Essentials for Education in Crisis and Conflict Course

This three-day course offers USAID education staff the opportunity to gain and apply knowledge and skills to better design, procure, manage, and evaluate education programs for the unique challenges of conflict- and crisis-affected contexts — including situations of high levels of violence, lawlessness, and high disaster risk. The course’s case studies will place priority on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but will also address key issues from other conflict and crisis contexts. This highly participatory course will foster ample opportunities for participants to offer and exchange their expertise, experience, and particular challenges from their own contexts.

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Identify the unique characteristics and challenges of education programs in conflict and crisis contexts, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
2. Manage, procure, and oversee a Rapid Education and Risk Analysis (RERA).
3. Adapt principles of conflict sensitivity to education program design and management to the LAC context (e.g., gang activity, risk of violence, natural disasters), and other contexts.
4. Assess education program design using evidence-based theories of change for key challenges of education in Latin America and the Caribbean, including equity, safety, social-emotional learning, and local institutional capacity building.
5. Develop indicators, feedback loops and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plans for projects and activities using a Collaboration, Learning and Adapting framework. 6. Identify appropriate grant or contract mechanisms that provide flexibility and adaptation for an education program in crisis- and conflict-affected environments.