Crisis-sensitive educational planning
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Our crisis-sensitive educational planning approach involves identifying and analyzing the risks to education posed by armed conflicts, social and political unrest, and natural hazards, including those due to climate change. The goal is to safeguard learning, even during crises, and to help education systems prevent, prepare, and respond to risks.
- This includes planning for adaptation measures such as building climate-resilient schools or environmental sustainability measures.
- It also involves integrating crisis-related data into existing Education Management Information Systems (EMIS) to ensure evidence-informed crisis-sensitive planning.
- It promotes resilience and social cohesion by guaranteeing equitable access to quality education for everyone, including forcibly displaced populations.
Driven by countries’ needs, our work centres around three areas:
- Evidence-informed planning and policy development for crisis risk management including climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability.
- Access, analyse, and use of crisis-sensitive data and information, including climate, geospatial, and humanitarian data, for educational planning and monitoring.
- Planning for the inclusion of refugees and forcibly displaced populations in national education systems.
Educational planning can play a key role in strengthening the resilience of education systems, education personnel and learners. It can save lives and is cost-effective. Discover IIEP’s Education4Resilience portal, featuring the latest resources, tools, and news.
How can we protect learning for all?
A haven for children, a place where dreams are born and nurtured, where communities grow together, an investment in the future – these are a few reasons why schools should be protected. The harder question is how. How can education systems and their multiple players work together to make the learning communities more resilient and better prepared for both known risks and the unexpected?
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Our experts
Leonora MacEwen is a Senior Programme Specialist at IIEP and the Cluster Lead for IIEP’s work on Equity and Resilience. This includes working with countries on the development of sector plans, as well as risk analyses and risk reduction strategies for the education sector, and integrating climate change adaptation and conflict and disaster risk reduction into education sector analyses and planning documents. It also involves planning for the inclusion of forcibly displaced populations with ministries of education and their partners. Finally, this work includes planning for climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability, including enhancing ministries of education's capacities to access and use data and information on climate change, emergencies, and other relevant data for crisis-sensitive planning.
She has also designed and led the development of guidance, research, and training courses in this field. Most recently, this has included a series of country case studies and policy briefs on teacher management in refugee settings in East African countries and the Middle East.
Education
- MA in Comparative Development Studies, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- MA in Education Sciences (France), Paris V Université de Réné Descartes
Publications
- Planning is the starting point for climate-resilient education systems. 2022.
- Teacher Management in Refugee Settings: Ethiopia. 2020.
- Crisis-sensitive Educational Planning for Refugees and Host Communities in Ethiopia. 2019.
- Teachers of Refugees: A Review of the Literature. 2018.
- Burkina Faso: Integrating Conflict and Disaster Risk Reduction into an Education Sector Plan. 2016.
- What to Prioritize When Everything is a Priority? Crisis-sensitive Education Sector Planning in South Sudan. 2016.
- Overview: incorporating safety, resilience, and social cohesion in education sector planning. 2015.
Mathilde Tréguier is an Education Programme Specialist in IIEP’s Equity and Resilience Cluster, as part of the Technical Cooperation team.
Mathilde works on crisis-sensitive planning in the education sector, including planning for displaced populations and the inclusion of refugees into national education systems. She also works on enhancing capacities of Ministries of Education at central and subcentral levels to mainstream climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability into education sector analyses, policies, plans, and strategies.
Before joining IIEP in 2018, she worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, the Delegation of the European Union to Lebanon and Syria and a local peacebuilding organisation in Myanmar.
Education
- MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- MSc in Management from Ecole de Management de Lyon (EM Lyon Business School)
Emilie MARTIN joined IIEP-UNESCO Dakar in October 2017 as an Education Policy Analyst. She provides technical support to African countries in the preparation of their sector analyses and is also part of the team of the Programme to support the management of education quality in sub-Saharan Africa, which aims to analyse the quality of education from the perspective of its management and to support the implementation of targeted actions to accompany the change in practices for improving the quality of education systems.
Before joining IIEP, she worked as an analyst in the External Evaluations Department of the Ministry of Education of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Belgium) and as a researcher in the sociology of education with the Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME - Université Libre de Bruxelles).
