Education
Climate change has both direct and indirect impacts on education. Direct impacts include floods causing infrastructure damages and possible injury that can disrupt the learning process for a long time. Indirect impacts manifest through disruption of food, nutrition and water security.
Climate variability leads to poor harvests and food scarcity, which negatively impact educational attainment, decrease the accessibility of clean drinking water, jeopardise sanitation, and increase the prevalence of illnesses like malaria and diarrhoea, which can cause absence and even the removal of children from school. Hence urgent actions are needed to ‘climate-proof’ the education sector and to accelerate climate-resilient and climate-smart education investments and actions.
What We Do
- Support for curriculum reviews and mainstreaming of climate change and adaptation planning into the school curriculums
- Support for efforts to invest in climate-proofing of school infrastructures, including link roads and bridges, and the establishment of mobile schools and health centres near water points during drought emergencies to cater for pastoralists, migrants and IDP children
- Support for enhancing water access in schools and nearby communities through the development of solar-powered boreholes
- Support for embedding disaster risk management strategies in the education sectors to reduce the continuous disruption of learning
Contact Us
Phone Number:
(+252) 617 963 284
icaep@igad.int
Location:
KM5, Afgoye Road, Mogadishu, Somalia
Sat – Thurs: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
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Contact Us
Phone Number:
(+252) 617 963 284
icaep@igad.int
Location:
KM5, Afgoye Road, Mogadishu, Somalia
Sat – Thurs: 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Organization
Useful Links
News & Updates
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