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INEE Minimum Standards and Toolsshy Hardcopies of INEE Materials Available
Training and Capacity Development shy International Summer School on Higher Education in Emergencies
Resourcesshy What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attackshy Core Humanitarian Standard Training Handbook English and Frenchshy Monitoring Reporting to Protect Education in Insecurity and Conflictshy Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Education in South Kivushy RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring the Right to Education Opinionsshy One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education in the Syriashy Importance of education recognized at conference on Syriashy Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workshy JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy
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that the total economicloss due to the dropoutfrom basic andsecondary education inSyria as of 2012 is US$107 billion shy UNICEF
INEE News Roundup
Calls for Action
Call for Participants WISE Learners Voice Recruitment Campaign World Innovation Summit for Education
WISE is pleased to announce the start of the 201617 Learnersrsquo Voicerecruitment campaign
The Learners Voice Program brings the voice of young people to thechallenge of rethinking education and equips them to take on leading roles in their fields and in theworld of education The Program is based on the conviction that when learners are coshycreators of theirlearning environments they become active participants invested collectively as stakeholders in theprogress of their communities
WISE is now seeking a new group of outstanding young learners aged 18 to 25 to join this growingglobal community The learners can apply or be nominated to take part in the Program The selectedgroup will participate in a series of online and onshysite activities throughout the year
The global call for applications is now open and will run until 1500 GMT on March 31 2016
Click here for more information and to access the application
Education in Emergencies at CIES 2016USAID ECCN
Will You Be at CIES 2016 in Vancouver BC
USAID ECCN is compiling a list of all CIES presentationsand sessions that pertain to education in crisis and conflict
Review the list and if you see that a relevant event is missingplease send details to Bettina Dembek ltbdembekedcorggt so itcan be added to the list
USAID ECCN is also hosting a reception for all ECCN members at CIES on Tuesday March 8 from730pmshy930pm If you are not a ECCN member you can join by registering for a free account
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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Registration is now openThe SAR Network 2016 Global Congress will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Scholars at RiskNetwork and the collective efforts of network members and partners protecting scholars and promotingacademic freedom worldwide Over the years the network has grown from fewer than two dozeninstitutions to over 400 in 39 countries
At the Congress more than 200 university government and nonprofit leaders faculty staff students andadvocates from 25 countries will come together to discuss seminal issues facing higher education todayCongress participants will discuss how to do more to protect universities and scholars in thesechallenging times and to strengthen the capacity of the university sector to contribute to a morepeaceful just and sustainable world
The 2016 Congress will provide global SAR network membersmdashand prospective new members andpartnersmdasha special opportunity to engage with Canadian and other North American SAR members aswell as to enjoy all the cultural historical and natural features that Montreal offers
Significant early bird registration discounts are available to students and SAR Network members
Learn more and register today
INEE Minimum Standards and Tools
Hardcopies of INEE Materials AvailableINEE
INEE is pleased to provide hard copies of a variety of practical fieldshyfriendlytools and resources to guide educationalists humanitarian workers andgovernment officials working in the field of education in emergencies through torecovery Tools are available free of charge until funds are exhausted in avariety of languages including English Spanish Arabic French andPortuguese
Please keep in mind that INEE will request members reimburse the shippingcosts If you a training or other event coming up please request the resourceswell in advance
To order hardcopies of INEE materials online click here Please address anyquestions to materialsineesiteorg
Training and Capacity Development
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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International Summer School on Higher Education in EmergenciesUniversity of GenevaUNHCR
Dates June 20th shy July 1st 2016Location University of Geneva
Are you a humanitarian practitioner interested in higher education inconflicts and crises A researcher focusing on internationalrelations international education or education technology Arepresentative of an organization or ministry whose mission includeshigher education
Participants will
Explore the latest advancements in postshysecondary education in emergency and protractedsettingsCollaborate with UN agencies NGOs and educatorsDiscuss policy and programming recommendations innovative solutions pedagogicalapproaches and the potential role of universities as humanitarian actorsExamine international policies that impact higher education in conflicts and crisesAnalyze and assess the potential of virtual and connected learning open educational resourcesand technologyApply learnershycentered design approaches to complex realshyworld projects andEngage with realshyworld case studies through collaborative learning and highshylevel seminars
Early birdscholarship application deadline March 1 2016Final application deadline May 1 2016
Click here to learn more and apply
Resources
What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from MilitaryUse A Menu of ActionsGlobal Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
