Feminist activists across the globe are working arduously to champion education demands and to advocate for a future that prioritises financing for girls' secondary education, particularly in crisis contexts. We consulted with 94 girls, from four countries (Kenya, Palestine, Sierra Leone and Trinidad and Tobago), through 8 consultations.
The INEE Advocacy Toolkit aims to make it easier and faster for INEE members to find the tools they need to strengthen their vital work. It pulls together resources from across the education, humanitarian, and development sectors and presents them as clear, concise lists.
This brief summarizes the challenges that prevent access to post-secondary opportunities and highlights programs and people that are increasing refugee participation.
This study aimed to complement the migrants and refugees MSNA by providing up-to-date information on education and child protection needs of refugee and migrant children in Libya.
We are pleased to share with you the recording of a webinar on sharing the lessons learned during COVID-19 and the preparedness agenda for a university.
22 March 2022
Training Material
International Task Force on Teachers for Education 2030, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO), UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (UNESCO-IIEP)
This module aims to highlight the importance of crisis-sensitive teacher policies, in order to increase the resilience of education systems, ensuring education stakeholders are better able to prepare for and respond to crises.
This technical note broadly defines the scope of services that the social service workforce, if sufficiently resourced and supported, could provide working in or with schools. It also outlines the multi-agency child protection services in or linked to schools that governments and ministries of education should support in order to uphold children’s right to learning and protection from violence.
This issue of JEiE presents empirical research, theory-building, and cutting-edge field notes that are organically driven by the priorities of EiE researchers and practitioners.
Author Augustino Ting Mayai examines the effects the civil war in South Sudan had on primary school enrollment during the first four years of the conflict. He argues that cumulative lost school years among students in war-affected communities in South Sudan pose long-term socioeconomic consequences, such as the stymied development of human capital.
In a study of 7,191 Syrian children, authors Grace Anyaegbu, Caroline Carney, Holly-Jane Howell, Alaa Zaza, and Abdulkader Alaeddin report lower literacy levels among children with one cognitive or psychosocial difficulty (as determined by the Washington Group Questions). Children with two or more such difficulties were less likely to progress as far on an eight-milestone literacy pathway.
Reflecting on the feasibility of ed tech solutions for out-of-school children, authors Jasmine S. Turner, Karine Taha, Nisreen Ibrahim, Koen I. Neijenhuijs, Eyad Hallak, Kate Radford, Hester Stubbé-Alberts, Thomas de Hoop, Mark J.D. Jordans, and Felicity L. Brown report significant effects on numeracy and self-esteem among 390 children in Lebanon who took part in a digital game-based intervention.
Authors Maria Paulina Arango-Fernández and Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski share insights from 20 Colombian ex-combatants engaged in TVET. They find that some forms of TVET may support social cohesion while other forms reinforce exclusion, but few TVET experiences addressed ex-combatants’ feelings of stigmatization. They recommend pairing TVET with economic support to encourage reintegration.
Authors Liliana Angélica Ponguta, Kathryn Moore, Divina Varghese, Sascha Hein, Angela Ng, Aseel Fawaz Alzaghoul, Maria Angélica Benavides Camacho, Karishma Sethi, and Majd Al-Soleiti uncover root causes behind low ECD access in EiE settings: low prioritization across sectors, little systematic mapping of the institutional and programmatic landscape, and limited consensus on strategic advocacy.
Calling on readers to reflect on the power of youth as agents for peace, author Mieke T. A. Lopes Cardozo brings together an education rights framework with a framework for sustainable peacebuilding in EiE contexts to advance a new notion of the role of education that transgresses current models for students’ participation in tackling big issues, such as climate change and social justice.
Authors Elizabeth Buckner, Daniel Shephard, and Anne Smiley examine how EiE professionals use data and what makes data “useful” to them. While global-level actors emphasized strategic data uses and local-level actors, operational uses, respondents at all levels elaborated on nontechnical factors (e.g., the politics of data) that influence the availability and perceived usefulness of EiE data.
Highlighting the potential of community-driven nonformal education models to reach displaced students, author Maryam Jillani examines the innovative community mobilization and capacity-building approach that Creative Associates International adopted to provide access to education for more than 80,000 learners in northern Nigeria.
Writing prior to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, authors Susan Ayari, Agatha J. van Ginkel, Janet Shriberg, Benjamin Gauley, and Sarah Maniates reflect on the partnership between Afghan Children Read and the Afghanistan Ministry of Education to integrate SEL principles into early grade reading curricula for students and into preservice and in-service training for teachers.
Paul O’Keeffe interviews Dieu Merci Luundo, the founder of Vijana Twaweza Youth Club, an internationally recognized, award-winning program Luundo founded to combat climate change and poor nutrition in Kakuma refugee camp. He describes the organization’s accomplishments, growth, and basis in sustainable development and permaculture.
