Wakilin UNICEF a Ethiopia, Dr. Aboubacar Kampo, ya bayyana a ranar 9 ga Disamba, 2024, cewa shirin gaggawa na kudi da Education Cannot Wait (ECW) ta bayar, ya samar da damar samun ilimi ga yara da dama a Ethiopia.
A lokacin da aka kammala tafiyar aji na babban matakin a Ethiopia, ECW Global Champion da Ministan Kudi na Denmark, Nicolai Wammen, tare da Darakta Janar na ECW, Yasmine Sherif, sun kira da a dauki matakan karfi na masu ba da gudummawa don samar da hanyoyin ba da kudi na sababbi da masana’antu don isar da ilimi mai inganci ga milioni da dama na yara da ke cikin hatsarin gida a Ethiopia da wasu sassan duniya.
An kiyasta cewa kimanin yara milioni tisa a Ethiopia ba sa zuwa makaranta a yanzu saboda ci gaban tashin hankali, bala’in yanayowe daga canjin yanayi da kaura ta tilastawa – wanda ya karu kamar uku daga shekarar 2022. Kusan kashi 18% na makarantun a kasar an lalata su ko kuma lalace su. Ethiopia kuma tana daukar matsayi na uku a Afirka a matsayin wajen zama na ‘yan gudun hijira, tare da samun zama na ‘yan gudun hijira sama da 200,000 daga Sudan da Somalia a shekarar 2023-2024 kadai, wanda ya kara karfin kan albarkatun da ke akwai.
Tawagar babban matakin ECW ta tafi yankin Tigray, wanda ke murmurewa daga rikicin shekaru uku wanda ya kawo karshen ilimi. Tawagar ta ziyarci makarantu masu manufa daga kudaden ECW da abokan hulda na ƙasa da ƙasa, sannan ta hadu da yara, iyaye da malamai. Tawagar ta gani a fuska ta kai ta yadda shirye-shirye da ECW suka goyi bayan su, wanda aka aiwatar a kusa da haɗin gwiwa tare da gwamnati – ciki har da UNICEF, Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children da Imagine1Day – suna aiki.
“Yarjejeniyar ilimi a Ethiopia ita ce daya daga cikin manyan rikice-rikice marasa sauti a duniya a yau. Amma, mun gan shi cewa zai iya samar da tasiri mai ban mamaki daga kudaden ECW. Sha’awar koyo a tsakanin ‘yan mata da maza ta nuna sosai. Yanzu mun bukaci a goyi bayansu kuma a kira da kawo kudaden masu ba da gudummawa don samar da kudaden za su ci gaba,” in ji Yasmine Sherif, Darakta Janar na Education Cannot Wait, wanda shi ne kudin duniya na ilimi a cikin hatsari da rikice-rikice na dogon lokaci a cikin Majalisar Dinkin Duniya.
A lokacin tafiyar, Sherif ta sanar da sabon kudin gaggawa na dala milioni biyar na First Emergency Response (FER) grant, wanda ya kawo jimillar kudaden ECW a Ethiopia zuwa sama da dala milioni 93 tun daga shekarar 2017. Sabon kudin FER grant, wanda aka aiwatar ta hanyar UNICEF (dala milioni 4) da ƙungiyar gida ta Imagine1Day (dala milioni 1) tare da abokan hulda na haɗin gwiwa, ya nufin kawo maganin bukatun gaggawa a yankunan Oromia da Afar, inda rikicin da aka sake farfado, tashin hankali tsakanin al’umma, kurkuku da kaura ta tilastawa sun lalata ayyukan ilimi a watannin da suka gabata. Wadannan ayyukan gaggawa za su dogara ne kan kudaden dala milioni 24 na Multi-Year Resilience Programme da ECW ta sanar a watan da ya gabata, wanda ya nufin bukatun a yankunan Amhara, Somali da Tigray.
