Agenda

The Sharjah Child Friendly Office aims to launch the Sharjah Child Friendly School and Nurseries toolkit in this invitation-only session. The standard has been guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and experience of UNICEF worldwide, in implementing rights-based approaches to education and evidence pertaining to child development.

Speakers:

Dr. Hessa Khalfan Al Ghazal

Executive Director
Sharjah Child Friendly Office

H.E. Dr. Khawla Al Mulla

General Secretary
Supreme Council For Family Affairs

H.E. Dr. Muhadditha Al Hashimi

Chairperson
Sharjah Private Education Authority

H.E. Dr. Saeed Musabeh Al Kaabi

Chairperson
Sharjah Education Council

Mr. El Tayeb Adam

Area Representative
UNICEF Gulf Area Office

This panel will explore decentralized and accelerated education models in West Africa. It will examine why these approaches are needed, especially in crises contexts where state delivery is limited and where INGOs and UN actors are playing a bigger role in education provision.

Speakers:

H.E. Mr. Stanislas Ouaro

Minister of National Education and Literacy of Burkina Faso (Virtual)

Dr. Mansur Muhtar

Vice President, Country Programs, Islamic Development Bank

Marjorie Chéron

Head of Cooperation, Embassy of Canada to Burkina Faso and to Benin

Titus Tenga

International Director, Strømme Foundation

Stepping away from the usual to unusual, in this masterclass, Aman Merchant and Indy Johar will share their experience of crafting the RewirEd Provocations and take the participants through an open-ended thinking process of reimagining global education from a systems perspective. Provocations can be a powerful narrative tool for reframing challenges into opportunities, that inspire action from multiple stakeholders.

Speakers:

Aman Merchant

Chief Provocateur of Radicle

Indy Johar

Chief Strategic Designer of Radicle (Virtual)

Speakers:

Azad Oommen

Co-Founder
Global School Leaders

Dr. Colin Kennedy

Head, School of Innovation at Creative HQ

Inés Yábar

Senior Global Campaigns Coordinator, Restless Development

COVID-19 dictated the need to rapidly scale up flexible education options to reach all learners, however there is still confusion around which programmes are appropriate for which learners. This interactive session introduces the Accelerated Education Working Group’s COVID-19 tools and guidance supporting programme design, implementation and evaluation.

Speakers:

Martha Hewison

Accelerated Education Working Group (AEWG) Chair, UNHCR

Kayla Boisvert

Accelerated Education Working Group (AEWG) advisor

Ayoo Irene Hellen

Refugee Youth Representative

Five of Africa’s most promising Education Innovations will pitch to a highly experienced panel of judges for awards of $100,000, $70,000 and $40,000. The selected innovations will be implemented as pilot projects in AU Member countries.

In-Person Judges:

Anthony Bloome

Founder and Executive Director, mEducation Alliance. (Judge)

Ernst Hustaedt

Programme Manager, GIZ - SIFA (Judge)

Unami Mpofu

Team Lead-Skills & Employability, AUDA-NEPAD (Judge)

Innovators:

Elijah Lubala

Founder & Software Engineer, SOLAR-FI

Samson Wambuzi

Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Yiya AirScience

Warwick Vlantis

Project Co-founder & lead, African Coding Network (Virtual)

Rudolph Ampofo

Craft Education, Hunu Teletherapy

Omar Trabelsi

Class Quiz, Tunisia

Virtual Speakers (Judges):

Hema Vanam

Regional Programme Officer, CAFOR

Angela Arnott

Program Design, GESCI

Shem Okore Bodo

Senior Program Officer, ADEA

Youth-led programs for early childhood care and education (ECCE) offer an innovative strategy to provide mutual benefits for both youth and young children. This session will feature case studies from Pakistan, Colombia, Liberia, and the United States, highlighting implications for policy development, new directions for programs, and continued research.

Speakers:

Angelica Ponguta

Assoc. Research Scientist
Yale Child Study Center

Amanda Devercelli

Global Lead of Early Childhood Dev
The World Bank Group

Saima Siyal

Research Director
DREAM NGO Singh

Emily Franchett

Research Co-ordinator
Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Randi Wolfe

Exec Director
Early Care and Education Pathways to Success (ECEPTS) (virtual)

Vidya Putcha

Senior Program Officer
Results for Development (R4D) (virtual)

Frances Beaton-Day

Education Consultant
The World Bank Group (virtual)

Organised by: World Economic Forum (by invite only) - WEF meeting room, Level 1

We have increasingly seen investment in and prioritization of research in EiE, however knowledge production remains driven by predominantly Global North institutions. While National and Regional evidence exists, it is necessary to elevate and amplify this work globally. This session will showcase innovations in localized knowledge production as well as provide an opportunity for open discussion and creative brainstorming of best practice.

Speakers:

Kayla Boisvert

ACCESS Research

Nadeen Alalami

Dubai Cares

Silvia Diazgranados

IRC

UNRWA will briefly present its concept of quality education and the responsibility of the global community to help facilitate quality education for Palestine refugee children. UNRWA will also tackle the significant adversity it faces in the region and its plan to overcome this adversity through education innovation. UNRWA is in charge of ensuring SDG 4 for the Palestine refugee population.

Speakers:

Moritz Bilagher

Acting Director of Education, UNRWA

Reem Jeibat

Chief of Technical and Vocational Education Training and Youth, UNRWA

Dr. Iyad Zaqout

Head of Mental Health and Psycho-social Support Unit (Gaza), UNRWA

Leen Shaker Al Falah

Refugee Student, Syria

Led by Radicle, this session will focus on access to a healthy environment as a precondition for physical and mental well-being as well as cognitive development and learning. Our schools and learning environments, much like our cities, are currently modeled on reductive principles of management and efficiency rather than on ecological consciousness, humaneness, well-being, and creativity. What might education look like, if we repurposed and redesigned our learning environments to be more directly connected to nature and the community? This interactive dialogue will also share the experiment journeys & learnings of 2 experiments from the Sandbox on this topic.

