Summary Report of the Workshop on Promising Practices for Protecting Education from Attack and Schools from Military Use

This report summarizes what, according to Workshop participants, are promising practices in protecting education from attack and highlights emergent considerations and challenges in implementing different protective measures.

The Workshop brought together more than 75 field practitioners, program managers, and Ministry of Education (MoE) officials who comprised country teams from 11 different countries: Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Somalia, and South Sudan. Additionally, practitioners from Nepal and Sudan as well as resource persons representing international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and UN agencies that work within and across several countries participated in the Workshop.