INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility

In early 2008, a Working Group on Education and Fragility 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.

INEE Working Group on Education and Fragility 2011- 2013

In October 2011, INEE and partner organizations constituted a new Working Group on Education and Fragility with a two-year mandate that built on the work of the first group, and is aligned with the INEE Strategic Plan for 2011-2013. The first biannual meeting of the reconstituted Working Group took place in Brussels, Belgium from 20-21 October 2011 with the participation of 25 member organizations.

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 – the goal and objectives of the new Working Group are:

Based on these objectives, the Working Group developed its Work Plan 2011-2013 around four main areas:

1. 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. 
2. 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.
3. 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. 
4. Advocacy:  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.

Click the link to download the Work Plan to be undertaken by the Working Group during the two-year mandate.

Click the link to download the Minutes of the First Biannual Meeting of the Working Group 2011-2013, held in Brussels in October 2011.

Click the link to read the Working Group Terms of Reference 2011-2013.

The membership of the Working Group on Education and Fragility (2011-2013) includes:

  • American Institutes for Research (AIR), represented by Grace Akukwe
  • Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), represented by Jessica Oliver
  • Center for Universal Education, Brookings Institute, represented by Rebecca Winthrop
  • CfBT Education Trust, represented by Susy Ndaruhutse
  • Comic Relief, represented by Kamela Usmani
  • Commonwealth Secretariat, represented by Florence Malinga
  • Creative Associates International (CAI), represented by Jane Millar Wood
  • Education Development Center (EDC), represented by Sarah Nogueira Sanca
  • European Commission, represented by Emily Oldmeadow
  • Family Health International (FHI) Development 360 (formerly Academy for Educational Development), represented by Mary Joy Pigozzi
  • GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), represented by Ronja Hoelzer
  • IBIS, represented by Karina Kleivan
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC), represented by Jennifer Sklar
  • Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented by Corien Sips
  • Save the Children, represented by Martha Hewison
  • UK Department for International Development (DfID), represented by Morag Baird
  • UNESCO - International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), represented by Lyndsay Bird
  • UN Interagency Framework Team for Preventive Action, represented by Bautista A. Logioco
  • UNHCR, represented by Ita Sheehy
  • UNICEF, represented by Jordan Naidoo
  • United States Institute for Peace (USIP), represented by Elizabeth Cole
  • University of Florence, represented by Giovanni Scotto
  • Comparative, International & Development Education Centre, University of Toronto, represented by Sarah Dryden-Petersen
  • University of York, represented by Frank Hardman
  • USAID, represented by Yolande Miller-Grandvaux


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The second meeting of the Working Group 2011-2013 will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 26 - 27 March 2012.

• Please click for more information on the Working Group 2008-2011.

• Please click to read the Note from the Working Group on Education and Fragility on Terminology.