OverviewGCPEA has documented that in the last decade schools anduniversities have been used for military purposes in 26 countriesmdashthemajority of states in which there have been armed conflictsmdashbetween2005shy2015
This Menu of Actions is intended as a resource to empower personnelof ministries responsible for education (hereafter lsquoMinistriesrsquo orlsquoMinistryrsquo) to better prevent attacks on education or protect schools
from military use mitigate the impact of attacks when they do occur and respond to attacks
The actions are drawn primarily from publications by GCPEA and its member organizations
Click here to read the the full report
Core Humanitarian Standard Training Handbook now available in English andFrenchCHS Alliance
OverviewThe handbook used by trainers during a twoshyday Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)workshop is now available to download for those who want to design andor deliver training on the CHS
The handbook contains an overview of the training programme a breakshydown of sessions on each of the
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 58
Standards nine commitments notes for training facilitators andtemplates and worksheets for activities
This resource may be used and adapted freely with no charge for itsuse
Click here to access the handbook
Reports Monitoring and Reporting to Enhance the Protection of Education inSituations of Insecurity and ConflictCPC Learning Network
OverviewThis synthesis report of inshydepth studies of attacks on education in SouthKivu province Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and MogadishuSomalia is an attempt to fill some of these information gaps andcontribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoringand responding to such attacks
The research team shy led by CPC Learning Network founding director NeilBoothby faculty affiliate Les Roberts and senior researchassociate Cyril Bennouna shy appraised the available measures for
safeguarding schools students and educational personnel in these two contexts while exploringstrategies to enhance prevention protection surveillance and response
Click here to read the full report
Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Children and Education in South Kivu AKnowledge Collection and Sensitivity Analysis in the DR Congo Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
ArticleArmed attacks on education affect students and school personnelaround the world South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republicof the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks oneducation but robust prevalence estimates are challenging as thereare currently no validated streamlined and pragmatic methodsavailable for monitoring attacks on education
Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within thechild protection and education sectors this study publishedin Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies used semistructured interviews with key informantsthroughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods
Click here to read the article
RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring The Right To Education The Right to Education Project
Monitoring Guide The Right to Education Project (RTE) is pleased to announce thepublication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right toEducation and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
All rights reserved If you reshyprint copy archive or reshypost this message please retain this disclaimer Quotationsor extracts should include attribution to the original sources
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to an INEE email list
Update your email subscriptions shy OR shy Unsubscribe ltltEmail addressgtgt from ALL INEE email lists
IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)122 E 42nd St New York NY 10168
wwwineesiteorg
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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that the total economicloss due to the dropoutfrom basic andsecondary education inSyria as of 2012 is US$107 billion shy UNICEF
INEE News Roundup
Calls for Action
Call for Participants WISE Learners Voice Recruitment Campaign World Innovation Summit for Education
WISE is pleased to announce the start of the 201617 Learnersrsquo Voicerecruitment campaign
The Learners Voice Program brings the voice of young people to thechallenge of rethinking education and equips them to take on leading roles in their fields and in theworld of education The Program is based on the conviction that when learners are coshycreators of theirlearning environments they become active participants invested collectively as stakeholders in theprogress of their communities
WISE is now seeking a new group of outstanding young learners aged 18 to 25 to join this growingglobal community The learners can apply or be nominated to take part in the Program The selectedgroup will participate in a series of online and onshysite activities throughout the year
The global call for applications is now open and will run until 1500 GMT on March 31 2016
Click here for more information and to access the application
Education in Emergencies at CIES 2016USAID ECCN
Will You Be at CIES 2016 in Vancouver BC
USAID ECCN is compiling a list of all CIES presentationsand sessions that pertain to education in crisis and conflict
Review the list and if you see that a relevant event is missingplease send details to Bettina Dembek ltbdembekedcorggt so itcan be added to the list
USAID ECCN is also hosting a reception for all ECCN members at CIES on Tuesday March 8 from730pmshy930pm If you are not a ECCN member you can join by registering for a free account
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 38
Registration is now openThe SAR Network 2016 Global Congress will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Scholars at RiskNetwork and the collective efforts of network members and partners protecting scholars and promotingacademic freedom worldwide Over the years the network has grown from fewer than two dozeninstitutions to over 400 in 39 countries
