The INEE Minimum Standards and related tools to support quality education and build resilience in fragile contexts

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The INEE Minimum Standards and related tools to
support quality education and build resilience in
fragile contexts
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INEEs Mission To serve as an open global
network of members working together within a
humanitarian and development framework to ensure
all persons the right to quality education and a
safe learning environment in emergencies and
post-crisis recovery

• All people have access to quality, relevant and
  safe education opportunities
• Education services are integrated into all
  humanitarian response and policy
• Governments and donors ensure sustainable funding
  for education preparedness, crisis response,
  mitigation and recovery
• All education programs responding to emergencies,
  chronic crises and reconstruction are consistent
  with the INEE Minimum Standards

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INEE Minimum Standards Handbook and Toolkit

• Harmonised framework across actors for safe
  access to quality education
• Tool to bridge gaps between preparedness,
  response recovery
• Cross Cutting Issues
• Human, childrens rights
• Gender
• Disability and vulnerability
• HIV/AIDS

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INEE Minimum Standards Implementation (2005 -
2009)

• Used in over 80 countries, translated into 15
  Languages
• Over 2,500 trained through regional Training and
  Capacity-Building workshops
• Evaluations, feedback reveals that the Minimum
  Standards
• Represent a common starting point to enhance
  educational quality, access, and accountability
• Enforce holistic, quality response
• Improve coordination and enhance predictability
• Support capacity-building and training
• Strengthen the resilience of Ministries of
  Education risk reduction, preparedness and
  response
• Promote education -- internally and externally

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INEE Minimum Standards Implementation to support
sector planning FTI examples

• Emergency preparedness within sector plans INEE
  Minimum Standards training workshops to improve
  the management and coordination of education
  activities in Sierra Leone (Ministry of
  Education, Youth and Sports and partners), should
  an emergency occur
• Cross-border programming within sector plans
  Cross-border training workshop focused on the
  application of the INEE Minimum Standards
  (government education officials, UN, NGOs) as a
  means to discuss cross-border programming for
  emergency preparedness, response, recovery
• Implementing national standards and undertaking
  capacity mapping at District level in Uganda,
  INEE indicators and guidance notes built upon to
  develop strategies to make progress towards
  national goals and targets help to conduct
  capacity-mapping to ensure holistic, quality
  interventions

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Other INEE tools to strengthen knowledge,
capacity and institutional coordination to ensure
education for all

• INEE Guidance Notes on Teacher Compensation in
  Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and
  Post-Crisis Recovery provide a suggested
  framework for compensating teachers around
• Policy and Coordination of Teacher
  Compensation
• Management and Financial Aspects of Teacher
  Compensation
• Teachers' Motivation, Support, Supervision
• INEE-World Bank Safer School Construction
  Guidance Notes
• Information brief on effective financing for
  education in fragile contexts -- a modality
  analysis (in development)
• Country-specific case studies to build the
  evidence base what works to build resilience,
  mitigate fragility through education?

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Recommendation FTI mainstream INEE tools in
guidelines and policies provide tools and
technical assistance to governments and partners
to ensure

• Quality education is within humanitarian
  response, policy and financing
• Education sector plans, policies and budgets
  includes preparedness, mitigation and emergency
  response
• Improve coordination within and among them donors
  
• Examples CIDA, Norwegian government use INEE
  Minimum Standards across internal divides and
  among external actors

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Utilise INEEs resources, contribute to the
network www.ineesite.org www.ineesite.org/join
INEE Minimum Standards www.ineesite.org/minimumst
andards INEE Minimum Standards toolkit
www.ineesite.org/toolkit Implementation tools
www.ineesite.org/implementation INEE Guidance
Notes on Teacher Compensation www.ineesite.org/te
achercomp INEE Guidance Notes on Safer School
Construction www.ineesite.org/saferschoolconstruc
tion INEE Working Group on Education and
Fragility www.ineesite.org/educationandfragility