Beyond Words - Yasmine Sherif

WHAT I'VE LEARNT

Yasmine Sherif, the Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the United Nation’s global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises – she is spearheading a global movement that delivers education to those left furthest behind in crisis settings.

Under her leadership, in just a few short years, ECW has mobilized over US$1.5 billion dollars, and reached more than 7 million crisis-affected children with holistic, quality education – putting foundational learning outcomes, such as literacy, at the center of our mission.

Yasmine is a human rights lawyer with 30 years of experience with the UN working in war zones and crises. She works at ECW’s HQ in NY and regularly conducts missions to the field to take stock of needs and ECW’s responses in crisis-affected countries.

As a global advocate for the right to education, a thought-leader in her sector and global advocate, Ms. Sherif is regularly featured in the media. She is the author of the book, “The Case for Humanity: An Extraordinary Session.”

In 2020 she was awarded the Global Educator Award in the United States, and in 2022 she received on behalf of Education Cannot Wait, the prestigious Mother Teresa Award.

Background on Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
ECW was created at the World Humanitarian Summit in 2016 to reposition education in emergencies at the top of the international agenda, under the leadership of the ECW Chair and UN Special Envoy for Global Education, the RT Gordon Brown.

As a global UN fund, ECW works to generate greater shared political, operational and financial commitment to meet the educational needs of the millions of children and adolescents affected by crises, with a focus on more agile, connected and faster response that spans the humanitarian-development continuum to lay the ground for sustainable education systems.

When ECW was launched in 2016, 75 million children and youth did not have access to the safety, protection, hope and opportunity of an education due to crises worldwide. That number has spiked to well over 222 million, according to a new study released by ECW last year.
With COVID-19, the crisis in Ukraine, rises in climate-change related displacement, and other wars and conflicts raging across the globe, this number is expected to continue to rise.

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