Presenter 1

• In Event: How Risk Analyses Informed Education Programming as War Continues into Its Fourth Year

Proposal

The first panelist will overview the new RERA Toolkit, including key improvements on the beta version (2015) and selected lessons from field implementation.
Through its Education Strategy, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) committed to work with partners to increase equitable access to education for learners living in countries affected by conflict and crisis. Achieving results in these challenging environments calls for innovative approaches to the design, management, and evaluation of education programs. USAID’s Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) Education in Crisis and Conflict Team released its new Rapid Education and Risk Analysis (RERA) Toolkit in order to support the critical first step of better understanding the situation of education systems and learners and their complex and volatile contexts.
The RERA is an adaptable, “good enough” situation analysis of education systems, learners, and their communities as a dynamic system of relationships involving assets and multiple contextual risks. A RERA integrates key methodological elements of a rapid education needs assessment and contextual risk analyses, such as conflict analysis, disaster risk assessment and resilience analysis. A RERA investigates how risks impact the school community, how education influences risks, and how contextual risks influence each other. A RERA involves both secondary and primary data collection, and is adaptable to context and can be can carried out in the field in as little as two (2) to three (3) weeks.

Author

• James Rogan, Exterion/USAID ECCN