INEE Minimum Standards for Education: preparedness, response, recovery
Year
2010

The aim of the Handbook is:

  1. To enhance the quality of educational preparedness, response and recovery;
  2. To increase access to safe and relevant learning opportunities for all learners, regardless of their age, gender or abilities; and
  3. To ensure accountability and strong coordination in the provision of education in emergencies through to recovery.

The Handbook is designed to give governments and humanitarian workers the tools that they need to address the Education for All and UN Millennium Development Goals. It is the first step toward ensuring that education initiatives in emergency situations provide a solid and sound basis for post-conflict and disaster reconstruction. The INEE Minimum Standards express a commitment that all individuals – children, youth, and adults – have a right to education during emergencies and fragile contexts. They echo the core beliefs of the Sphere Project: that all possible steps should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict, and that people affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity.

Click here for a list of contextualized INEE Minimum Standards as well as resources to support the contextualisation process.

For case studies on the usage of the INEE Minimum Standards around the world, click here.

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