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A group of Syrian children seen in a street in Beirut, Lebanon, on November 24, 2021. On November 23 UNICEF realesed the report Surviving without the basics; the ever-worsening impact of Lebanons crisis on children. The report is based on two surveys conducted by UNICEF in April 2021 and again in October 2021 among the same families.
The November 22 report shows an increase in the number of children going hungry, having to work to support their family, not going to school and and not getting the health care they need. The figures show a dramatic deterioration of living conditions over six months, with more than half of families having at least one child who skipped a meal in September, as compared with about 37 per cent in April. More than 30 per cent of surveyed families reported cuts on education expenses (up from 26 per cent in April). Almost 12 per cent of families who participated in UNICEFs survey sent children to work in September, as compared with close to 9 per cent in April. The crisis is also having a severe impact on childrens health. Almost 34 per cent of children who required primary health care did not receive it, up from 28 per cent in April. The figures are even starker for Syrian refugee families, with almost 9 out of 10 living in extreme poverty.

(Photo by Elisa Gestri/Sipa USA)
No Use Germany.

Education Plus Development

Connecting schools and communities can restore hope in the possibility of change in Lebanon

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Chris Castro

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

U.S. President Joe Biden convenes a virtual summit with leaders from democratic nations at the State Department's Summit for Democracy, at the White House, in Washington, U.S. December 9, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis

FixGov

The Biden Democracy Summit: Will it actually work?

Norman Eisen, Andrew Kenealy, and Mario Picon

Tuesday, December 21, 2021

primary school student in Sierra Leone classroom

Education Plus Development

Radical inclusion means teaching children in a language they understand 

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Carolyn Kousky

La Paz, Bolivia.- Authorities distribute food in La Paz, Bolivia on November 3, 2020. The United Nations (UN) warned this Tuesday (3) that the COVID-19 crisis in Bolivia threatens the sustainability of the achievements of the last decade, exposing the middle class to slipping back into poverty.

Future Development

Eliciting welfare information from both the tails and the middle of income distributions

Kimberly Blair Bolch and Luis F. Lopez-Calva

Friday, November 19, 2021

People swim in the Celeste river waterfall at Tenorio Volcano National Park in Upala March 18, 2008. The blue color of the lagoon, formed from chemical reactions of calcium carbonate and sulfur, is surrounded by amazing rainforest of 12,819 hectares of this park. The Celeste river carries its color for a distance of 36 km (22 miles). REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate (COSTA RICA) - RTR1YHOD

Future Development

Industrial policies versus public goods to spur growth

Thursday, June 29, 2017

TechStream

Better understanding of data lifecycles can reduce digital harms

Jordan Famularo

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

People in silhouette look at their mobile phones with cables from an internet switching station projected in the background.

TechStream

The consequences of a fragmenting, less global internet

Nick Merrill and Konstantinos Komaitis

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Education systems transformation symposium

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM EST

A United States Passport with Covid-19 Vaccination Record Card

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 24: Managing Privacy, Equity, and Access in COVID Vaccine Passports

Nicol Turner Lee

Monday, July 26, 2021

Josh Carpenter

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

People light candles as they pay their respects to late former Czech President Vaclav Havel at Wenceslas Square in Prague December 22, 2011. Havel, an anti-Communist playwright who became Czech president and a worldwide symbol of peace and freedom after leading the bloodless "Velvet Revolution", died at the age of 75 on Sunday. His funeral mass will be held on Friday in the presence of dignitaries from around the world. REUTERS/David W Cerny (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: OBITUARY POLITICS)

Order from Chaos

Large-scale political unrest is unlikely, but not impossible

September 26, 2020

GERMANY, Hamburg, peaceful protest rally on St. Pauli against G-20 summit GERMANY, Hamburg, protest rally on St. Pauli against G-20 summit in july 2017 *** DEUTSCHLAND, Hamburg, St. Pauli, Protest Demo gegen G20 Gipfel und Klimawandel Hamburg Germany No Use Switzerland. No Use Germany. No Use Japan. No Use Austria

Podcast Episode

Introducing the climate change challenge

Samantha Gross, Barry G. Rabe, and Rod Schoonover

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Omar Wael, a 13-year-old Egyptian developer, uses a virtual reality (VR) device as he works at his home in Alexandria, Egypt, May 23, 2022. Picture taken May 23, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

TechStream

A proactive approach toward addressing the challenges of the metaverse

Landry Signé and Hanna Dooley

Thursday, July 21, 2022