INEE Regional Capacity Building Workshop for Anglophone Africa

1. INEE Regional Capacity Building Workshop for Anglophone Africa Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies

2. Workshop Objectives • To identify and share challenges, lessons learnt and good practice experiences in follow-up trainings and implementation of the INEE Minimum Standards • To develop recommendations for improvements in training content and/or methodology in order to further facilitate the training process at regional and/or national levels • To provide refresher training sessions and share new tools to strengthen participants understanding of how to use the INEE Minimum Standards • To develop regional and national and country cluster (where appropriate) plans of action for deepening inter-agency coordination and collaboration to reach quality education

3. The Delegates • 10 countries: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, Sudan, South Africa, Sweden, UK • 16 organizations: Save the Children, IRC, NRC, Windle Trust, CRS, World Vision, DAI, NCA, JRS, Cape Town Refugee Center, CARITAS, UNHCR, WFP, UNICEF, MoE Kenya, MoE Ethiopia • 32 delegates • 6 TOT graduates • 15 had participated in a follow-up workshop • 11 who had never been through a training on the INEE MS but received an orientation

4. DAY 1 (morning): Sharing training challenges, lessons learnt and good practices • Content • Methodology • Logistics • Participants • Partnerships • Other

5. DAY 1 (afternoon): Sharing recommendations and strategies • Examples of recommendations: • Content: Simplify vocabulary in the training materials • Methodology: Contextualize activities + use local languages • Participants: Engage participants in advance of the workshop through a pre-workshop assignment or questionnaire • Logistics:Have budget lines for INEE activities • Partnerships: Organize inter-agency trainings to share costs and roles and responsibilities

6. Day 1 (afternoon): Training Adaptations • Asked for by participants • HIV/AIDS and child protection • Teachers and Other Education Personnel Developed by INEE Secretariat • Acute Emergency • Emergency Response Team • Early Reconstruction • Natural Disasters • Urban/Rural • Safe Learning Environment • Gender • Repatriation • Disaster Risk Reduction (coming soon) • Coordination within Cluster (coming soon)

7. Day 2 (morning): Sharing experiences utilising the INEE Minimum Standards • Global Implementation Overview • Utilisation in assessment, design, monitoring and evaluation • Utilisation in coordination; advocacy and policy; developing sector/national plans; staff learning and mentoring

8. Day 2 (morning): Launch of INEE Minimum Standards Toolkit What could be so exciting? The INEE MS Toolkit!

9. Day 2 (afternoon): Adoption Strategy Checklists Eric presenting the INEE Adoption Strategy checklists and sharing CRS’s institutionalization plan Participants discussing adoption strategy checklists in respective groups

10. Day 2 (afternoon): Training refresher Acute Emergency scenario with a focus on advocacy strategies

11. Refresher Training Early Reconstruction scenario: focus on coordination with Ministry of Education

12. Day 3 (morning) IASC Education Cluster • IASC and Humanitarian Reform • Education Cluster at the global level • Education Cluster at the national level (Uganda) • INEE Adoption Strategy Checklist for Inter-Agency Coordination within the Education Cluster

13. Day 3 (morning): Developing National Action Plans • What are some initiatives or opportunities to work collaboratively at the national/regional level in the coming year? • How can the INEE Minimum Standards and associated tools (coordination checklist, talking points, etc.) assist you in these collective initiatives? • Are there opportunities at the national/regional level to collectively promote the INEE Minimum Standards?

14. Somalia • World Vision and Save the Children to organize 3 trainings on the INEE Minimum Standards for MoE officials and NGOs • World Vision, Save and MoE to organize 3 simplified trainings on the INEE Minimum Standards in local language for teachers and communities • UN agencies and NGOs to disseminate the INEE Minimum Standards to donor agencies

15. Uganda • Promote the INEE Minimum Standards within Education Cluster through advocacy and training • Use the INEE Minimum Standards as a coordination tool to carry out joint assessments and joint planning • Promote and use the INEE Minimum Standards in Back to School Campaigns, Education Week, etc.

16. Sudan • South Sudan: • Save the Children to give a presentation on the INEE Minimum Standards to the ERDF • Each lead agency to organize a training on the INEE Minimum Standards for its Thematic Working Group • NGOS to advocate the incorporation of the INEE Minimum Standards in April Education Campaign to UNICEF • North Sudan: • Save the Children to conduct a training and collaborate Education WG to develop implementation plan in Khartoum 11-13 Dec. 2007 • + 2008: West Darfur, South Darfur, South Kordofan, Abyei, Blue Nile

17. Ethiopia • Establish a national INEE Committee (UNICEF, Save the Children, IRC, Oromia region) • Incorporate the INEE Minimum Standards in the work of the existing regional emergency task force • Share resources, information and experiences accross agencies

18. Day 3 (afternoon): Other Initiatives… and how delegates can be involved with them • INEE, including Task Teams and Interest Groups • INEE Global Consultation 2009 • Teacher Compensation Initiative • Disaster Risk Reduction

19. Day 3 (afternoon): Individual Action Plans 1. List and develop your key action points to promote, train on, implement and institutionalize the INEE Minimum Standards 2. Discuss and get input/advice on your key action points from a peer

20. …and of course, a few energizers!

21. And certificates!