13 Mar 2026
Join the SEA Knowledge Café
The KIX EMAP Hub is launching a new knowledge exchange activity in the Southeast Asia (SEA) sub-region: Knowledge Cafés. These Knowledge Cafés are meant to be an informal and collaborative conversation, designed to foster open dialogue and knowledge exchange amongst participants in the sub-region on topics of mutual interest. The SEA Knowledge Cafés will be... Read More
12 Mar 2026
The Nexus Approach and Its Impact on Educational Performance in Ethiopia
In this blog post, which is part of NORRAG’s Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus blog series, Shirega Minuye reports on Ethiopia’s Nexus Approach, which offers a viable strategy for enhancing educational performance by integrating education with complementary sectors such as nutrition, health, water, sanitation, and social protection. He highlights school feeding programmes, which were recognised by African Union... Read More
06 Mar 2026
Event Highlights: Global Refugee Forum Progress Review Linked Side Event: “Teachers at the Frontline: Voices from Refugee Settings on Progress, Challenges, and the Path Forward for GRF Pledges”
Featured Image: Flags marking the 2023 Global Refugee Forum are hung along the Pont du Mont Blanc in Geneva in December 2023. © UNHCR/Olivier Chamard Teachers are central to the refugee education response and must be supported. That was the clear message in December’s Global Refugee Forum Progress Review linked side event on teachers. Hosted... Read More
NORRAG at CIES 2026
28 March – 1 April 2026 San Francisco, California, United States NORRAG is pleased to participate in the 70th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) in San Francisco, taking place from March 28 to April 1, 2026. Under the theme “Re-examining Education and Peace in a Divided World,” the conference invites... Read More
Beyond 2030: What Role for Higher Education in the New Global Agenda?
Wednesday 13 May 15:00 – 17:00 CET Online (Zoom) REGISTER In 2015, the United Nations agreed Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), putting in place a global framework of action for the next 15 years. With only five years left, few believe that the goals will be achieved, and some aspects of the... Read More
Meeting the Inequality Emergency: Building a New Era of Understanding and Cooperation
Monday 16 March 2026 15:30 – 17:00 CET Room VIII, Floor 3, Building A, Palais des Nations REGISTER The G20 Extraordinary Committee of Independent Experts on Global Inequality – commissioned by President Cyril Ramaphosa for South Africa’s Presidency of the G20 – published the first ever report on global inequality to the G20 in November 2025.... Read More
05 Mar 2026
Call for Inputs: Draft General Comment on the Application of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Situations of Armed Conflicts
Purpose The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights invites inputs to inform its work on elaborating a draft general comment on the Application of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Situations of Armed Conflicts. Background CONCEPT NOTE At its seventy-eighth session, the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights decided... Read More
05 Mar 2026
Disappointed in Adults
In this contribution to NORRAG’s “Provocations for education from youth climate activism” blog series, Claudia Ruitenberg reflects on youth climate activists’ disappointment in institutional failures and calls on educators to reconsider how climate education—both offered and withheld—may repeatedly disappoint youth. In February 2020, just before the pandemic made large in-person gatherings impossible, I had the... Read More
03 Mar 2026
EpiNet at UNESCO Futures Dialogues: Futures of Knowledge
A Contribution towards Clearing the ‘Nasal Passage’ of the Academy The EPINET UNITWIN Network is proud to contribute to UNESCO’s monthly online Futures Dialogues. The March 2026 session, on Futures of Knowledge, will reflect on what it would take to sustain the progress made towards more inclusive knowledge societies in the context of rapid technological changes, geopolitical uncertainties,... Read More