Transforming Systems in Times of Adversity: Education and Resilience; White Paper

This white paper was commissioned to provide USAID, including Missions, Regional Bureaus, Pillar Bureaus, and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), with an overview of global and Agency thinking and practice on education and resilience and a foundation and justification for positioning USAID education efforts more concretely within a resilience frame.
The white paper is organized into three key sections. The first section outlines the business case for resilience, explaining how and why resilience is an important consideration for education programs to consider in contexts of crisis and conflict and how education is well poised as a sector to contribute to strengthening resilience. The second section presents a conceptual framework for understanding how resilience operates through and within the education sector and program interventions. The third section provides a series of key considerations for developing and supporting USAID education programs with a resilience lens or focus.