This webinar introduces the landscape of publicly available EiE data from development, humanitarian, population movement, and conflict data sources, examining the similarities and differences of data across the humanitarian and development sectors. The presentation shares the MEERS project’s draft EiE data usage framework, which includes six usage categories. Finally, the webinar briefly introduces the humanitarian response system’s data collection and dissemination processes, followed by a high-level overview of the educational development data ecosystem.

The second webinar in this series focuses on educational development data and its relevance to EiE. The webinar begins with an introduction to the educational development data ecosystem, examining sources and availability of data. Next, the webinar provides in-depth looks into six sources of educational development data. Overviews of each source includes discussions of their pros and cons for EiE practitioners with integrated navigation activities. The webinar concludes with a discussion of how these sources of educational development data can be used for EiE.

The third webinar in this series begins with a brief recap of the humanitarian response system and its implications for EiE data. This recap includes an overview of key actors in humanitarian education response, as well as key concepts including humanitarian programme cycle outputs, data collection and reporting mechanisms, data dashboards, and humanitarian data quality issues. Multiple sources of humanitarian education data are discussed, including UN OCHA, Education Clusters, and UNHCR’s Operational Data Portal.

INEE hosted a multi-part webinar series from the USAID Middle East Education Research, Training, and Support (MEERS) program, implemented by Social Impact and FHI 360. The series titled “The 4Ws of Education in Emergencies (EiE) Data: Who has What data? Where can I find it? And Why is this so complicated?”.