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Not from Scratch: Lessons Learned about how education programming can promote and undermine resilience, from the Individual through the systemic level

Wed, March 25, 11:45am to 1:15pm EDT (11:45am to 1:15pm EDT), Hyatt Regency Miami, Floor: 24, Petite Suite #3

Proposal

This presentation will build on the conceptual framework put forward in the USAID white paper, and the focus on transformation shared by the World Bank. Using a case study format, it will point toward the potential of resilience-explicit education programming by highlighting promising elements and lessons learned from past and current education programming that includes resilience-building elements, but doesn’t include an explicit resilience frame. First the USAID IDEJEN/Haiti case study will describe Idejen’s role in facilitating youth and community resilience gains and the limits of these gains in face of the 2010 earthquake. It will offer hindsight suggestions for how the international community might have better leveraged IDEJEN’s resilience-building assets, had there been a resilience frame in place. Next, the USAID MyDev/Mindanao case study will highlight the resilience-building effects of community youth development alliances and ‘personal resilience’ training for youth at risk of violent extremism. It will explore the potential of these elements to have a broader social impact. Finally, the Affordable Non-State Schools case study, based on research commissioned through ECCN, will look at the role of low cost private schools in supporting community resilience in Nigeria and El Salvador and explore how resilience-explicit programming in these contexts could build on such schools to enhance overall social cohesion, when combined with systems-level education support.

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