Sahel Emergency: A Coordinated Education Response

The Importance of Coordination Inter-sector coordination Humanitarian coordination Cross-border coordination Coordination with partners Coordination with the donor community

Even in a Drought… Education systems need to be strengthened to ensure: schools are able to accommodate children who have become displaced schools and temporary learning spaces include quality learning with training for teachers and school managers, provision of teaching materials and lessons to build resilience and increase preparedness back-to-school campaigns target the most vulnerable raising awareness to mobilise parents and communities schools stay open during school breaks to continue feeding programmes and provide ‘catch-up’ opportunities for those who have missed school and/or exams

Education Clusters in the Sahel

Support for the Malian Refugees Since the beginning of the crisis and the conflict in the north, about 412,401 people have been forced to flee north. 203.8431 of these people are internally displaced and are refugees 208.5582 neighboring countries.

Gandafabou Refugee Camp Combined Child Protection and Education Response Communication between Burkina Faso and Mali Remedial education classes being offered Support for transition to education School structures built Community awareness activities Focus on ECD

Sounding the Alarm

Recommendations Manage the risks, not the crisis Make education a key part of an integrated approach focused on meeting children’s needs. Secure essential humanitarian funding for education interventions in slow-onset emergencies. Close the gap between humanitarian and development planning and funding for education.

Access to good quality education is not only every child’s right; it is vital to bringing an end to generational cycles of poverty, and to encouraging economic growth and stability.