INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility
Feb 25, 2016
INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility
INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility
An inter-agency mechanism (26 organizations) to coordinate diverse initiatives and catalyze collaborative action on education and fragility. Through:
- Dialogue on the role of education in State and Peace building
- The promotion of conflict-sensitive education
Fragile contexts
Characteristics of
contexts affected by fragility
• Institutional instability• Poor governance• Prone to violent conflict
– organized violence • Pockets of exclusion
Fragile contexts
What is the challenge?
• Of 61 million children worldwide out of primary school, 28 million live in conflict-affected fragile states (UNESCO, EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012)
• Children in these contexts are nearly 3 times as likely to be out of primary school than in other low income countries.
• Child mortality rates in fragile contexts are twice as high as in other developing countries.
AND . . .The myriad of complex ways in which delivery of education may exacerbate or mitigate existing conditions of fragility and violent conflict
Social
Governance
Security
Economic Environmental
EDUCATION
Challenges delivery of education services within fragile situations . . .
Source: Kerstin Tebbe - INEE
Education and Fragility
What is important is…
Not only examining service delivery but also:
Access to education,
relevance of curriculum,
management of systems,
quality of education and
equity in delivery
Why consider conflict issues into education policies and programs?
• Technical solutions are not sufficient to address the challenges found in CAF contexts;
• Lack of attention to conflict can lead to negative impacts of education in the particular context and other sectors.
• Education programmes should minimize negative impacts and maximize positive ones – Education should be conflict-sensitive
INEE TOOLS
INEE’s Working Group on Education and Fragility has developed two tools on conflict-sensitive education:
• Diagnostic tool for conflict-sensitive education design, planning and programming
• Guiding Principles for donors on integrating conflict-sensitivity in education policy and programming
Diagnostic Tool for Conflict-Sensitive Education Programming
Interested in piloting the Diagnostic Tool?
December 2012 January 2013 February 2013 1 March 2013
Agree on piloting process and period
Agreement Piloting process
Initiate review process of the use of the tool with those involved
Review
Provide feedback and recommendations to INEE
Feedback
Guiding Principles for Donors on Integrating Conflict-Sensitivity in
Education Policy and Programming
Guidance Note on Conflict-Sensitive Education
A reference tool for conflict sensitive education strategies and resources for education practitioners and policy makers working in conflict-affected and fragile contexts.
For further information...
…contact us!
[email protected]://www.ineesite.org/en/education-fragility
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