Refugee Education Pledges Update: Supporting Learning Journeys & Sharing Resources With a Global Network
Childhood Education International is dedicated to working collectively to ensure that refugees have access to safe, quality, and relevant educational opportunities and are included in national education systems.
Toward that goal, CE International announced two international refugee education pledges as part of the Global Refugee Forum in December 2023. Joining pledges of other organizations and governments worldwide, we made commitments to demonstrate how we plan to meet the goals of the Global Compact on Refugees.
Progress Toward The Pledges
CE International’s refugee education pledges focused on providing support and resources for refugee education in a variety of displacement, migration, and emergency contexts between 2024-2029. CE International is proud to share that we are making steady and significant progress toward our pledges.
Pledge 1: Supporting Learning Journeys
Childhood Education International is committed to providing access to quality, holistic, continuous professional development for pre-primary through secondary school educators working in contexts of emergency, crisis, displacement, migration, and refugee settings and supporting refugees’ and (im)migrants’ pathways to entering the teaching profession within national education systems.
CE International pledges to support at least 20,000 educators’ learning journeys over the next 5 years through Open Educational Resources, workshops, webinars, communities of practice, and other opportunities created with teachers for teachers in alignment with national education initiatives and in collaboration with other INGOs, university teacher preparation programs, government ministries, and education leadership partners.
In 2024, CE International has supported professional learning for educators through workshops, webinars, events, multiple online community of practices, and hosted open educational resources. We have developed several long-term and short-term virtual and in-person learning opportunities for educators and have created and shared materials in order to reach a wider audience. Additionally, we host multiple virtual community of practice spaces to create connections between educators and resources.
Through this outreach, we estimate we have reached 10,663 educators — about 53% of our five-year pledge in one year.
Pledge 2: Reaching a Global Network of Educators
CE International is committed to advocating for and increasing awareness about the importance of integrating inclusive early childhood development and education and early intervention in inter-sectoral responses to crises and displacement to ensure that the youngest children from refugee, displaced, and host communities have access to national and local systems that support quality, holistic, and inclusive early childhood services that uphold child rights and promote safety and protection.
Through our communications platforms and publications, CE International will reach a global network of at least 15,000 child development leaders, educators, and other education leaders in the next 5 years through the distribution of resources, events, and reports featuring the importance of early childhood development and education and early intervention as it relates to contexts of crises and displacement.
In 2024, CE International shared resources through our Open Educational Resource Library, social media platforms, email lists, online communities, and the Early Childhood Development Task Force (ECDtf). These resources have related to children with disabilities, inclusive early childhood development, and education and early intervention in inter-sectoral responses to crises and displacement.
While identifying an exact number is difficult, we estimate that social media posts have had more than 627,000 impressions and that emails have gone to more than 1,200 ECDtf members, and more than 7,500 users have viewed Open Educational Resource Library pages on our website. We estimate we have reached approximately 8,700 educators with these materials — about 58% of our five-year pledge.
Next Steps
CE International has submitted this progress update to the Global Compact on Refugees for its Pledges and Contributions tracker. We plan to continue to advance toward achieving these five-year goals and improving refugees’ access to safe, quality, and relevant educational opportunities and inclusion in national education systems.