Education Cluster Capacity Mapping
Global Study
The primary objective of this report is to identify the capacities and capacity gaps in Education Cluster agencies at the global level. The focus is on the surge capacity required to assist governments and education authorities to provide education during the first three months of a response. Analysis covers three domains:
- the global operating environment,
- organizational capacity, and
- human resource capacity.
Finance, and quality and accountability are relevant to all three and are therefore covered in separate sections. The agencies interviewed for this report were drawn from the global Education Cluster's former Advisory Group (UNESCO, UNHCR, WFP, the IRC, CCF, and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Secretariat. Research for this report also incorporated other stakeholders in order to develop a more comprehensive sense of global emergency education capacity. The agencies that responded and are referred to in this report are CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Plan International. ActionAid also contributed information on its preparedness and disaster risk reduction (DRR) work in relation to education. This takes the total number of agencies to 12 (11 implementing agencies, and the INEE Secretariat).
The research approach was primarily qualitative, though some quantitative information has been gathered and there has been some quantitative analysis of qualitative data.The report evidences many positive and increasingly dynamic developments in education in emergencies. Chief among these is the growing recognition by a range of stakeholders of the importance of education in humanitarian response, as articulated through the formation of the global Education Cluster itself. The report identifies an important base of existing capacity and expertise across the agencies interviewed for the study, and these capacities are described throughout the report as well as in the Annexes. Notwithstanding, major capacity constraints with regard to meeting the Cluster's commitments to timeliness, predictability and accountability are identified.