Compendium: Transitional Learning Spaces

NEW YORK, New York, 7 September 2012 – We would like to invite you to participate in the second Compendium of Transitional Learning Spaces (TLS) in emergency situations for the year 2012. Last year’s publication was a great collaborative success and is accessible here and is also available on the UNICEF website

Please reach out to your contacts and networks and pass on this call for entries and attachments with the following information:

Press release

TRIPOLI, Libya, 19 July 2012 – UNICEF is supporting the Libyan Government to enhance the availability and quality of Early Childhood Development services to children across the country.

©UNICEF Libya 2012/Echeverry Burckhardt
UNICEF Libya Deputy Representative Dr Katrin Imhof, Deputy Minister of Education Dr Suleiman Khoja(left of Imhof), and Ms Najiba Istaita(left of Dr Khoja in blue suit jacket) along with some of her team members at the Early Childhood Development Panel Discussion in a Tripoli school

As part of this support, the Libyan Department of Early Childhood Development (ECD) within the Ministry of Education yesterday held its second panel discussion on the importance of ECD in the development of young children, following a similar event in Benghazi last month.

‘Beyond School Books’ – a podcast series on education in emergencies

By Rudina Vojvoda

© UNICEF Ethiopia/2010/Fernández
Pau Gasol, the NBA star and UNICEF ambassador playing with Ethiopian children in the communities where UNICEF supports education, health and protection programs.

NEW YORK, USA, 27 April 2012 – Sixty four years ago, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, education was declared a basic human right for everyone, no matter their circumstances, gender, location, religion, language, ethnicity or socio-economic background. Yet, according to UNESCO, 67 million children of primary school age are out of school and being denied the opportunity to fully reach their potential.

‘Beyond School Books’ – a podcast series on education in emergencies

A girl learns to identify numbers on her first day of school at UNICEF-supported Preschool No. 9 in the Baliqchilar settlement, Azerbaijan.

By Rudina Vojvoda

NEW YORK, USA, 23 April 2012 – Every year, more than 200 million children under age 5 are not able to reach their full potential in cognitive development potential due to poverty, gender discrimination, conflict, malnutrition, inadequate care and lack of educational opportunities.

By Chris Niles

NEW YORK, USA, 9 January 2012 – A quality education is the cornerstone of every child’s rights, yet across the developing world millions of children’s futures are stunted because they don’t have the opportunity to learn.

UNICEF is addressing this deprivation with an innovative approach that aims to remove barriers to success in primary school by giving pre-schoolers the knowledge to successfully enter first grade.

Called ‘Getting Ready for School: a Child-to-Child Approach’, the programme is a low-cost way to provide supplemental education to pre-schoolers, especially the most marginalized.

By Chris Niles

NEW YORK, USA, 12 December 2011—Mohammad Azizul Islam, 28, is a trader in Chinipara, in the remote Rangpur region of Bangladesh. As a landless man, he has very few opportunities to make a living.

He wants his pre-school aged daughter, Akhimoni, to be educated and have a profession. Among his chief concerns is how he will pay for it.

At the moment, however, she is receiving an education. Once a week, she and another friend meet for classes that involve learning rhymes, counting and the alphabet.