Speakers:

Salman Sabbab

Senior Manager, BRAC Social Innovation Lab

Linnea Ronnequest

Strategic Designer, Dark Matter Labs (Virtual)

This playful hands-on workshop will present why the LEGO Foundation believes that learning through play is one of the most effective way for children to learn and develop the necessary skills to become lifelong learners.

Speakers:

Michael Renvillard

Facilitation Lead
The Lego Foundation

Casper Aarlit Jensen

Senior Facilitation Manager, The Lego Foundation

In this session, by delving deeply into some of the promising models emerging from the UAE, experts will provide a nuanced overview of the core components of successful digital learning solutions and the necessary conditions for innovation in this space to thrive particularly in contexts left farthest behind in the digital divide globally.

Speakers:

Geoffrey Alphonso

CEO, Alef Education

Dr. Waleed Al Ali

Advisor
Executive Office of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Mr. Anthony Bloome

Founder and Executive Director
mEducation Alliance

Mr. Gopi Krishnan (Krish)

Group Chief Disruption Manager, Varkey Foundation

Marcos Muller-Habig

Chief Technology Officer, 42 Abu Dhabi

Engaging with music, art and sport is essential to the human experience. Almost as soon as motor skills are developed, children communicate through artistic expression. While we recognize the transformative impacts of music, arts and sport to both academic achievement and key life skills, their place in K-12 education has become increasingly tenuous. This panel will passionately argue for centering innovation in education in the teaching of arts, music and sports.

Speakers:

Zara Mahmood

Artist & Adjunct Professor at American University in Dubai and Zayed University

Juan Diego Florez

Opera Singer

Clarence Seedorf

Football Icon, Entrepreneur and Philantropist

The panel will discuss how to support cognitive, physical, and mental health of learners in online environment and what are available solutions for safety and cyber wellbeing in education from academic, private and UNESCO perspectives. Participants are international experts, prominent researchers and academicians, and representatives of the private sector.

Speakers:

Mr. Tekha Selim

Vice President, Global Market Development, Delos

Dr. Tim Hughes

Chief Academic Officer, LEAMS Education

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz

Senior advisor to Delos' Founder and CEO, International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) (Video Message)

Tigran Yepoyan

Chief of Unit of ICT in Health Education, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) (Virtual)

The panel will present the findings from a global EdTech innovations landscape analysis. UNHCR will draw on the collective experience of implementing Connected Education programmes in refugee-contexts, along with presenting the increasing digital divide. Participants will also be shown a newly launched wiki to map and crowdsource global EdTech innovations.

Speakers:

Jeremy Kirschbaum

CEO
Handshake

Jaqueline Strecker

Connected Education Lead
UNHCR

Joseph Andrews Omoluyi

Operations Director
Handshake

Data about learning and schooling has never been more vital. But many countries still lack the data needed to halt Learning Poverty. How can countries assess learning and use data and drive change? And how can the international community improve coordination and quality in global efforts to measure what students learn?

Speakers:

H.E. Dr. Dipu Moni

Minister of Education, Bangladesh

H.E. Tarek Shawky

Minister of Education & Technical Education
Egypt

Jaime Saavedra

Global Director Education
World Bank

Robert Jenkins

Director of Education
UNICEF

Stefania Giannini

Assistant Director-General
UNESCO

This session will share the experiment journeys & learnings of the ReimaginED Collective and the EdTech Consortium. ReimaginED will touch upon how it is building towards the region’s first-of-its-kind Edtech venture studio, whereas EdTech Consortium will share insights from their collective action framework for cross-sector collaboration that meets the educational needs of youth on the move.

Speakers:

Leila Toplic

Head of Emerging Technologies Initiative, NetHope

Juan Luis Vilchez

EMEA EdTech Lead at Amazon Web Service

George Vinton

CEO, Common Group

Emma Bonar

Senior Advisor Youth Development, Mercy Corps

Judith Flick

Programme Director, Can’t Wait to Learn/WarChild

Drawing on new insights and evidence from practice around the world, this session is aimed at education system leaders and funders who want to focus their efforts on transformation, not just reform. We will explore the three drivers for transformation (purpose, power and practice), consider how to apply them in your context, and generate ideas for tools that can support decision-making and action.

Speakers:

Caireen Goddard

Director, Big Change

Vishal Talreja

Co-Founder, Dream a Dream

Emily Liebtag

Senior Partner, Education Reimagined

Ryan Burgess

Global Lead, Porticus

For the 258 million children who were not enrolled in school before the pandemic – including those affected by emergencies – ensuring they can learn is even more important. This panel will highlight innovative practices of non-formal education and mental health and psycho-social support (MHPSS) being used to meet the rights of out of school children.

Speakers:

Emma Wagner

Head of Education Policy and Advocacy
Save the Children

Teresa Sordé Marti

Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Virtual)

Mairead King

Director
Arsenal Foundation

Dr. Iyad Zaqout

Head of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) unit Gaza, UNRWA

An intimate opportunity to hear from and ask questions of globally recognized EdTech CEOs who are operating highly impactful for-profit social enterprises and innovating to bring basic and higher education instruction to learners around the world.

Speakers:

Soonin Lee

CEO & Co-Founder, Enuma

Mike Feerick

Founder and CEO, Alison

Lak Chinta

CEO & Co-Founder, Attollo

Speaker:

Therese Curran

Regional Education Advisor, Norwegian Refugee Council

Teachers around the world have innovated to keep children learning during the pandemic. In this panel, a group of teacher leaders will share the mindset shifts these innovations have caused for them, which offer us all hope of creating a more equitable education system to support all children to shape a better world.

