INEE Knowledge & Evidence Team

INEE is in the process of designing and adopting a new operating model that meaningfully shifts the center of gravity from global to local and challenges power structures in EiE. As part of this process INEE’s vision, approach, and work on knowledge and evidence will shift too, we will update this page accordingly.

INEE's Approach

We believe the best way to improve Education in Emergencies is to ensure that decision makers from the classroom to national systems and the global aid architecture have access to trustworthy and quality information.

INEE takes a system strengthening approach. Guided by the INEE Strategic Framework (2024 – 2030), specifically Strategic Priority 4 aimed at promoting the ethical production, sharing, and uptake of EiE data and evidence. INEE plays a critical role in the sector to strengthen the data and evidence lifecycle. We work to:

1. Encourage the ethical production of data and evidence

Despite efforts to increase the production of data and evidence in EiE, many gaps remain and attempts to tackle these gaps rarely meaningfully address power asymmetries in the EiE evidence ecosystem and the wider sector. INEE promotes and encourages addressing these gaps through a diverse range of approaches that centre ethics and accountability. INEE enables the generation of high quality data on holistic learning and development through The Measurement Library, and supports the ethical production and open access publication of diverse research on EiE through The Journal on Education in Emergencies.

2. Curate, synthesize, and broker existing evidence

Significant amounts of the spending on EiE is not guided by quality evidence on what we know about teaching, learning, wellbeing, and safety. The evidence base is growing, but a considerable amount of existing EiE evidence is not widely and freely accessible with challenges persisting around evidence synthesis, translation, and use. INEE, with its members and partners working on strengthening evidence synthesis, is playing an important role in making EiE evidence, in its diverse forms, easier to access, understand, and use through the development and maintenance of our Evidence Platform.

3. Strengthen evidence uptake and use

Evidence that fails to reach decision-makers cannot be used to meaningfully improve outcomes for learners. This gap is particularly significant as resources for evidence generation in EiE become increasingly stretched. INEE therefore recognizes the urgent need to support the uptake and use of existing evidence in decision-making. Through our partnership with the Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) programme, INEE makes new evidence accessible to global and regional audiences through events and synthesis products, provides translations to ensure access across languages, and situates ERICC findings within the broader landscape of education and EiE research. These efforts aim to ensure that evidence reaches those who need it most for critical decision-making.

4. Convene for a coherent data and evidence ecosystem

Over the years, INEE has convened the EiE community for important strategic discussions on strengthening the data and evidence ecosystem. Drawing from INEE’s convening efforts dating back to the 2019 EiE Data: A Long-Term Vision and Action Agenda and including the 2023 Data & Evidence Summit, INEE recently published the Data & Evidence Action Agenda. The agenda articulates a vision for strengthening the education in emergencies (EiE) data and evidence ecosystem, outlines three critical areas for collective action, and offers specific recommendations to achieve the vision.