Policy Roundtables

Roundtable on Education Finance for States Affected by Fragility

Date: Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 October 2008

Venue: European Commission, Brussels

Sponsors: The European Commission (EC), and supported by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

For more information about this Roundtable, including the Framing Paper and Agenda, please visit the dedicated event webpage here.

Roundtable on Teacher Compensation in Fragile States, Situations of Displacement and Post-Conflict Return

Date: Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

Venue: World Bank

Sponsors: The International Rescue Committee, Save the Children and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, on behalf of the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE).

The outcome document details the findings and recommendations from this forum, including good practices and lessons learned from case studies on teacher compensation in Liberia, South Sudan and Darfur as well as discussion and recommendations from working groups focused on (1) teacher motivation; (2) government structures, policies and regulations, and roles and responsibilities of non-state implementing actors; and (3) donor strategies, funding mechanisms, and benchmarks.

The roundtable highlighted the need for more research on existing experiences and best practices on teacher compensation as well as the need to develop a clear set of guidelines.

Click here for Outcome Report.

Policy Roundtable on Education in Emergencies, Fragile States and Reconstruction: Addressing Challenges and Exploring Alternatives

Date: Thursday, June 22, 2006

Venue: UNICEF Headquarters

Sponsors: the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies

The roundtable participants formed working groups on each of the following objectives and discussed the challenges, constraints, opportunities, recommendations, outstanding questions and possible next steps for each:

• Contribute to policy dialogue that will effectively connect and leverage the various educational initiatives being carried out in the domains of humanitarian assistance, development, gender equality, fragile states and child protection.
• Identify alternative financing mechanisms that can be used to achieve Education for All goals within emergency and reconstruction contexts.
• Examine the ways in which INEE’s Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction can be used by donors and other stakeholders to support their work in education.

The Outcome Report includes the framing papers that were prepared for each objective in advance of the roundtable as well as the recommendations generated by each working group. The roundtable provided a unique opportunity for a diverse group of participants to engage with one another, and created a foundation on which to build future events.

Click here for the Outcome Report.

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