Speakers:

Emmanuel Kimuli

Teaching Fellow
Teach for Uganda

Khadija Bakhtiar

CEO
Teach for Pakistan

Oindrila Sanyal

Teacher
Teach for India (virtual)

Research shows that children learn better in a language they use daily. Many countries have experienced successful bilingual education and obtained encouraging results. Several of them decided to move scale. In this session, panelists will discuss features of bilingualism, the francophone experience, and how la Francophonie supports projects from different countries.

Speakers:

Ndeye Aby NDAW

Director of Elementary Education, Ministry of Education of Senegal

Séraphine BEN BOLIE

Deputy Director of Informal Education, Ministry of education of Cameroon

Mamadou Amadou LY

Director General, NGO ARED (Senegal)

Helikanto RAKOTOVOLOLONA

Director of Curriculam and Educational Research, Ministry of Education of Madagascar (virtual)

Moderated by J-PAL, this panel will share inspiring examples from leading organisations who are scaling innovative, evidence-based programs to millions of learners around the world. Panelists will reflect on the key levers which facilitate scale-up as well as challenges they grapple with along the way.

Speakers:

Boris Bulayev

CEO
Educate!

Devyani Pershad

Head, International Collaborations. Pratham (Virtual)

Girish Menon

CEO
Stir Education

Tom Venderbosch

Global Director of Programmes
VVOB

Laura Poswell

Executive Director, J-PAL Africa (Virtual)

Dr. Tahereh Pazouki

Lead Manager at Magrid (Virtual)

Innovation goes way beyond new and future technologies. This panel will focus on how to re-think mainstream education by integrating indigenous people's knowledge, models and learning systems into mainstream education.

Speakers:

Michael Running Wolf

CTO, Indigenous AI LLC

Makaela Jade

CEO
Indigital

Dr. Fanta Aw

Vice President, Undergrad Enrollment, Campus Life, Inclusive Excellence, Office of Campus Life

Prof. Tom Calma

Co-Chair
The Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation (ALNF) (Virtual)

The 2023 Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report will draw on the most recent evidence to critically examine the role of technology in the provision and quality of education. It will take stock of recent initiatives and examine the potential gains, risks and side effects for an expanded role of information and communication technologies in education. There are often bitter divisions in how the role of technology is viewed. These divisions are widening as the world of technology is evolving at breakneck speed. Join a consultation with the GEM Report’s Director Manos Antoninis to find out how the publication will explore these debates, suggest relevant evidence for the theme or new areas of research to be explored in the report.

Speakers:

Gwen Hines

Chief Executive, Save the Children UK

Mr. Tom Kaye

Global Country Engagement Lead, EdTech Hub

NRC’s flagship Better Learning Programme (BLP) is currently funded by Porticus and ECW. In response to growing Psychosocial Support (PSS) needs stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, NRC introduced BLP in 10 new countries, bringing its total coverage to 22. We will present its latest research in this masterclass, demonstrating the positive impact of BLP to promote the global rollout of this approach.

Speakers:

Camilla Lodi

PSS Global Head of Unit-Better Learning Programme, NRC

Gerhard Pulfer

Portfolio Manager, Education in Displacement, Porticus

Mona Ghaith

Teacher, Palestine

Zohour Idries

Student, Palestine

This session aims to take stock of both the achievements and the challenages in early childhood education from the prespective of governments, multilaterals, civil society and the private sector. This multisectorial dialogue now becomes very crucial especially amidst the ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic that caused significant disruptions across all sectors that are essential to the development of young children; where access to programs and services that promote learning and nurturing care became more scarce and limited.
*All speakers should be in the Speaker Ready Room at 14.45

Speakers:

H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg

Chief Executive Officer & Vice Chairman, Dubai Cares

H.E. Lubna Al Shamsi

Acting Executive Director at Emirates Schools Establishment, UAE

Dr. Yao Ydo

Director of UNESCO International Bureau of Education, based in Geneva

Dr. Omar Abdi

Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF

Mr. Ted Chaiban

UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

Speakers:

Bronwen Magrath

Global Programme Manager, Schools2030, Aga Khan Foundation (Virtual)

Nora Marketos

Co-Lead, Learning Schools. Jacobs Foundation (Virtual)

Shaibu Athuman

Schools2030 National Coordinator
Tanzania
Aga Khan Foundation

Lasse Leponiemi

Executive Director
HundrED

Celia Hsiao

Initiative Lead Systemic Impact
LEGO Foundation

Globally, 37% of children are taught in a language they do not speak at home. The policies that should be setting children up for success are stacking the odds against them. How can this be addressed? In this talk, we discuss some of the key practical solutions available.

Speaker:

Hanada Taha-Thomure

Professor of Arabic Language
Zayed University

Jaime Saavedra

Global Director, Education
World Bank Group

Amanda Devercelli

Senior Education Specialist
World Bank Group (Virtual)

Andreas Blom

Practice Manager, Education, Middle East & North Africa.
World Bank Group (Virtual)

This workshop session will explore how human connection and gamification can be integrated into digital learning through virtual mentoring, role playing and co-creation. Participants will have the opportunity to “play & connect” with another participant at the session through a fun and interactive experience.

Speakers:

Atish Gonsalves

Head of Education Innovation, IRC and Founder, Gamoteca

Melisa Zelaya

Head of Content, Gamoteca

In all professions as well as in top sports capability to focus has become more and more essential. Yet the modern world offers a growing numbers of distractions. Hintsa Performance shares the tools that help Formula 1 drivers be 100% focused and presents how holistic wellbeing is a key to higher performance and improved resilience.

