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Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the United Nations’ global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, has announced a $25 million commitment to assist refugee and host community children in Uganda’s education system.

The commitment, which boosts ECW’s funding in Uganda to more than $75 million, will expand the Multi-Year Resilience Programme, which is focused on access, quality of delivery, and the strengthening of systems supporting inclusion across Uganda’s education system.

Philanthropy is intrinsically linked to ideology – about how the world works, about belief systems, about the role of philanthropy itself. Accordingly, transforming the system of institutional philanthropy demands an ideological underpinning, not just a practice-based one. The last few years have seen several narratives around philanthropic transformation emerge.