At the Congress more than 200 university government and nonprofit leaders faculty staff students andadvocates from 25 countries will come together to discuss seminal issues facing higher education todayCongress participants will discuss how to do more to protect universities and scholars in thesechallenging times and to strengthen the capacity of the university sector to contribute to a morepeaceful just and sustainable world
The 2016 Congress will provide global SAR network membersmdashand prospective new members andpartnersmdasha special opportunity to engage with Canadian and other North American SAR members aswell as to enjoy all the cultural historical and natural features that Montreal offers
Significant early bird registration discounts are available to students and SAR Network members
Learn more and register today
INEE Minimum Standards and Tools
Hardcopies of INEE Materials AvailableINEE
INEE is pleased to provide hard copies of a variety of practical fieldshyfriendlytools and resources to guide educationalists humanitarian workers andgovernment officials working in the field of education in emergencies through torecovery Tools are available free of charge until funds are exhausted in avariety of languages including English Spanish Arabic French andPortuguese
Please keep in mind that INEE will request members reimburse the shippingcosts If you a training or other event coming up please request the resourceswell in advance
To order hardcopies of INEE materials online click here Please address anyquestions to materialsineesiteorg
Training and Capacity Development
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 48
International Summer School on Higher Education in EmergenciesUniversity of GenevaUNHCR
Dates June 20th shy July 1st 2016Location University of Geneva
Are you a humanitarian practitioner interested in higher education inconflicts and crises A researcher focusing on internationalrelations international education or education technology Arepresentative of an organization or ministry whose mission includeshigher education
Participants will
Explore the latest advancements in postshysecondary education in emergency and protractedsettingsCollaborate with UN agencies NGOs and educatorsDiscuss policy and programming recommendations innovative solutions pedagogicalapproaches and the potential role of universities as humanitarian actorsExamine international policies that impact higher education in conflicts and crisesAnalyze and assess the potential of virtual and connected learning open educational resourcesand technologyApply learnershycentered design approaches to complex realshyworld projects andEngage with realshyworld case studies through collaborative learning and highshylevel seminars
Early birdscholarship application deadline March 1 2016Final application deadline May 1 2016
Click here to learn more and apply
Resources
What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from MilitaryUse A Menu of ActionsGlobal Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
OverviewGCPEA has documented that in the last decade schools anduniversities have been used for military purposes in 26 countriesmdashthemajority of states in which there have been armed conflictsmdashbetween2005shy2015
This Menu of Actions is intended as a resource to empower personnelof ministries responsible for education (hereafter lsquoMinistriesrsquo orlsquoMinistryrsquo) to better prevent attacks on education or protect schools
from military use mitigate the impact of attacks when they do occur and respond to attacks
The actions are drawn primarily from publications by GCPEA and its member organizations
Click here to read the the full report
Core Humanitarian Standard Training Handbook now available in English andFrenchCHS Alliance
OverviewThe handbook used by trainers during a twoshyday Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)workshop is now available to download for those who want to design andor deliver training on the CHS
The handbook contains an overview of the training programme a breakshydown of sessions on each of the
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 58
Standards nine commitments notes for training facilitators andtemplates and worksheets for activities
This resource may be used and adapted freely with no charge for itsuse
Click here to access the handbook
Reports Monitoring and Reporting to Enhance the Protection of Education inSituations of Insecurity and ConflictCPC Learning Network
OverviewThis synthesis report of inshydepth studies of attacks on education in SouthKivu province Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and MogadishuSomalia is an attempt to fill some of these information gaps andcontribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoringand responding to such attacks
The research team shy led by CPC Learning Network founding director NeilBoothby faculty affiliate Les Roberts and senior researchassociate Cyril Bennouna shy appraised the available measures for
safeguarding schools students and educational personnel in these two contexts while exploringstrategies to enhance prevention protection surveillance and response
Click here to read the full report
Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Children and Education in South Kivu AKnowledge Collection and Sensitivity Analysis in the DR Congo Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
ArticleArmed attacks on education affect students and school personnelaround the world South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republicof the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks oneducation but robust prevalence estimates are challenging as thereare currently no validated streamlined and pragmatic methodsavailable for monitoring attacks on education
Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within thechild protection and education sectors this study publishedin Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies used semistructured interviews with key informantsthroughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods
Click here to read the article
RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring The Right To Education The Right to Education Project
