Tech for education, humanitarian response and refugee support. Chief @UNHCR_Education. Copenhagen, Oxford, Nairobi. All views my own.

Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined October 2011
Pleased to meet with Prof. Barbara Moser-Mercer of the African Higher Education in Emergencies Network. We discussed how to further increase access of refugee youth to higher education. Important work ahead towards the #15by30 agenda.
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Today, a delegation from @ProFuturo_ visited Mahama refugee camp and toured various educational facilities. They commended the harmonious way students from both refugee and host communities study together, showcasing refugee integration and assistance provided to them.
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Oh @British_Airways you've cancelled my mum's flight tomorrow, she's locked out of the online booking and we've called 5 times and get told nobody is available and disconnected. Merry Christmas 🤦🏼‍♀️
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🔴Watch live from #GRF2023 ! #ECW's @YasmineSherif1, @Dev_Meeja, @LEGOFoundation, @UnicefEducation & more come together at the High-Level Event: 'Securing Sustainable Futures: Towards a Shared Responsibility to Uphold the Right to #Education' 💻us02web.zoom.us/j/8517898002…
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Wonderful session thank you @malik_sajjad and the whole @UNHCR_Education team with the #GRFEducationAlliance ✨
Very encouraged to see active engagement of more than 500 participants at the @Refugees #GRF2023 Education Campus, realizing the Global Compact on Refugees vision for education through local and global action. Partners making concrete pledges to support refugee education. 🙏
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#EducationCampus opening: Tory Clawson delivers insights into @save_children's work on #refugees education & #GRF2023. She concludes with a powerful message from a refugee boy in Iraq: "Leaders, let's work together to make sure every child has a good school & a happy life." 📚✨
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“12 million girls marry before the age of 18 every year.“ Hamida Jahamah from @PlanInterJordan is speaking about the importance of ensuring young girls have access to education at the Global Refugee Forum’s Education Campus! #GlobalRefugeeForum #EducationCampus
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Live from #GRF's digital technologies & connected education session @eddiedutton presents some trends in digital learning opportunities for forcibly displaced learners, based on an upcoming report from @Refugees @EduCannotWait & @EiEGenevaHub 🔜Look out for the report in Q1 2024
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Hon Awut Deng Acuil, the Minister of General Education and Instruction met Ms Laura Frigenti, the CEO of GPE, at the sideline of the UN SDG Summit. The Minister updated the GPE leadership of the progress. The meeting discussed strengthening the partnership.
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Hon Awut Deng Acuil, the Minister of General Education and Instruction, met Mr Raouf Mazou, the Assistant Commissioner for UNCHR on the sideline of the UNGA's SDG summit. Both discussed current influx of refugees and returnees into the country and reiterated education support.
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Great insights from ⁦@UNHCRuganda⁩ and ⁦@IIEP_UNESCO⁩ as to how educational planning can support #teachers of #refugees Planning is an essential part of #inclusion and system reform 🌟 iiep.unesco.org/en/uganda-ho…
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Thinking of #sudan with a reminder of how children are impacted by war, and how it can always - devastatingly - be closer than we imagine to family, friends, normalcy and rights.
My friend's 11 year daughter, Sophia, has drawn this it sums up what it is like to be caught in the middle of war. #Sudan
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DYK: #ECW funds @HEAccelerator, a #UNHCR-led program supporting promising humanitarian #education innovations transition from pilots➡️programs that can operate at scale. Register for #webinar on lessons learnt from last 7⃣years of #HEA➡️ bit.ly/401wLyZ @UNHCR_Education
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🎧Tune in to the 🆕episode of #PlanED by @IIEP_UNESCO, where I speak about @UNHCR_Education and how and why refugee learners must be included in national education systems: at.iiep.unesco.org/podcast @malik_sajjad @RaoufMazou @EduCannotWait @FCDOEducation @GPforEducation #GRF
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Access to education by children and youth 🌎 in crises areas remains a major issue . Thank you 🇪🇺partners, @Refugees, @Dev_Meeja, @UNHCR_Education, @EU_Partnerships, @EduCannotWait, @YasmineSherif1 for stepping up education in emergencies in the nexus perspective #EIE2023
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"#ECW works across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus to ensure no child is left behind. This translates into joint programming, development & assessment. We deliver together. That is the standard we're sitting w/our partners."~@YasmineSherif1 at @EU_echo Conference on #EiE
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#ECW is proud to share learning from @HEAccelerator with @UNHCR_Education, resulting in #education initiatives for children in crises! Learn more about the #HEA & access the 🆕 learning paper on financing scale in #EiE innovations: bit.ly/3D3Bo2F #222MillionDreams✨📚
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Dr Becky Telford retweeted
Passionate about supporting #refugee #education? 👇Great opportunity to join our team in Mauritania 🇲🇷 as Education Officer @UNHCR_Education @UNHCRWestAfrica
☑️Demonstrated work experience in #educational programmes? ☑️Bachelor's degree in Education or Social Sciences? ☑️Fluent in #French? @Refugees in #Mauritania seeks a UN Volunteer Associate Education Officer. Apply by 23 January: bit.ly/3k9ZUsc
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Dr Becky Telford retweeted
📣The more disfranchised refugees feel impacts their identify and fundamental right to hope. Education is a way we can act! This network is The 🌎Global Refugee Compact in action. #15by30 @FilippoGrandi @RefugeeEdu @EAA_Foundation @UNHCR_Education – at Rome, Lazio
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