHPSS programming in education setting in humanitarian context) and Taifur Islam with Khalid Mehran from BRAC on BRAC’s Paracounselor Model.  It gave participants a chance to ask questions and suggest themes that they would like future network meetings to address.    

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.