Monitoring Guide The Right to Education Project (RTE) is pleased to announce thepublication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right toEducation and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 68
Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 78
To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 88
focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
All rights reserved If you reshyprint copy archive or reshypost this message please retain this disclaimer Quotationsor extracts should include attribution to the original sources
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to an INEE email list
Update your email subscriptions shy OR shy Unsubscribe ltltEmail addressgtgt from ALL INEE email lists
IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)122 E 42nd St New York NY 10168
wwwineesiteorg
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 38
Registration is now openThe SAR Network 2016 Global Congress will celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Scholars at RiskNetwork and the collective efforts of network members and partners protecting scholars and promotingacademic freedom worldwide Over the years the network has grown from fewer than two dozeninstitutions to over 400 in 39 countries
At the Congress more than 200 university government and nonprofit leaders faculty staff students andadvocates from 25 countries will come together to discuss seminal issues facing higher education todayCongress participants will discuss how to do more to protect universities and scholars in thesechallenging times and to strengthen the capacity of the university sector to contribute to a morepeaceful just and sustainable world
The 2016 Congress will provide global SAR network membersmdashand prospective new members andpartnersmdasha special opportunity to engage with Canadian and other North American SAR members aswell as to enjoy all the cultural historical and natural features that Montreal offers
Significant early bird registration discounts are available to students and SAR Network members
Learn more and register today
INEE Minimum Standards and Tools
Hardcopies of INEE Materials AvailableINEE
INEE is pleased to provide hard copies of a variety of practical fieldshyfriendlytools and resources to guide educationalists humanitarian workers andgovernment officials working in the field of education in emergencies through torecovery Tools are available free of charge until funds are exhausted in avariety of languages including English Spanish Arabic French andPortuguese
Please keep in mind that INEE will request members reimburse the shippingcosts If you a training or other event coming up please request the resourceswell in advance
To order hardcopies of INEE materials online click here Please address anyquestions to materialsineesiteorg
Training and Capacity Development
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 48
International Summer School on Higher Education in EmergenciesUniversity of GenevaUNHCR
Dates June 20th shy July 1st 2016Location University of Geneva
Are you a humanitarian practitioner interested in higher education inconflicts and crises A researcher focusing on internationalrelations international education or education technology Arepresentative of an organization or ministry whose mission includeshigher education
Participants will
Explore the latest advancements in postshysecondary education in emergency and protractedsettingsCollaborate with UN agencies NGOs and educatorsDiscuss policy and programming recommendations innovative solutions pedagogicalapproaches and the potential role of universities as humanitarian actorsExamine international policies that impact higher education in conflicts and crisesAnalyze and assess the potential of virtual and connected learning open educational resourcesand technologyApply learnershycentered design approaches to complex realshyworld projects andEngage with realshyworld case studies through collaborative learning and highshylevel seminars
Early birdscholarship application deadline March 1 2016Final application deadline May 1 2016
Click here to learn more and apply
Resources
What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from MilitaryUse A Menu of ActionsGlobal Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
OverviewGCPEA has documented that in the last decade schools anduniversities have been used for military purposes in 26 countriesmdashthemajority of states in which there have been armed conflictsmdashbetween2005shy2015
This Menu of Actions is intended as a resource to empower personnelof ministries responsible for education (hereafter lsquoMinistriesrsquo orlsquoMinistryrsquo) to better prevent attacks on education or protect schools
from military use mitigate the impact of attacks when they do occur and respond to attacks
The actions are drawn primarily from publications by GCPEA and its member organizations
Click here to read the the full report
Core Humanitarian Standard Training Handbook now available in English andFrenchCHS Alliance
OverviewThe handbook used by trainers during a twoshyday Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)workshop is now available to download for those who want to design andor deliver training on the CHS
The handbook contains an overview of the training programme a breakshydown of sessions on each of the
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 58
Standards nine commitments notes for training facilitators andtemplates and worksheets for activities
This resource may be used and adapted freely with no charge for itsuse
Click here to access the handbook
Reports Monitoring and Reporting to Enhance the Protection of Education inSituations of Insecurity and ConflictCPC Learning Network
OverviewThis synthesis report of inshydepth studies of attacks on education in SouthKivu province Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and MogadishuSomalia is an attempt to fill some of these information gaps andcontribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoringand responding to such attacks
The research team shy led by CPC Learning Network founding director NeilBoothby faculty affiliate Les Roberts and senior researchassociate Cyril Bennouna shy appraised the available measures for