Speakers:

Mikael Vainio

Executive Mentor and Managing Partner
Hintsa Performance Workshop

Pekka Pohjakallio

Executive Mentor and Director of Global Business Development
Hintsa Performance

Laudy Lahdo

General Manager Middle East. ServCorp

This session shifts the discourse on digital learning from why it is needed to how to implement at scale, focusing on system-wide change and reaching marginalised children. The story is told by program countries, and teachers, youth, and parents, working in shared value partnerships to deliver digital learning at scale.

Speakers:

H.E. Tarek Shawky

Minister of Education & Technical Education
Egypt

Robert Jenkins

Global Director
Education and Adolescent Development
UNICEF

Henrietta Fore

Executive Director
UNICEF (video message)

Hà Ánh Phượng

2020 Global Teacher Prize Top 10 Finalist, Huong Can High School (Video Message)

Niki Abrishamian

Chief of Education Zimbabwe
UNICEF (virtual)

Tajudeen Oyewale

Representative, Zimbabwe
UNICEF (virtual)

Olusegun Ogunsanya

CEO
Airtel Africa

Omar Abdi

Deputy Executive Director for Programmes, UNICEF (Virtual)

Zohra Yermeche

Head of Connect to Learn
Ericsson (video message)

In a post-pandemic era where internationl collaboration on frontiers of science and technology is crucial, this provocative session is about how to re-purpose Higher Education to solve global challenges while delivering teaching and research at a reasonable cost and creating future-fit graduates.

Speakers:

Nicolas Sadirac

Founder, Edu01 (Virtual)

Fady Michel

Co-Founder
Ergo Design

Ed Fidoe

Co-Founder of London Interdisciplinary School

Ben Nelson

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva Project

COVID-19 has worsened educational inequalities globally and highlighted the crucial role of parents and communities in child learning, education systems transformation, and recovery from learning loss. This panel session will highlight lessons learned for effectively leveraging the home and community learning environments to strengthen education access and delivery for children worldwide.

Speakers:

Ms. Daniela Martinez

Program Officer
Americas
Global Fund for Children

Pradeep Kumar

Associate Director of Programs and Partnerships, Worldreader

Rebecca Winthrop

Senior Fellow and Co-director
Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution (virtual)

Manushi Yadav

Head, Strategic Partnerships. Pratham (Virtual)

Keynote:

The Rt Hon Gordon Brown

former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education

Speakers:

H.E. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, Indonesia

H.E. Dr. Jakaya Kikwete

Former President of Tanzania and Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education

H.E. Dr. Dipu Moni

Minister of Education, Bangladesh

Kersti Kaljulaid

Former President of Estonia

Amir Abdulla

Deputy Executive Director, World Food Programme (Virtual)

Video Message:

Filippo Grandi

High-Commissioner, UNHCR

Speakers:

Alison Bellwood

Creator and Director of The World's Largest Lesson, Project Everyone and Representative of Generation Earthshot

Dr. Andrew Cunningham

Global Lead, Education, Aga Khan Foundation

Ryan Burgess

Global Lead for Primary and Secondary Education and TVET, Porticus

Dr. Daniel Baheta

Chief of Education, UNICEF Tanzania

There is a strong push for access to open learning for vulnerable communities in the Middle East, especially refugees, however, the open education ecosystem is currently being led by western institutions with few representations in the Arab world. To ensure momentum to promote and enable open access to learning across the Arab world grows and is inclusive, Community Jameel, the Abdullah Al Ghurair Foundation for Education, the Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at MIT and the American University of Beirut are bringing together leading voices from the higher education ecosystem to discuss challenges, learn from experiences and create a framework for action.

Speakers:

Sonia Ben Jaafar

CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Vijay Kumar

Executive Director, Abdul Latif Jameel World Education

Alan Shihadeh

Dean of the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. American University of Beirut

Dr. Hamad Mohamed Al Yahyaei

Assistant Undersecretary For Curriculum and Assessment Sector, Ministry of Education, UAE

Amna Fatani

Associate Director, Strategy, Community Jameel

This session focuses on increasing commitments for early childhood development in crisis, scaling up the financing, policies, and leadership needed to effectively support young children affected in humanitarian and crisis contexts. The discussion will unfold from different perspectives, from the voices of children to the opportunities presented to stakeholders to champion investments and priorities for the young ones in crisis.

Speakers:

Amanda Devercelli

Global Lead for Early Childhood Development, World Bank

Anita Anastacio

Initiative Lead The LEGO Foundation and MMA Steering Group Member

Joanie Cohen-Mitchell

Division Chief of the Center for Education, USAID

Jessica Hjarrand

Global Programme Manager, Education in Displacement, Early Childhood Development

This panel will bring together funders across public and private spaces, who are working to support evidence in education in emergencies. The panel will discuss the rationale for funding evidence for education in emergencies (EiE), approaches to funding research (funding mechanisms, partnerships, design), priorities and considerations, and impact of evidence on EiE policy and practice.

Speakers:

Christian Stoff

Chief, Monitoring, Evaluation and Global Reporting, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) (virtual)

Gerhard Pulfer

Portfolio Manager Education in Displacement, Porticus

Joseph Wales

Education Research Advisor, FCDO

Dr. Kuyok Abol Kuyok

Undersecretary of the South Sudan Ministry of General Education and Instruction

Catherine Gladwell

CEO of Refugee Education UK and Director at Jigsaw Consult

The Covid pandemic has forced the realisation that health interventions are a key contribution to educational attainment. In this session, three major non-governmental organisations share their real world experience of helping governments deliver health interventions through the education system.

