Quality Education

With financing from the Joint SDG Fund, Jamaica is implementing a digital transformation that improves outcomes for children by modernising learning, teacher capacity and food systems, with the UN providing support under the Resident Coordinator's guidance.

Across Iraq, people are building peace every day with support from the UN through education, inclusion, economic opportunities and reconciliation, laying the foundation for sustainable development even as the country grapples with the wounds of conflict.

On the International Day to Protect Education from Attack, a new report warns that 258 million children across 87 countries face severe learning disruption. Displaced children and students with disabilities are experiencing the most significant barriers to learning.

After last month's earthquake affected 16 regions in Colombia, the UN and partners are working to rebuild without recreating risk while also strengthening local capacities and supporting vulnerable communities.

With financing from the Joint SDG Fund, the UN engaged Sama Bajau families to translate their self-assessed priorities into tangible change, showing how public programmes can better reflect Indigenous cultures, livelihoods and priorities in data and planning.

The UN is working with the Government of Benin to reach both host and displaced communities with long-term support and immediate aid, reducing pressures on farmland, schools and essential resources.

Nia Jetter launched a non-profit that expands access to AI and scientific education for communities historically underserved by the tech sector, aligning with the UN's mission of ensuring that the shifting digital world does not widen inequalities.

Egypt is working with the UN to integrate its 10.5 million migrants, refugees and foreign nationals through a coordinated approach that improves access to health, education and protection services, supporting displaced and host communities alike.

The latest Sustainable Development Goals report shows that the development agenda is delivering for communities, but not evenly or fast enough. Political will, sustained investment and international cooperation are needed amid growing pressures.

Governments are reporting the highest levels of satisfaction with UN development support since reforms of the development system began nearly a decade ago. But continued progress will depend on sustained political engagement and more predictable financing.

As women across Moldova continue to face barriers in balancing work and family, the Government is collaborating with the UN and partners to invest in expanded childcare, support family-friendly workplace policies and create flexible solutions for parents.

Young leaders across the globe are solving environmental and human development challenges by improving how people interact with nature, valuing diverse ways of thinking and enabling more inclusive participation in shaping solutions.

A UN partnership in Sudan's White Nile State invests in inclusive, sustainable education and advocates for the integration of refugees into national systems, supporting displaced and local students whose education was disrupted amid conflict.

As AI increasingly affects Small Island Developing States, they must have a say in who will shape it, under what rules and in whose interest. Through frameworks, programmes and assessments, the UN is supporting Jamaica and its youth to thrive in a technical world.

With support from the Joint SDG Fund, the UN and partners, a home-grown school feeding initiative in Kenya's Embu County links farmers to schools via cooperatives, turning harvests into meals that fuel economic growth and improve students' nutrition and retention.