safeguarding schools students and educational personnel in these two contexts while exploringstrategies to enhance prevention protection surveillance and response
Click here to read the full report
Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Children and Education in South Kivu AKnowledge Collection and Sensitivity Analysis in the DR Congo Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
ArticleArmed attacks on education affect students and school personnelaround the world South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republicof the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks oneducation but robust prevalence estimates are challenging as thereare currently no validated streamlined and pragmatic methodsavailable for monitoring attacks on education
Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within thechild protection and education sectors this study publishedin Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies used semistructured interviews with key informantsthroughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods
Click here to read the article
RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring The Right To Education The Right to Education Project
Monitoring Guide The Right to Education Project (RTE) is pleased to announce thepublication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right toEducation and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 68
Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 78
To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 88
focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
All rights reserved If you reshyprint copy archive or reshypost this message please retain this disclaimer Quotationsor extracts should include attribution to the original sources
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Update your email subscriptions shy OR shy Unsubscribe ltltEmail addressgtgt from ALL INEE email lists
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International Summer School on Higher Education in EmergenciesUniversity of GenevaUNHCR
Dates June 20th shy July 1st 2016Location University of Geneva
Are you a humanitarian practitioner interested in higher education inconflicts and crises A researcher focusing on internationalrelations international education or education technology Arepresentative of an organization or ministry whose mission includeshigher education
Participants will
Explore the latest advancements in postshysecondary education in emergency and protractedsettingsCollaborate with UN agencies NGOs and educatorsDiscuss policy and programming recommendations innovative solutions pedagogicalapproaches and the potential role of universities as humanitarian actorsExamine international policies that impact higher education in conflicts and crisesAnalyze and assess the potential of virtual and connected learning open educational resourcesand technologyApply learnershycentered design approaches to complex realshyworld projects andEngage with realshyworld case studies through collaborative learning and highshylevel seminars
Early birdscholarship application deadline March 1 2016Final application deadline May 1 2016
Click here to learn more and apply
Resources
What Ministries Can Do to Protect Education from Attack and Schools from MilitaryUse A Menu of ActionsGlobal Coalition to Protect Education from Attack
OverviewGCPEA has documented that in the last decade schools anduniversities have been used for military purposes in 26 countriesmdashthemajority of states in which there have been armed conflictsmdashbetween2005shy2015
This Menu of Actions is intended as a resource to empower personnelof ministries responsible for education (hereafter lsquoMinistriesrsquo orlsquoMinistryrsquo) to better prevent attacks on education or protect schools
from military use mitigate the impact of attacks when they do occur and respond to attacks
The actions are drawn primarily from publications by GCPEA and its member organizations
Click here to read the the full report
Core Humanitarian Standard Training Handbook now available in English andFrenchCHS Alliance
OverviewThe handbook used by trainers during a twoshyday Introduction to the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS)workshop is now available to download for those who want to design andor deliver training on the CHS
The handbook contains an overview of the training programme a breakshydown of sessions on each of the
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 58
Standards nine commitments notes for training facilitators andtemplates and worksheets for activities
This resource may be used and adapted freely with no charge for itsuse
Click here to access the handbook
Reports Monitoring and Reporting to Enhance the Protection of Education inSituations of Insecurity and ConflictCPC Learning Network
OverviewThis synthesis report of inshydepth studies of attacks on education in SouthKivu province Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and MogadishuSomalia is an attempt to fill some of these information gaps andcontribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoringand responding to such attacks
The research team shy led by CPC Learning Network founding director NeilBoothby faculty affiliate Les Roberts and senior researchassociate Cyril Bennouna shy appraised the available measures for
safeguarding schools students and educational personnel in these two contexts while exploringstrategies to enhance prevention protection surveillance and response
Click here to read the full report
Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Children and Education in South Kivu AKnowledge Collection and Sensitivity Analysis in the DR Congo Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
ArticleArmed attacks on education affect students and school personnelaround the world South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republicof the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks oneducation but robust prevalence estimates are challenging as thereare currently no validated streamlined and pragmatic methodsavailable for monitoring attacks on education
Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within thechild protection and education sectors this study publishedin Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies used semistructured interviews with key informantsthroughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods
Click here to read the article
RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring The Right To Education The Right to Education Project
Monitoring Guide The Right to Education Project (RTE) is pleased to announce thepublication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right toEducation and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 68
Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 78
To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 88
focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
All rights reserved If you reshyprint copy archive or reshypost this message please retain this disclaimer Quotationsor extracts should include attribution to the original sources
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to an INEE email list
Update your email subscriptions shy OR shy Unsubscribe ltltEmail addressgtgt from ALL INEE email lists
IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)122 E 42nd St New York NY 10168
wwwineesiteorg
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 58
Standards nine commitments notes for training facilitators andtemplates and worksheets for activities
This resource may be used and adapted freely with no charge for itsuse
Click here to access the handbook
Reports Monitoring and Reporting to Enhance the Protection of Education inSituations of Insecurity and ConflictCPC Learning Network
OverviewThis synthesis report of inshydepth studies of attacks on education in SouthKivu province Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and MogadishuSomalia is an attempt to fill some of these information gaps andcontribute to the development of improved methodologies for monitoringand responding to such attacks
The research team shy led by CPC Learning Network founding director NeilBoothby faculty affiliate Les Roberts and senior researchassociate Cyril Bennouna shy appraised the available measures for
safeguarding schools students and educational personnel in these two contexts while exploringstrategies to enhance prevention protection surveillance and response
Click here to read the full report
Improving Surveillance of Attacks on Children and Education in South Kivu AKnowledge Collection and Sensitivity Analysis in the DR Congo Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies
ArticleArmed attacks on education affect students and school personnelaround the world South Kivu province in eastern Democratic Republicof the Congo is thought to have particularly high rates of attacks oneducation but robust prevalence estimates are challenging as thereare currently no validated streamlined and pragmatic methodsavailable for monitoring attacks on education
Drawing on the wealth of information across organizations within thechild protection and education sectors this study publishedin Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies used semistructured interviews with key informantsthroughout South Kivu to enumerate the attacks that took place during two separate periods
Click here to read the article
RTE Launches Online Guide to Monitoring The Right To Education The Right to Education Project
Monitoring Guide The Right to Education Project (RTE) is pleased to announce thepublication of an online Guide to Monitoring the Right toEducation and accompanying Right to Education Indicators Selection
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 68
Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 78
To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 88
focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
All rights reserved If you reshyprint copy archive or reshypost this message please retain this disclaimer Quotationsor extracts should include attribution to the original sources
You are receiving this message because you subscribed to an INEE email list
Update your email subscriptions shy OR shy Unsubscribe ltltEmail addressgtgt from ALL INEE email lists
IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)122 E 42nd St New York NY 10168
wwwineesiteorg
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
httpus5campaignshyarchive2comu=fef0506b371181f31cc3ba467ampid=ce66055ce6 68
Tool They have produced the Guide and Tool to demystify and simplify the monitoring process and helpall those engaging in education advocacy to gather credible and relevant evidence using human rightsindicators which can then be used as a basis upon which to advocate for change in line with humanrights law and principles
To accompany the Guide they have also developed a Right to Education Indicators SelectionTool The Tool is fully interactive allowing users to click on the issues they want to monitor Makingselections whittles down the list of indicators (from our bank of over 150 human rights indicators) leavingusers with a list of relevant indicators for monitoring
Click here for more information and to access the Guide and Tool
Opinions
One size does not fit all shy Nonshyformal education approaches in the Syria contextSilje Skeie Education Advisor at the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Conflict and displacement in Syria has led to the disruption of education and learning loss for millions of
children and youth 14 million children of schoolshygoing age have beenforced to flee the country more than half of them are now out of schoolWhere schools should be places of safety and refuge the opposite is truegoing to school is one of the deadliest pursuits for children in Syria today The Syrian crisis is also an education crisis
World leaders meet in London this week to address the urgenthumanitarian needs of Syria Given the dire situation and continuedinterruption to the education of so many young people it is paramount thatleaders commit to a comprehensive education plan This must includepolicies that guarantee access to quality education as recommended bythe efforts of twelve international and local nonshygovernmental organisationscurrently providing education in across the region
