1. Sahel Emergency: A Coordinated Education Response

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

3. 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

4. Education Clusters in the Sahel

6. 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 of these people are internally displaced and are refugees neighboring countries.

7. 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

8. Sounding the Alarm

9. 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.

10. 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.