The Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Weeks (HNPW) 2025 took place from 17 to 28 March. HNPW provided a unique forum for humanitarian networks and partnerships to meet and address key humanitarian issues, gathering participants from the UN, NGOs, Member States, the private sector, the military, academia and beyond to discuss and solve common challenges in humanitarian affairs.
The EiE community was strongly represented, including with the following sessions:
- What happens when we put gender equality at the center of EiE?, organised by Plan International UK and Education Cannot Wait – This session explored the evolving landscape of gender-transformative education in emergencies and protracted crisis (EiEPC) settings, highlighting key shifts, current challenges, and emerging opportunities.
- Protecting Education in Conflict: Policy, practice and voices from the ground, organised by Save the Children, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, the Global Education Cluster, and the EiE Hub – This was a critical opportunity to discuss the urgent need to strengthen collaboration on prevention and response to attacks on education, highlighting national-level experiences as well as promising practices.
- Anticipatory action and preparedness for education in emergencies: progress and latest evidence – This session explored the potential of preparedness and anticipatory action to limit learning interruptions, and highlighted the urgent need to, among other things, develop capacity and budget to better prepare and act ahead of emergencies, make sure quality education – life-saving for children in crisis – is part of those preparations, and enable children and youth to meaningfully participate.
- Ensuring Education Across the Nexus: Lessons from Sudan, organised by the Global Education Cluster and the EiE Hub – Taking Sudan as a case, this session examined how ensuring immediate and longer-term education needs can be addressed through improved coordination between humanitarian and development agencies, fit-for-purpose guidance to education practitioners on the ground, and global advocacy.
The sessions were recorded, and can be viewed below.
What happens when we put gender equality at the center of EiE?
Protecting Education in Conflict: Policy, practice and voices from the ground
Anticipatory action and preparedness for education in emergencies: progress and latest evidence
Ensuring Education Across the Nexus: Lessons from Sudan