Speakers:

Carmen Burbano

Director of School Feeding Division, World Food Programme

Carol Karutu

Vice President, Programs, The END Fund

Nick Virr

Head of Development – UK and Europe, The Fred Hollows Foundation (Virtual)

Sumrana Yasmin

Global Technical Lead: Eye Health URE, Sightsavers (Virtual)

Dr. Shariha Khalid Erichsen

Private Sector Core Action Group member of UHC2030, Managing Partner, Mission & Co

Beau Crowder

Consultant

Johannes Waltz

Head, Merck Schistosomiasis Elimination Program and Global Schistosomiasis Alliance, Merck Group (Virtual)

This session will focus on how outcomes funding delivers results in skills for employment programs. Results that truly matter to individuals and society—people who move into high-quality employment and stay there. Innovative financing creates a laser focus on results; it brings in new actors to the sector and ensures all parties are held accountable. It can also create strong incentives to assist traditionally underserved groups, such as women, refugee populations, and those with disabilities.

This session brings together a group of leaders including donors, impact investors, service providers, and government representatives at the forefront of this movement to hear first-hand about outcomes funding in skills for employment programs and how this delivers impact.

Speakers:

Andrew Baird

CEO, Education for Employment

Christian Braendli

Deputy Head Private Sector Development, Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)

Dhun Davar

Head of Social Finance and India Head, UBS Optimus Foundation

Mourad Bentahar

Director of Employment, Millenium Challenge Account (MCA),
Morocco

Governments are partnering with local non-profit education organizations in a range of ways to help them expand access to quality education. In Pakistan, The Citizens Foundation has built over 1,000 independent schools serving low-income children and now manages over 350 government schools under seven diverse PPP agreements. In Madhya Pradesh and Odisha in India, a coalition of non-state actors, facilitated and managed by Central Square Foundation, are working alongside state governments to strengthen the delivery of Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in state schools. PEAS is leveraging its experience operating schools to provide a wider range of system strengthening support to the Ugandan government. In this session, leaders from non-profit organisations from South Asia and Africa will share how they are working together with governments to sustainably transform systems at scale. They will explore the perceived benefits and challenges of these partnerships, and discuss how we might expand our understanding of PPPs beyond traditional subsidy or contract management models to broader “Partnerships for Public Purpose (PPP)

Speakers:

Zia Akhter Abbas

Executive Vice President, The Citizens Foundation

Shaveta Sharma-Kukreja

Managing Director, Central Square Foundation

Jenny Groot

Acting CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)

The INEE Minimum Standards represent a shared vision and concrete actions to support our collective goals for Education in Emergencies. This workshop will engage participants with the Standards, and provide a unique opportunity for diverse stakeholders to shape the Standards official update to ensure they rewire the future of education.

Speakers:

Annina Mattsson

Director of RewirEd

George Mogga Benjamin

Director General for Planning and Budgeting, Ministry of Education, South Sudan

Therese Curran

Regional Education Advisor, NRC

Josué Trillos

Head Teacher from Columbia

Nina Weisenhorn

Senior Advisor in Education in Crisis and Conflict, USAID (Virtual)

Explores best practices around Islamic Philanthropy, new avenues for collaboration and partnership to help scale impact and leverage resources effectively. It also examines prominent Islamic Philanthropy tools including Zakat, Sadaqah and Waqf, and how they can have a significant and sustainable impact on beneficiaries, especially in crisis or emergency environments.

Speakers:

Dr. Ahmed Al Haddad

Grand Mufti of Dubai

Khaled Khalifa

UNHCR Senior Advisor and Representative to GCC countries

Dr. Sonia Ben Jaafar

CEO, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Dana Jawad Amr

Programs Manager, Dubai Cares

Iqbal Khan

CEO, Fajr Captal

A conversation to explore what more equitable and efficient financing looks like in practice, with insights from countries as well as multilateral agencies, and evidence of what works for domestic financing.

Speakers:

H.E. Joyce Ndalichako

Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Tanzania

Andreas Schleicher

Director of Education and Skills, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

Manos Antoninis

Director, Global Education Monitoring Report

Thomas Poulsen

Senior Economist, World Bank

If we believe ‘Education is Everybody’s Business,’ then low-fee private schools also have a role to play in rewiring education and unlocking access for more children. This session will debate the financeability of different low-fee private schools operating models, considering the strengths and challenges facing each model to attract increasing incremental funding.

Speakers:

George Werner

Former Minister of Education, Liberia

Grace Matlhape

CEO, SmartStart Social Franchise

Jenny Groot

Acting CEO, Promoting Equality in African Schools (PEAS)

A discussion on how we utilize innovative and equitable financing to ensure secondary education systems, including alternative pathways, reach all young people and prepare them for work and life. We will feature the World Skills Clock that highlights new data of the extent of the global learning and skills crisis.

Speakers:

H.E. David Moinina Sengeh

Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education and Chief Innovation Officer for the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone

Robert Jenkins

Global Director, Education and Adolescent Development, UNICEF

Dr. Liesbet Steer

Director, Education Commission

Saddam Sayyaleh

Young Global Board member of Generation Unlimited (GenU), Founder of I Learn Jordan Initiative

Philip Cotton

Director of Human Capital Development, Mastercard Foundation

The future that awaits children and youth sitting in classrooms today will be characterized by unprecedented changes and technology permeating every corner of work and life. Rooted in its global experience and the global education sector's evidence, in this session Dubai Cares will unveil a global education ecosystem that holds the potential to empower children and youth to build a prosperous and sustainable future for all.

Speaker:

Dr. Shireen Nawal Chaya

Program Technical Advisor, Dubai Cares

To map out the opportunities & challenges that help EdTech investors make informed investments, this panel-cum-workshop session will begin with an overview of which sub-sectors have been the preferred ones across the globe (and why) in recent times and then go into a workshop session with the attendees, compromising investors, founders, operators and policy makers. Join us, if you’re keen on making/supporting EdTech investments that aren't just driving a financial return but also impact-oriented too.

