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Humanitarian-Development Coherence in Education: A Conceptual Framework and Recommendations for the U.S. Government

Mon, April 15, 10:00 to 11:30am, Hyatt Regency, Floor: Bay (Level 1), Seacliff B

Proposal

In 2017-18, the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) was commissioned by the Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN) to develop a White Paper for USAID’s Education in Crisis and Conflict office, to provide an overview of humanitarian-development coherence efforts within the education sector globally, with a focus on the U.S. government. The White Paper put forward a conceptual framework that outlines both the drivers of the humanitarian-development divide and opportunities for coherence, and then uses this framework to structure the mapping and analysis of U.S. government efforts on education and humanitarian-development coherence. The methodology for the paper included a background literature review; interviews with some 20 global, regional, and country-level U.S. government staff members between December 2017 and March 2018; and an iterative process of development of the conceptual framework. Based on the findings presented above, the paper makes the following recommendations to the U.S. government:

1. Strengthen high-level U.S. government support for education in emergencies and protracted crises.
2. Ensure that the new (2018) U.S. government-wide Strategy on International Basic Education and the USAID Education Policy include coherent approaches across humanitarian and development contexts.
3. Champion education’s contributions to collective outcomes.
4. Leverage the USAID Education in Crisis and Conflict Learning Agenda.
5. Invest in understanding and defining links between education and resilience.
6. Develop tools, capacity, and processes to address U.S. government humanitarian-development coherence and strengthen related knowledge management.
7. Establish an approach for a specialized education surge capacity in and before crises.
8. Ensure education sector assessments have an approach that considers coherence in the collection and analysis of primary and secondary data.
9. Ensure that U.S. government funding mechanisms facilitate coherence, offering flexibility, pivoting, and contingencies.
10. Provide inter-agency leadership for the education sector in strengthening humanitarian-development coherence.

In this presentation, Susan Nicolai, lead author of the White Paper, will share an overview of the research process, describe the conceptual framework and major findings from the research, and discuss the paper’s major recommendations.

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