Emilie holds a double Master's degree in Statistics (KU Leuven) and in Population and Development Sciences (Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB), as well as a Doctorate in Sociology of Education from ULB.
Diogo Amaro is a Programme Specialist in IIEP’s Technical Cooperation team. He contributes to IIEP’s work on crisis-sensitive educational planning and supports governments with the development of crisis risk management strategies for the education sector.
Before joining IIEP, Diogo has worked as a Programme Specialist at UNICEF (2018-2022) and OECD (2014-2018) providing support to the ministries of education of over a dozen countries. He has drafted a number of reports and has led several training workshops focusing on education data analysis.
Education
Diogo has a PhD in Education from the Institute of Education of the University College London (UCL) and a MSc in Economic Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has conducted academic research in various education topics using mixed methodology, including econometrics and qualitative research.
Ms. Thalia Séguin is an Associate Programme Specialist in IIEP’s Technical Cooperation team within the Equity and Resilience Cluster. She works on crisis-sensitive planning in the education sector, including planning for displaced populations.
She contributes to the implementation of IIEP’s crisis-sensitive educational planning programme, which aims to reinforce the capacities of ministries of education to prevent, prepare for, and respond to the risks facing education systems. She also has experience coordinating and facilitating online courses on topics such as crisis-sensitive planning, planning for the inclusion of refugees in national education systems, and education sector plan preparation and implementation. She represents IIEP on the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES).
In addition to her prior work at IIEP as Associate Project Editor, she contributed to the Institute’s research on school grants, and to the development of a set of resource booklets for educational planners on addressing safety, resilience, and social cohesion. Before joining IIEP in 2014, she worked as a Consultant for Save the Children Norway.
Education
- Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action from Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris)
Katja Hinz is an Education Program Specialist with the Technical Cooperation team, focusing on crisis-sensitive educational planning. Within the Equity and Resilience Cluster, she provides technical support on crisis risk reduction in the education sector and the planning for inclusion of displaced populations into national systems to Ministries of Education and partner organizations. Katja also delivers training on crisis-sensitive educational planning and conducts research, particularly on managing teachers in refugee contexts in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda.
Before this role, Katja contributed to various IIEP activities, including research on ethics and corruption in the education sector and support for the specialized course on school mapping.
She joined IIEP in 2014 as a Carlo-Schmid Fellow, following her work as a research assistant at the University of Bielefeld.
Education
- Master of Arts in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Bielefeld/Ecole Normale Supérieure.
- Political Science at the University of Zurich and Science Po Bordeaux.
Diana Ortiz is an Associate Education Programme Specialist at IIEP-UNESCO, where she is currently working on projects related to education, climate change and displacement.
Diana possesses over seven years of professional experience in data analysis to inform policy and planning in low- and middle-income countries. Since 2021, Diana has supported IIEP’s Technical Cooperation team in identifying and analyzing climate change effects on education in Liberia, South Sudan, Vietnam, Jordan, Cambodia, and Madagascar. Diana has also supported the Ministries of Education of Liberia and South Sudan in integrating climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability measures into their education sector plans.
Prior to joining IIEP, Diana was the Field Coordinator for the Colombia Mobile Victims Unit Impact Evaluation and a consultant at the World Bank, working on issues related to conflict and access to justice in Jordan and Colombia. She also worked as a Research Assistant at Rosario University on topics related to child labour and poverty.
Education
- M.A., International Public Management, Sciences Po, France
- M.A., Economics, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Publications
- Coury, D. and Ortiz, D. (no date) What is happening in early childhood classrooms in the Gambia? | Unesco IIEP Learning Portal. Available at: http://learningportal.iiep.unesco.org/en/blog/what-is-happening-in-early-childhood-classrooms-in-the-gambia (Accessed: 31 August 2023).
- HATHAWAY et al. (2016) Using Evidence to Build Effective Transitional Justice Policies in Colombia, World Bank Blogs. Available at: https://blogs.worldbank.org/latinamerica/using-evidence-build-effective-transitional-justice-policies-colombia (Accessed: 11 September 2023).
- MacEwen, L. et al. (2022) Planning is the starting point for climate-resilient education systems | Blog | Global Partnership for Education, GPE-Education for All blog. Available at: https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/planning-starting-point-climate-resilient-education-systems (Accessed: 31 August 2023).