Speakers:

Ash Kaluarachchi

CEO, Started Accelerator

Basem AbuDagga

CEO, Aster Global Partners

Mr. Anthony Bloome

Founder and Executive Director
mEducation Alliance

Dr. Gus Schmedlen

President and Chief Revenue Officer, Merlyn Mind

Eunji Kang

Strategic Design Lead, Radicle

Join this interactive dialogue where the world’s education leaders will provide passionate pitches on where future Education investments should be directed for Education in Emergencies and Crisis Contexts. Our pitch experts will try to convince you and our renown panel of Investors –on how to best invest for impact.

Speakers:

Annina Mattsson

Director of RewirEd

Euan Wilmhurst

Head of Advocacy &Communications, LEGO Foundation

Danah Dajani

Director of Programs and Partnerships, Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education

Mr. Andreas Papaconstantinou

Director, Neighbourhood and Middle East, Directorate General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, European Commission

Pitch Presenters:

Najeeba Wazefadost

Asia Pacific Network of Refugees

Lindsey Brown

New York University

Rita Bissoonauth

AUCIEFA

Lauren Lichtman

Learning Equality

Judith Flick

WarChild Holland

Education in Emergencies’ Geneva Hub’s representative

Why is meaningful connectivity - having sufficient data, reliable quality connection, and adequate devices - critical for quality education? This session will explore this question and spotlight countries that have mobilized resources during the current pandemic to show how important meaningful connectivity has been for education

Speakers:

H.E. Paula Ingabire

Minister of ICT and Innovation, Rwanda

Ali Cheema

Head of Government & Industry Relations Middle East & Africa, Ericsson

Boutheina Guermazi

Director of Digital Development, World Bank

Christopher Fabian

Co-Founder of UNICEF Innovation and Co-Lead of Giga

Osman Issah

Project Manager, Broadband and Internet Initiatives, Smart Africa

Global funds have transformed the delivery of EiE - connecting education stakeholders to deliver collaborative and rapid responses for children and youth affected by crises. Join us to discuss the benefits and challenges and how we can work together to ensure global funds continue to achieve maximum impact in communities.

Speakers:

Yona Nestel

Inclusive Quality Education Lead, Plan International Canada

Nasser Al-Faqih

Chief Strategic Partnerships, Education Cannot Wait (ECW)

Margarita Focas Licht

Manager, Effective Partnerships, Global Partnership for Education (GPE)

Asif Saleh

Executive Director, BRAC

We are facing an unprecedented learning crisis, and yet too often we limit ourselves to business-as-usual thinking. UNESCO estimated a shortage of 69 million teachers even before Covid. How can the education sector draw inspiration from global health and the community healthcare worker model to serve the hardest-to-reach cost-effectively?

Speakers:

George K. Werner

Former Minister of Education, Liberia, Executive Committee Member, Education Outcomes Fund

Kathleen Oosthuizen

Strategy and Impact Lead, Community Health (Virtual)

Manushi Yadav

Head of Strategic Partnerships, Pratham Education Foundation, add (Virtual)

This event will support the launch of the Refugee Connected Education Challenge, which will work with governments and education actors to make strong commitments to help narrow the growing digital divide faced by displaced learners. We need to ensure that schools that host refugees, and forcibly displaced students, are prioritized and meaningfully included in global and national digital education and connectivity efforts.

Speakers:

H.E. Dr. Tariq Al Gurg

CEO and Vice-Chairman, Dubai Cares

Khaled Khalifa

UNHCR's Senior Representative to the GCC Countries

Jessy Inga

Refugee Digital Inclusion Advocate

Rebecca Telford

UNHCR Chief of Education

Yasmine Sherif

Director, Education Cannot Wait

How difficult will it be for the world’s second-largest education system to change course? India has long recognized the fundamental importance of education to securing its future. Fifty years ago, the country’s National Education Commission wrote: “The destiny of India is now being shaped in her classrooms...” But for years, successive governments have faced systemic and seemingly unsolvable issues on education – among them poorly performing teacher-training institutions, a lack of adequate physical and digital infrastructure and the fact that Indian children spend significantly less time in school on average than their peers in other major emerging economies such as China and Brazil.

India’s national government has recently launched a bold new education policy, which places significant emphasis on digital technology and pedagogical innovation. To deliver, education authorities across the country are looking for innovative and disruptive ideas from the private and philanthropic sectors, as well as from a new generation of tech-literate teachers and public officials. In this session, hear from a range of leaders across different sectors who believe that disrupting India’s education system could deliver major gains in learning.

Keynote:

Nicholas Piachaud

Head of Analysis and Advocacy, Varkey Foundation

Speakers:

Faizal Kottikollon

Founder and Chairman, KEF Holdings

Olivier Crespin

CEO and Co-Founder, Zand

Abha Thorat

Executive Director (Social Finance), British Asian Trust (Virtual)

Dr. Vinod Rao

Principal Secretary (Primary and Secondary Education), Government of Gujarat, India

Ranjit Disale

Indian teacher, 2020 Global Teacher Prize Winner

The Global Launch of a joint innovative finance approach between the Global Partnership for Education and Arab Coordination Group. The approach aims to avails US$ 500 million in funding for education from the Arab Coordination Group of development finance institutions, coordinated and co-lead by the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB).

