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Listening to the Voices of Internally Displaced Communities to Achieve Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education Year of publication: 2021 Author: Caroline Keenan Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This paper outlines the real-life day-to-day challenges young IDPs experience when seeking access to quality education, which is fundamental to their healthy development and future life chances. It reflects the perspectives of teachers who have been displaced, and the challenges they have faced both personally and professionally in attempting to support the learning of children and young people in their communities. Young IDPs and internally displaced teachers shared these experiences in a series of five roundtable events hosted by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) in March and April 2021. The paper also provides insights from other roundtable participants, including education in emergencies (EiE) practitioners, government representatives, United Nations (UN) staff, members of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and local civil so- ciety, and other stakeholders who are working to support access to education in displaced communities. They all are calling for taking urgent and concrete action to ensure access to quality education for internally displaced children and young people. The United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel has a unique opportunity to influence the changes needed to achieve this. The recommendations made in the panel’s final report to the Secretary-General and United Nations Member States will be critical to the future outcomes of millions of children and young people around the world. 
Mind the Gap: The State of Girls’ Education in Crisis and Conflict Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This report summarizes progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities in improving education and training for girls and women affected by conflict and crisis. The report aims to support the Charlevoix Declaration on Quality Education’s commitment to enhance the evidence base and monitor progress toward gender-equitable education in crises. The report draws from data on 44 crisis-affected countries, from recent research, and from a set of case studies of interventions in a range of crisis-affected contexts. 
Girls’ Education and Climate Change: Investing in Education for Resilience Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief was developed to support dissemination of key messages in Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. It provides an overview of evidence and gaps on the relationship between girls’ education and climate crises, and recommends actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change on girls’ education and promote resilience. 
Promoting Climate-Sensitive Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief addresses a gap in climate change and education literature: young children who are affected by crises. Climate mitigation and adaptation efforts often exclude early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially in crises and emergencies. Therefore, the brief outlines multisectoral ECCE interventions that can serve as solutions to broader climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. These interventions look at long-term solutions that reduce children’s exposure to climate change risks. The aim of these long-term solutions is to create new climate-adapted ways of thinking, being, and doing by focusing on care – for each other and for the earth – and by building climate resilience among children and their supporting care systems. 
[Video] Preventing Violent Extremism (English w/subtitles) Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) The number of violent extremist attacks committed across the world has increased sharply in recent years. And there are more attacks on schools and students than ever before. So, why is this happening and what can be done to change this pattern?The Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) has developed a whiteboard video to illustrate education’s role in preventing violent extremism (PVE). The 5-minute video -- available in English, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Portuguese -- looks at some definitions of PVE and education’s role in fostering inclusive and equitable environments, encouraging critical thinking, promoting tolerance and respect for diversity, and thereby contributing to wider social cohesion and the reduction of violence in all forms.For further information on education and PVE, please visit the INEE website (www.ineesite.org/preventing-violent-extremism), where you can find key activities and resources, including a curated catalogue of PVE resources. 
INEE Thematic Paper: An Introduction to Education and Preventing Violent Extremism Year of publication: 2017 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This paper was conceptualized and developed by the INEE Education Policy Working Group subgroup on Youth, Violence and Peacebuilding. Though there remains limited consensus on how to define violent extremism, this paper highlights some of the more commonly used concepts and working definitions, presents current thinking and up-to-date research, and provides some examples of how education can contribute to preventing violent extremism. INEE does not take a particular stance.The paper is the most recent addition to the INEE’s work gathering resources on education and preventing violent extremism (PVE) from around the world, which may help policy-makers, teachers, principals, trainers, and researchers understand better the link between education and violent extremism and promote the positive ‘face’ of education. 
Creating Change: Advocacy Toolkit for Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2021 Author: Eleanor Gall Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) 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. The resources listed have been selected in response to a survey of INEE members’ needs, and in acknowledgement of the diverse emergency contexts in which INEE members work. While this resource is aimed primarily at INEE members working at a national level, we hope it will be helpful to any organization or individual who advocates for—or wants to advocate for —EiE at a local, regional, or global level. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it does provide extensive options, ideas, and inspiration for impactful, sustainable, advocacy that can help to ensure a quality, safe, andrelevant education for all who live in emergency and crisis contexts. 
Background paper: Coordination between Humanitarian and Development Work in the Education Sector: Working Together in a Crisis Context Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) The education sector is charged with a responsibility to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, per Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). The current trend of complex and longer-term crises, whether caused by the climate emergency, violent conflict, or a pandemic, threatens progress toward SDG4 targets. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, no country or education system is immune from crisis; therefore, building resilience is the key not only to avoiding losses but to sustaining and progressing toward our shared goals in the education sector. Collective action is needed across the humanitarian-development spectrum to build inclusive and adaptable education systems that are prepared for and have the capacity to respond to crises, so that every child and young person has a chance to go to school, stay in school, and complete a full cycle of primary and secondary education.This report is aimed at members of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), which includes a broad range of humanitarian, development, government, and civil society actors who are working to ensure that all individuals have the right to a quality, safe, relevant, and equitable education. The purpose of the report is to demystify the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and to propose a set of actions and recommendations to strengthen such coherence in the education sector. The report also provides guidelines for INEE members and education stakeholders to take collective action, and to advocate for improved coherence within their own agencies and across the education sector’s full spectrum of policy and programming.This report recapitulates the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and why it is critical, provides an overview of barriers to coherence in the education sector, identifies illustrative examples of coherent action, and offers concrete recommendations for improved coherence, as summed up through a “Learn-Convene-Adapt” framework.To explain the concept of humanitarian-development coherence, this paper adopts the New Ways of Working definition, which describes humanitarian-development coherence as working over multiple years toward collective outcomes, based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors (see definitions, p. 6). The paper argues that humanitarian-development coherence is critical to ensuring that all children have access to uninterrupted quality education, which promotes their increased resilience and overall development. While education can provide significant benefits for individuals, communities, and countries, establishing resilient education systems requires multi-year planning, coordination, and investment in the education sector.To unpack the bottlenecks to coherence in education, the paper uses the conceptual framework proposed in the USAID white paper, Education and Humanitarian-Development Coherence (Nicolai et al., 2019). This framework outlines three levels of action that influence conditions for coherence: Norms, Capacities, and Operations. The barriers identified and explored in the paper are the following: 
Creating an Enabling Non-formal Education Environment for Adolescents and Youth: Issues and Considerations for Crisis and Conflict Setting Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This policy brief offers recommendations to strengthen the policy environment within which non-formal education is delivered and highlights key considerations for those planning, designing and implementing non-formal programmes that seek to meet the core education and skill development challenges faced by out-of-school adolescents and youth, particularly those affected by conflict, crisis, or forced displacement. 
Gender Training Manual: INEE Guidance Note on Gender; Gender Equality in and Through Education Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This training manual outlines 4-8 hours of training activities and materials related to gender-responsive education in emergencies. These training materials include guidance for facilitators (including key concepts, activity instructions, and discussion guides), presentation slides, and activity handouts for participants. Facilitators are encouraged to first review the instructions prior to training, which provides guidance for contextualization of the training resources.