Category Archives: RET

Last May the first ever World Humanitarian Summit (WHS) was held in Istanbul, Turkey. In this article, we go back to RET International’s participation in the event as the importance of education in humanitarian action should be regularly repeated and not only mentioned during large events. To confront challenges such as forced displacement, guaranteeing theContinue reading “Education and Resilience: A Path to Sustainable Humanitarian Action”

Dear Friends of RET, Having just gone through one of the most intense years in my humanitarian career, I wish to introduce this first newsletter of 2016 with a number that has made a profound impression: 60 million. This is the estimated number of persons forcibly displaced due to conflicts, persecutions and disasters at theContinue reading “60 Million Reasons”

  RET International has a strong central message that we repeat whenever we have the opportunity: Young people matter and should not be abandoned by the international community during crises, especially as fragile environments tend to make them more vulnerable. Through “education”, no matter formal or non-formal, they can be protected and become positive actorsContinue reading “Editorial April 2015 Global Newsletter – Zeynep Gündüz”

  Dear Reader, welcome to the October 2014 edition of International’s Global Newsletter. Undoubtedly, the need and volume of humanitarian activity has been unprecedented during the last six months around the world. So much so, that with each day that passes, with conflicts growing, in magnitude and frequency, the premise of our previous edition mayContinue reading “Editorial – RET Global Newsletter – October 2014”

  As you might recall, the previous edition of this newsletter discussed the need to prepare a place for youth in the post-2015 agenda. It had followed in the footsteps of an International Roundtable focusing on this theme. We stressed the urgency and importance of ensuring that youth voices be heard and they be inContinue reading “A RET Youth Ambassador Speaks for Vulnerable Young Women”

  The Millennium Development Goals and the Education For All Goals have shaped and driven the global education agenda for nearly 15 years. The resources of the international community have been allocated in accordance and, on the ground, this has shaped priorities. Youth education in fragile environments was sadly not among these priorities and hasContinue reading “A Place for Youth in the Post-2015 Development Agenda”

As the “Geneva II” peace talks in Switzerland ended without a convincing diplomatic solution and the violence in Syria continues, 2014 appears to be a year of deep and threatening uncertainty. RET, like many other organisations, has entered the region. However, the hidden tragedy of Syria is that, in addition to its suffering, it mayContinue reading “Editorial – RET Global Newsletter – March 2014”

  This 15 October, 23 experts from 16 organisations, engaged in youth education such as UNESCO, the Global Education Cluster, UNHCR, INEE or the Youth Advocacy Group of the Education First Initiative, convened in RET’s offices in Geneva sharing a common concern: will youth education in fragile contexts be taken into account in the Post-2015Continue reading “RET and INEE Collaborate to Improve Advocacy”

  Since 2002, RET has been deeply involved in the work of the International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). RET was among the early actors who pioneered INEE’s Minimum Standards for Education and is presently Co-Chair, with the World Bank, of its Steering Committee and of its Adolescent and Youth Task Team (with GIZ).Continue reading “A New INEE-RET Partnership Monitors the World’s Crises”

Over the years, RET has worked on 3 continents and in 23 countries, implementing over 200 projects. With this diversity of experience and the variety of needs to be addressed, it is sometimes hard to decide on the most relevant theme for a newsletter. We therefore took a step back and reflected once again onContinue reading “Editorial – RET Global Newsletter July 2013”

    In the twelve years since the creation of the RET, women have increasingly been included within the global agenda. Whether you are one who is disheartened by the slow pace of real change or among the optimists, it is a good moment in time to pause and reflect on why women are soContinue reading “Message from the RET’s Executive Director”

  Global Newsletter – January 2012 – “As we start 2012, our thoughts are with all of those around the world who are hoping to live in peace, in harmony, in an environment where they do not have to fear for their lives, where they can live and work as responsible and independent human-beings, goContinue reading “Message from the Executive Director”

  Paths towards peace – Geneva RET Conference – 12-15 December 2011 “Protecting through Education,” reads the Refugee Education Trust’s motto. Indeed, since the year 2000, the RET has committed itself to providing education and to developing self-reliance to youth facing violence, conflicts, and disasters. Consequently, the RET organised its annual Education Conference to discussContinue reading “RET Education Conference in Geneva (December 2011)”

Whilst at the UN for the ECOSOC High Level Segment in July, Zeynep Gunduz spoke to the UN’s South-South News about the RET. Click here to see her interview… http://www.southsouthnews.com/pages/ssn.aspx?m=9a351160-844b-422f-b7bd-c621a57faade

  World Humanitarian Day is a celebration of people helping people. Every day humanitarian aid workers help millions of people around the world.   Every year, disasters cause immense suffering for millions of people – usually the world’s poorest, most marginalized and vulnerable individuals. Humanitarian aid workers strive to provide life-saving assistance and long termContinue reading “August 19th – World Humanitarian Day 2011”

  The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is pleased to launch four major new tools in 2010: INEE Minimum Standards Handbook (updated 2010 edition) is the only global tool that articulates the minimum level of education quality and access in emergencies through to early recovery, providing good practices for coordinated action by governments,Continue reading “NEE Tools Launch in Geneva”