Keynote:

H.E. Dr. Jakaya Kikwete

Former President of Tanzania and Chair of the Board of Directors, Global Partnership for Education

Amer Bukvic

Director General in Charge of Products Development and Partnerships, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Speakers:

H.E. Joyce Ndalichako

Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Vocational Training, Tanzania

H.E. Mambury Njie

Minister of Finance & Economic Affairs, The Gambia

H.E. Mr. Faiziddin Qahhorzoda

Minister of Finance, Tajikistan

H.E. Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Minister of Finance, Indonesia

H.E. Abdullahi Abukar Haji

Federal Minister of Education, Culture and Higher, Somalia Education

H.E. Imomzoda Muhammdyusuf Saydali

Minister of Education and Science, Tajikistan

Margarita Focas Licht

Manager, Partnerships, GPE

Dr. Tarek Shawky

Minister of Education and Technical Education, Egypt

Samaher AlShallali

General Director of Policies and Partnerships Directorate, Saudi Fund for Development

Amer Bukvic

Director General in Charge of Products Development and Partnerships, Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)

Maryjacob Okwuosa

Global Partnership for Education Youth Leader, Nigeria

May AlQabandi

First International Relations Specialist, Kuwait Fund For Arab Economic Developement

In this session, we will explore the effective tools, mechanisms, and platforms that are needed to create the context for effective and impactful collaboration at scale. This session will also showcase the experimental journey & learnings from the collaborations initiated by 2 diverse groups of organizations in the Sandbox.

Speakers:

Eloise Haylor

Network & System Change Lead, Big Change

Annie Kidder

Executive Director, People for Education

Visha Taljera

Co-Founder Dream a Dream, India

Leonora Dowley

Head of Partnerships, #LearningPlanet

With limited time and funding to meet the scale of our global learning crisis, investments must be not only effective, but cost-effective. Yet, cost and cost-effectiveness studies are rare, and even more rarely made public. This panel will explore tools and research to improve the efficiency of global education investments.

Speakers:

Dayoung Lee

Associate Partner, Dalberg Advisors

Milena Castellnou

CEO, Education Outcomes Fund

Emily Gustafsson-Wright

Senior Fellow Centre for Universal Education, The Brookings Institution

Speakers:

Kersti Kaljulaid

Former President of Estonia

Education Development Trust invites you to a candid discussion with senior education civil servants from the UK and Kenya and trusted advisers to unpack ‘how’ they see the unprecedented global financial commitments to girls’ education delivering value for money and impact for marginalised girls.

Speakers:

Alicia Herbert

OBE, Director of the Education, Gender and Equality Directorate (EdGE) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom

Ruth Kagia

Deputy Chief of Staff for the Policy and Strategy Office of the President of Kenya

Roland Hancock

Partner, Education, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Rosa Muraya

Deputy Director for the Girls Education Challenge (GEC), Wasichana Wetu Wafaulu (WWW), Kenya

Digital media is a powerful influencer of social change as a tool for communications and a channel for the wide dissemination of information and knowledge. The rise of digital media has added new complexity to the relationship between schools and media. This event will explore the important role of education in fostering the skills needed to critically examine the digital stories and information that we consume daily. It will also explore the question of how media sources, social media corporations, and educational institutions can collaborate more effectively to ensure that information literacy is central to education – towards the creation of more just, open societies built on accurate information. We all have important roles to play in fostering the competencies needed to decode digital media. This event highlights the role of education systems and global media corporations in teaching the skills needed to analyse the many types of stories that we consume daily in our increasingly digitised world.

Speakers:

H.E. Mona Ghanem Al Marri

Director General of the Government of Dubai Media Officee

Niamh Spelman

General Manager of the Solutions Sales Unit, Microsoft

Michail Bletsas

Director of Computing and Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab

Mikaela Jade

CEO and Founder, Indigital

Derek Murray Wyatt

Former Member of Parliament, United Kingdom

Covid-19 shuttered schools for over 1.6 billion children at the height of the pandemic. Covid-caused school closures threaten to exacerbate a pre-existing “learning crisis” where many students were in school but learning very little even pre-pandemic. Analysis of past long-term school closures shows that large, and potentially permanent learning losses can result. Some pre-existing learning inequities have also increased due to lack of access to technology for distance learning by some groups, and other causes. As schools are reopening, and often working in an environment of tight budgets, making smart education policy decisions that are based on evidence and cost-effectiveness is more important than ever for governments. Equally, governments are trying to explore innovative solutions that will allow students not just to catch up but also thrive and reach their full potential. The forthcoming paper by the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP https://rb.gy/diq12c) advises how education policy makers and funders of education programs can take advantage of what we know about cost-effective education solutions combined with additional evidence gathered during COVID to develop recommendations with new and innovative evidence-based solutions. The video will provide a short introduction to the forthcoming paper.

Speakers:

Rachel Glennerster

Associate Professor, University of Chicago

Kwame Akyeampong

Professor of International Education and Development, Open University

Video:

The main goal of this event is to engage audience in a discussion on the effective ways to support children’s learning and development in conflict- and crisis-affected contexts. Based on actionable evidence generated from the three humanitarian educational programming contexts (with Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, Boko Haram-affected children in Niger, and children living through multiple and protracted crises in Sierra Leone)—as a part of a larger 3EA initiative and funded by Dubai Cares E-Cubed Research Envelope, three short and engaging TED-talk-style presentations will be given by the researchers at Global TIES for Children. All presentations will be pre-recoded. The proposed topics include: a. A journey into a day of a refugee child: Risks, struggles, and hope b. Path to recovery and resilience: How to support refugee children’s needs, challenges, and pathways for learning and thriving c. Eyes on the process—beyond access: Role of teachers and implementation of education programming and lessons for the future.

Speakers:

Douha Boulares, MPA

Communication Associate, NYU

Ha Yeon Kim, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, NYU

Lindsay Brown, Ph.D.

