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[News] The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) has advised against all travel to Israel amid an escalation in the country’s military activity with Iran. The advice, which covers Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, means travel insurance could be invalidated if individuals do not follow it. It comes as missiles have been launched by both countries in recent days…

he World Bank is taking a practical and collaborative approach to start the story for more children and ensure they grow up as readers and learners. The World Bank’s Literacy Policy Package and Early Grade Reading Rainbow are among the many evidence-based resources that have been developed to support literacy for all.

Between FY19-FY23, World Bank Group-supported educational programs benefited close to 500 million students globally, including 53 million in countries affected by fragility and conflict.

Through the Read@Home initiative, the World Bank is working with governments and other partners in 18 countries so far to expand access to quality reading and learning materials, reduce the cost of procuring and distributing books, and support parents and caregivers from the most vulnerable households to engage with their children’s learning.

In Senegal, for example, Read@Home is supporting the government to distribute books in Arabic, French, and seven Senegalese languages alongside support for parents and caregivers to reach over 2 million children aged zero to six (covering 50 percent of children below the age of six across the country).

In North Macedonia, Read@Home supported government efforts to boost children’s reading assessment scores in the early grades, reaching the poorest 10 percent of families with storybooks and activities to encourage reading at home.

Read@Home launched the Early Learning Resource Network to enable governments and partners to find and use open licensed books and instructional materials in multiple languages, and provide tools and guidance to support every stage of the book development and distribution process.

In 2020, the World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, FCDO, UNICEF, and USAID launched the Accelerator Program which coordinates efforts across the partners to ensure that the countries in the Program are showing improvements in foundational skills at scale over the next three to five years.  The Accelerator Program acknowledges a global cohort of countries or sub-national entities that 1) demonstrate strong political and financial commitment to improved learning, 2) are willing to measure and monitor learning outcomes, and 3) have an investment plan to reduce learning poverty. 

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  Further to a request by the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the World Bank, and UNICEF have agreed to repurpose grant funding to support productivity allowance payments on an exceptional basis for the academic year 2022-2023 to eligible teachers and school personnel suffering from the severe economic and financial crisis in Lebanon. The Teachers’ Productivity Allowance Program, announced by the Minister of Education and Higher Education (MEHE; Circular 147/م/ 2023), will support eligible public-school teachers and school personnel who attend schools according to the attendance schedule published in the MEHE’s Circular 147/م/ 2023 on March 2, 2023, and deliver lessons in the first and second school shifts.  

Earth Day Ahliah School in the Lebanon. Photo by EarthDayPictures. Flickr.   Further donor financing is contingent upon three commitments from the Government of Lebanon: (i) Verification that only eligible personnel receive the allowance; (ii) Government of Lebanon contributes financing to the program, and (iii) Government of Lebanon implements efficiency measures that will allow the government to self-finance personnel adequately and timely in the next school year. To ensure that only eligible public-school teachers and school personnel benefit from these allowances, MEHE has established risk mitigation measures that must be put fully in place. For that purpose, MEHE, the Regional Education Offices, and school principals must ensure that teachers and personnel information is entered accurately and timely into the Schools Information Management System (SIMS), which includes the teacher’s general information, teaching days and hours (for contractual teachers).  

A Lebanese teacher talks to two Syrian refugee girls at an information session about gender-based violence and early marriage in southern Lebanon. Photo by DFID - UK. Flickr.   A Third-Party Monitoring Agency has also been commissioned by MEHE to verify teachers’ attendance and delivery of lessons and confirm that these allowances are being provided only to eligible teachers and school personnel. In early March 2023, a first payment of the productivity allowances to teachers for the month of October 2022 was released on a retroactive basis from the grant financing. We now urge the Government of Lebanon to prioritise the transfer of the allocated advance from the treasury (Decree number 11046 issued by the Council of Ministers on 15/02/2023), so the productivity allowance payments can continue until the end of the school year to ensure that schools remain open, and children have access to learning.  

FCDO Master’s Scholarships for International Students in the Commonwealth

The Commonwealth Master’s Scholarships are funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) under six CSC development topics. For the academic year 2023–2024, the program will be offered to assist international students who cannot afford to study in the UK. All Commonwealth applicants who wish to enroll in a full-time taught master’s program at a UK university and are from low-…

The world is in a real shock to see that 70 per cent of children below ten years of age are unable to read and understand a simple text in the developing world, which shows that “learning Poverty” has only deepened. Learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-yearolds unable to understand a simple written text, said the…

The world is in a real shock to see that 70 per cent of children below ten years of age are unable to read and understand a simple text in the developing world, which shows that “learning Poverty” has only deepened. Learning poverty has increased by a third in low- and middle-income countries, with an estimated 70 per cent of 10-yearolds unable to understand a simple written text, said the…