Rapidly escalating conflict in northern Mozambique is the key factor that has pushed the country not just onto Watchlist for the first time, but straight into the list’s top ten countries of most concern.

Colombia is a new addition to Watchlist this year, rising to the  IRC’s countries of concern for 2021 largely due to increasing violence that threatens the 2016 peace accord as well as COVID-19’s devastating impact on displaced Venezuelans and Colombian host communities.

COVID-19, economic pressures, funding shortages and regional tensions all increase the risk of escalation in one of the most protracted situations on this year’s Watchlist, whose origins lie in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.

Here are five ways to enhance the education experience for the most vulnerable children starting in 2021