Click to read the full blog post
This post is part of the INEE Steering Group Blog Series in which INEE Steering Group members sharetheir current work and ideas on education in emergencies
Importance of education recognized at conference on SyriaGPE Secretariat
Conflict remains a major factor keeping children out of schoolEducation continues to receive less than 2 of humanitarian appealsWe have to do more and we have to do better
Those countries that most need the benefits of education are oftenthose with the most children missing out on education South Sudan ishome to the highest proportion of outndashofshyschool children with over half(51) of primary and lower secondary age children not accessing aneducation Niger is a close second with 47 children unable to attend
school followed by Sudan (41) and Afghanistan (40) (UNICEF press release)
Click here to read the blog post
Telling the Goal 3 Story Are we capturing the impact of our workUSAID ECCN
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
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JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
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EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
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focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
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To answer this question the ECCN support team recentlyconducted an analysis of 26 Performance and EvaluationMonitoring Plans (PMPs) from current USAID Goal 3(G3) programs The analysis investigated current efforts tomeasure the impact of our work towards increasing equitableaccess to education in conflict and crisisshyaffected areas As acommunity of practice we are working in diverse contextsimplementing innovative approaches and surely making adifference in the lives of our beneficiaries But the indicators that we use could tell the story better Hereis what we found
Click here to read the rest of the blog
JICArsquos new Education Cooperation Strategy will provide more opportunities forlearningJICA Naoko Arakawa
In October 2015 Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) launched a new education positionpaper for the next five years following the major conferences to set the global education agenda and itsroadmap towards 2030
The paper firmly positions JICArsquos education support as anessential component to achieve human security while reaffirmingits commitment to playing an important role in implementing theSustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Education 2030Agenda With this position paper JICA will focus on four priorityareas
1 Quality education for learning improvement2 Education for fostering equitable and sustainable growth3 Education for knowledge coshycreation in societies4 Education for building inclusive and peaceful societies
Click to read the full blog post
EiE News Roundup
Read these and many more new articles every day inthe INEE Newsfeed A breakthrough for child refugeesProject Syndicate 5 February 2016Buried in the declaration from the justshycompleted fourth United NationsrsquoSyria Pledging Conference in London is a little publicized but importantpromise by next year every Syrian refugee child will be offered a place inschool The world at long last has taken seriously the need to provideeducation to conflictshyaffected children Up to this point global humanitarianaid targeting education has accounted for less than 2 of funds pledgedClick to read more
UNICEF Is Investing $9 Million In Open Source Tech Solutions For Children HuffPost Education 4 February 2016UNICEF wants to support innovative programs in a way that goes beyond large grants to nonprofits Thisweek it launched an Innovation Fund that will investmdashventureshycapital stylemdashin a number of startupsserving children in developing countries The agency will put $9 million toward earlyshystage startups that
3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
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3202016 INEE BishyWeekly Bulletin 16 February 2016
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focus on empowering young people with technology and providing realshytime data about underservedpopulations UNICEF is also looking to invest in startups that provide the necessary tech infrastructure tosupport these servicesClick to read more
Private sector commits $75 million to educate 1 million Syrian childrenGlobal Business Coalition for Education 4 February 2016UNICEF is launching a US$28 billion appeal to reach 43 million children in humanitarian emergenciesworldwide For the first time ever the largest portion of the appeal ndash 25 per cent ndash is going towardseducating children in emergencies This year UNICEF plans to dramatically increase the number ofchildren in crises who are given access to education ndash from 49 million at the beginning of 2015 to 82million in 2016 More than half shy 5 million ndash will be Syrian children inside the country or in neighbouringcountriesClick to read more
Syria Pledging Conference Commits Billions Prioritises Education The Huffington Post 4 February 2016The Sustainable Development Goals which the international community adopted in September includea commitment to provide every child with access to free primary and secondary education by 2030Finding the additional $20 billion per year or more that will needed to deliver on this commitment is oneof the central objectives of the International Commission on Financing Global Education OpportunityClick to read more
The IntershyAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of practitionersstudents teachers staff from UN agencies nonshygovernmental organizations donors governments anduniversities who work together to ensure all persons the right to quality relevant and safe educational
opportunities INEE is a vibrant and dynamic intershyagency forum that fosters collaborative resource developmentand knowledge sharing and informs policy through consensusshydriven advocacy
wwwineesiteorg
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