11.Education in Emergencies

11.1 Education In Emergencies: Conflict Zones

11.1.1 International Network for Education in Emergencies

SpeakerName: Mr. Dean Brooks, Director, International Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), New York, USA Description: This presentation shared the realities conflict has on education and the efforts made to address the situation. There are still 58 million...

11.1.2 Education in Emergencies: The UNRWA experience

SpeakerName: Dr. Caroline Pontefract, Director of Education Department, United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), Headquarters, Amman, Jordan Description: This presentation concludes with highlighting and asserting that UNRWA’s integrated approach to the...

11.1.3 Innovations in Education: Access for Out-of-School Children in Afghanistan

SpeakerName: Mr. Abdul Bashir Khaliqi, Managing Director, Afghan Association for Adult Education (ANAFAE), Afghanistan Description: According to the UN data used in the latest Education Sector Analysis (January 2016), Afghanistan’s population is the second youngest in...

11.1.4 Accelerated Education Working Group: Widening access, raising standards

SpeakerName: Ms. Laetitia Lemaistre, Education Specialist, UNHCR Description: 'Children and youth affected by conflict are particularly disadvantaged when it comes to educational access. Globally, half of the world’s out-of-school children-–over 58 million...

11.2 Education in Emergencies: Natural Disasters

11.2.1 Rebuilding Hope in Eastern Visayas

SpeakerName: Dr. Luisa Bautista-Yu, Regional Director, Department of Education, Philippines Description: This presentation reported that the Bangon DepEd Task Force and the Education Cluster were created to focus on three primary areas (access, quality, and...

11.2.2 Empowerment and recovery process of the children evacuated from the disaster stricken area

SpeakerName: Mr. Ichinose Tomonori, Professor, Miyagi University of Education, Japan Description: This presentation reported on the reconstruction assistance project, which Miyagi University of Education (MUE) led in collaboration with the local community and NGOs....

11.2.3 Nepal Earthquake 2015: Emergency and Early Recovery

SpeakerName: Mr. Baikunta Prasad Aryal, Planning Department of Education, Government of Nepal Description: This presentation shared how phased education recovery efforts were led by the government and co-lead by UNICEF and Save the Children. Phase I was first...

11.2.4 Emergency Psychosocial Support for Secondary School-aged Students Affected by Typhoon Yolanda in the Philippines

SpeakerName: Dr. Mee Young Choi, Head of Education Unit, UNESCO Jakarta, Indonesia Description: This presentation highlighted that, in partnership with UNESCO, the Philippines Department of Education published the teacher’s manual, Supporting, Enabling and Empowering...

11.Education in Emergencies

11.1 Education In Emergencies: Conflict Zones

11.2 Education in Emergencies: Natural Disasters

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