Senior Research Scientist, NYU

Video:

Governments are increasingly recognising the vital need for young people with the skills to succeed in a rapidly changing world of work. Yet, too often good policies at the national level don’t lead to change at the local level for young people. The missing link is low-cost, high-impact programmes which can translate policy ambitions into everyday practice in schools. We have done it, know what works, and have the evidence! The session introduces our School Enterprise Challenge programme describing how: - A program focused on Entrepreneurship and Soft Skills can produce impressive academic results - increasing by four times the number of students achieving the highest grades in STEM - A one-year experiential program can double young people’s income on leaving school, - An approach works from the toughest Ugandan refugee camps to elite Indian private schools and has been incorporated into education systems It is an injustice that not every young person leaves education equipped with skills for success in work and life. A growing number of governments recognise the School Enterprise Challenge programme as an effective and cost-effective way to bridge the policy-practice divide - giving teachers a practical approach for preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, leaders and changemakers to thrive, whatever future they face.

Speaker:

Nik Kafka

Founder and CEO, Teach A Man to Fish

Video:

In this session, we will be highlighting the critical importance of providing accessible, inclusive education to all and what can be done to improve access. During the session, we will hear from our CEO, Katie Fowler and disability inclusion experts in the field on why inclusivity should be at the forefront of conversations as we fight for education for all. We will emphasise the importance of education equity, rather than equality, recognising that a lot more resources need to be invested in the most vulnerable children in order to attain the global goal of providing education access to all children. Girls, street connected children, children in emergency settings, children with disabilities are among the most vulnerable and are still a long way behind in terms of education access and quality. How are their needs considered when it comes through classroom teaching and learning? Furthermore, the protracted COVID 19 crisis has made education inequality and the digital divide more apparent. In the session, we will draw on our own experiences from past and current projects in address these issues.

Speakers:

Katie Fowler

Co-CEO, Chance for Childhood

Félicien Turatsinze

Programme Manager and Disability and Inclusion Advisor, Chance for Childhood

Video:

Amid the greatest educational crisis in a century, ambitious partnerships that align diverse stakeholders play a key role in creating positive change at scale. In this session, global NGO Room to Read will share three specific examples of public-private partnerships they have created and the insights they have gained along the way. Room to Read will discuss how to think creatively when developing partnerships, how to engage private donors in these initiatives and how to replicate this work to achieve change at scale.

Speaker:

Dr. Geetha Murali

CEO of Room to Read

Video:

Diversity of Diversity: The Power of Children’s Storybooks in Fostering Inclusive Communities Books have the power to spark awareness about the broad spectrum of diversity, intersectionality of identities, and demonstrate through characters and story development how to bridge divides and build a more inclusive, unifying and empathetic world. This session will be solutions focused by sharing Room to Read’s unique global expertise working with local authors, illustrators, publishers, and printers to develop books quickly at high-quality to meet specific community needs, irrespective of profitability, tackling the lack of diversity and accessibility to high-quality children’s books in low-income communities.

Speakers:

Kerri Thomsen

Associate Director of Literacy, Room to Read

Titus Kazungu

Associate Director for Literacy Programs in Africa, Room to Read

Video:

Remote modalities are an important but novel tool for early childhood development service providers in settings affected by conflict or crisis. As a sector, we are building the evidence base for reach, scale, impact, and equity as we design and implement these programs. In this webinar, researchers and practitioners from BRAC, Sesame Workshop, the IRC, and the University of Virginia provided perspectives on the state of the evidence to date. The webinar closed with a panel discussion on what steps implementers and researchers in the sector could take in order to improve the quality, reach, and equity of early childhood services for children and families on the move.

Speakers:

Anjuli Shivshanker

Senior Director, Program Monitoring and Evaluation, International Impact, Sesame Workshop

Carolina Casas

Regional Director of Education and Outreach for Latin America, Sesame Workshop

Diala Hajal

Senior Research Officer, International Rescue Committee

Lina Torossian

Senior Research, Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning Manager, International Rescue Committee

Duja Michael

Research Scientist, NYU Global TIES for Children

Sakila Yasmin

Research Lead and Full-Time Faculty, BRAC Institute of Educational Development

Lucy Bassett

Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia and co-director of Humanitarian Collaborative

Video:

https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/6385/summit

The UK Pavilion is delighted to invite you to attend its education-focused summit day, called ‘In the Future… How will we Learn?’ on Saturday 11th December. Hosted at the UK Pavilion, this exciting day of events will see the likes of Professor Sir Steve Smith, UK Government International Education Champion; Antara Ganguli, Head of United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative and Helen Grant, UK Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Girls’ Education discuss some of the most pressing themes facing global education. Panel discussions will include The future of Higher education; Teaching Entrepreneurship; Why global girls’ education matters and Green Skills. 'How Will We Learn?' immediately precedes the RewirEd summit so we would wholeheartedly encourage you to engage with both these programmes.

Event page (incl registration): https://swisspavilion.org/ethafa-bridge-the-gender-gap-in-tech-education/

Ethafa is the Arabic word for STEAM – Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math. The Ethafa project was started to rethink how to bridge the gap in tech education and how to engage more Arabic girls in STEAM and technology disciplines. It is a project which originates from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI). Ethafa does so through STEAMMIAN kits, friendly robots. Each one features different circuits and sensors. Students assemble these fictional characters, then learn by playing and solving simple challenges in small teams. Join us for a workshop to discover this unique approach.

Event page (incl registration): https://swisspavilion.org/future-of-vocational-education/

Considering the great changes brought about by the fourth industrial revolution, the future of work seems highly uncertain and unpredictable in many sectors. To adress this topic, the Swiss Pavilion will give insights into the role of TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training) in keeping up with fast changing working environments. More specifically, the mission is to elaborate on how vocational education can provide youth with flexible learning skills and a mindset adapted to lifelong learning.