EDUCATION

Education is Transformational in communities.

When children and youth are prepared to go to school, learn, and gain the skills they need for life and work, they are able to build more hopeful and prosperous futures for themselves, their families, communities, and countries. Unfortunately, as a result of terror attacks, education systems in Somalia have been devastated, and many schools have remained closed while children, youth, teachers, and families face even greater challenges.

Emerge Global remains committed to working with different partners in Somalia to ensure that learners and communities stay safe and continue to learn despite technical challenges.

Emerge Global is planning to help, learners, and communities stay safe and continue to learn during the pandemic and challenging situations such as drought, floods and insecurity.

Our Focus

Emerge Global has education experts who guides educational activities and work overall across the regions of Somalia. The Strategy works to achieve a community where education systems in different regions enable all individuals to acquire the education and skills needed to be productive members of society.

Emerge Global has an education policy which aims to achieve sustained, measurable improvements in learning outcomes and skills development. The principles of the policy are:

• Prioritize country-focus and ownership
• Focus and concentrate investments on measurably and sustainably improving learning and educational outcomes
• Strengthen systems and develop capacity in local institutions
• Work in partnership and leverage resources
• Drive decision-making and investments using evidence and data
• Promote equity and inclusion

The priorities of the policy are:

• Children and youth, particularly the most marginalized and vulnerable, have increased access to quality education.
• Children and youth gain literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills that are critical to future learning.
• Youth gain the skills they need to lead productive lives, gain employment, and positively contribute to society.
• Higher education institutions have the capacity to be central actors in development.

Results and Progress

Emerge Global recognizes that achieving sustainable solutions to global challenges in education and beyond requires us to work in close collaboration with government, partners of all sizes, citizens and the wider development community. In the next five years Emerge Global plans and projects to achieve the following:

• Provide more than 100000 children and youth in Somalia with access to education
• Train more than 5,000 education officials, administrators, and teachers
• Assist more than 100 public and private schools at the pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels
• Provided more than 10 higher education institutions with capacity development support