Joint Education and Child Protection Needs Assessment: Central African Republic

This assessment was conducted as part of a Global Education Cluster (GEC) and Global Child Protection Area of Responsibility (GCPAoR) project funded by the Bureau of Humanitarian Affairs (BHA) to strengthen joint needs assessments. Following a global, remote training on joint needs assessments in February 2023, the Education Cluster and Child Protection Area of Responsibility in Central African Republic worked with global support to develop a joint analysis framework and collect existing secondary data. This was followed by deployments of a Needs Assessment Specialist and remote support from a Child Safeguarding and Accountability Specialist between April and June 2023 to finalize the assessment framework, define the scope, train partners in data collection and, finally, coordinate the data collection. Primary data collection was conducted in June 2023. The analysis of findings was done collectively between the Education Cluster and CPAoR in country, and their members, with support from the GEC and GCPAoR. The report has been extensively consulted with partners and validated by the Ministry of Education.