INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility 2011- 2013 constituted a new Working Group on Education and Fragility with a two-year mandate that built on the work of the first group in October 2011. The second meeting of the Working Group 2011-2013 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 26 to 27 March 2012.
INEE and partner organizations are aligned with the INEE Strategic Plan for 2011-2013. The first biannual meeting of the reconstituted Working Group took place in Brussels, Belgium from 20th to 21st October 2011 with the participation of 24 member organizations.
INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility was incorporated in the year 2008. It was first established within INEE as an inter-agency mechanism to coordinate diverse initiatives and catalyze collaborative action on issues relating to education and fragility. The group completed its three-year mandate at a final biannual meeting in March 2011 at their biannual meeting in October 2010. The members of the Working Group took the decision to continue to focus on education and fragility via a reconstituted Working Group. Working towards achievement of the INEE goal for 2011-2013 – the provision of quality, safe and relevant education for all is strengthened in crisis and crisis-prone contexts through prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Based on these objectives, the Working Group developed its Work Plan 2011-2013 around four main areas:
- Knowledge gathering and sharing: The Working Group will focus on gathering information on what its member-organizations know, and still need to know, in terms of education’s role in state- and peace-building, and conflict-sensitive approaches to education.
- Exploring engagement and learning opportunities: The Working Group will engage in different spaces for dialogue and information sharing with other sectors and thematic groups. This will provide joint learning opportunities and will contribute to the development of tools and methodologies to advance conflict-sensitive programming and planning in the education sector.
- Identifying opportunities for outreach: The Working Group will participate in dialogue fora and learning spaces related to education or other relevant sectors, to identify opportunities for collaboration that can enhance capacity building and the implementation of the tools developed by the Working Group.
The Working Group will develop a strategy and concrete tools for advocacy to influence decision-makers at all levels to enhance, promote and contribute to conflict-sensitive education in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
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