Yasmine Sherif - Africa's Forgotten Crisis: Global Education, COVID-19, and the Climate Emergency

In the fifth event of the IIEA’s Development Matters lecture series, which is supported by Irish Aid, Yasmine Sherif, Director of Education Cannot Wait – a global fund for education in emergencies - discusses her vision of how to mitigate the impact of both the climate emergency and pandemics on the global education crisis. She focuses her remarks on developments in sub-Saharan Africa where the consequences of climate change are most pronounced and where the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage. Ms Sherif highlights the ways in which Education Cannot Wait is working to ensure young children, especially young girls, can survive and thrive. She outlines how countries like Ireland can help in this endeavour. About the Speaker: Yasmine Sherif is the Director of Education Cannot Wait, a global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crisis, established at the World Humanitarian Summit and hosted by UNICEF. A human rights lawyer with 30 years of experience in international affairs, Ms Sherif joined the United Nations in 1988 and served in New York, Geneva, and in crisis-affected countries in Africa, Asia, Balkans, and the Middle East.