The Second Global Inter-Agency Consultation on Education in Emergencies and Early Recovery
December 2-4 2004
Cape Town, South Africa
INEE and its United Nations and NGO partners will host the second Global
Inter-Agency Consultation on Education in Emergencies and Early Recovery.
The first Inter-Agency Consultation in 2000, convened in Geneva as follow
up to recommendations made at the World Education Forum in Dakar,
established INEE to facilitate collaboration and advocacy focused on
expanding access to quality education for all people affected by crisis and
conflict. INEE has since become a network of over to 800 individual
members, developed and disseminated guidance and technical tools, and
actively engaged in advocacy with a broad range of stakeholders.
Although education is recognized as an essential component of humanitarian
and early reconstruction efforts, much still remains to be done. Over 60
million children and youth are estimated to be out of school due to
conflict and thousands more lack access to education due to natural
disasters. With this in mind, donors, practitioners, affected populations
and education experts will assemble to advocate for the right to education
in emergency situations, share good practices and programme strategies and
review INEE’s purpose and direction.
The Global Consultation is open to all interested parties, with
representation ranging from members of NGOs, UN agencies, academics and
researchers, individuals, donors and governments and communities. The
Consultation will provide a dynamic forum to:
1) Examine the current status and developments in the field of Education
in Emergencies and identify emerging issues, with a focus on key concerns
such as girls’ education and the prevention of HIV/AIDS;
2) Identify gaps in both the responses of key actors and in available
research;
3) Review INEE’s key areas of work, such as advocacy, networking and
information-sharing, and the development of the Minimum Standards for
Education in Emergencies;
4) Launch the final INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies
and take next steps toward the promotion and implementation of the
standards; and,
5) Develop INEE’s strategic direction and priorities for its future work.
Participants will discuss and share information both at the global and
policy levels and at the practice and implementation levels. Examples of
issues to be discussed include, but are not limited to:
Global Policy and Strategy
- INEE—strategic direction and priorities for its future work
- Advocacy
- Coordination
- Prevention/Preparedness/Planning Practice and Implementation
- Curriculum /Language/Certification/Accreditation
- School Feeding and education food programmes
- Demobilisation, Disarmament and Rehabilitation
- Education and protection
- Life skills and civic education, including education for conflict
prevention
Additional details about the Global Consultation and INEE are available
at: http://www.ineesite.org/about/global_consult04.asp
You can learn more about INEE and become a member by visiting:
www.ineesite.org or by emailing: [log in to unmask]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the
Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies
Centre (RSC), University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the
views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or
re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts
should include attribution to the original sources.
List archives are available at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html
|