This framing paper for the 2008 INEE Policy Roundtable provides analysis, lessons learnt and recommendations on the financing of education in states affected by fragility.

This paper exploits unique information on cognitive ability to examine the importance of schooling and non-schooling cognitive skills for heterogeneous individuals using instrumental variables estimation. Using a binary instrument based on the 1981 reform in Chile, the authors find that the main beneficiaries of the reform were those who at the time were pupils in basic schooling.

The Outcome Report includes the framing papers that were prepared for each objective in advance of the roundtable as well as the recommendations generated by each working group.

This article argues for a higher priority to be given to education in times of crisis, including funding, and outlines the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). A case study is included describing the priority of education in Sierra Leone for Liberian refugees.

More than half of the world’s 103,5 million out-of school children live in countries affected by, or recovering from, emergencies. This thesis focuses on one of the most serious impediments to the provision of quality education in situations of emergency and reconstruction: the lack of donor commitment and funding.

This 60-page report is based on interviews with hundreds of children in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch investigations in more than 20 countries found that school fees and related education costs, the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, discrimination, violence and other obstacles.

This summary paper was prepared by Levin and Dollar for the DAC Learning and Advisory Process on Difficult Partnerships. The previous study was from 1992-2002 and this study paper was prepared in 2005. This paper summarizes the findings of data analysis conducted for the DAC LAP on aid allocations in difficult partnerships.

The objective of the UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT data collection on education statistics is to provide internationally comparable data on key aspects of education systems, specifically on the participation and completion of education programmes, as well as the cost and type of resources dedicated to education.

This study looks at coordination dynamics through two situations: coordination for a country (Sierra Leone in the 1990s) and coordination for refugee camps (Rwandan refugees in Ngara District, Tanzania). This Occasional Paper # 140 is one of the final publications by the Humanitarianism and War Project at the Watson Institute at Brown University.