Training Workshop on Education in Emergencies

Invitation

Training workshop on ”Education in Emergencies”

28 – 29 November 2016, Dubai

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We cordially invite your participation in the upcoming informative and interactive training workshop on ”Education in Emergencies”. 

Workshop Details:

     Location:   Dubai International Humanitarian City,  Dubai, UAE     
     Date:           28 – 29 November 2016
     Presenter:  Mr. Gonzalo Sánchez-Terán, Consultant
     Tuition:        in English

Context

With more than 30 million children living in conflict-affected countries, and hundreds of thousands of families displaced by natural disasters and the effects of climate related events, education in times of crisis and conflict is indispensable in order to achieve the goal of universal education. The Education in Emergencies Workshop provides tools to design and implement educational projects from the emergency phase, to post-conflict situations, with a special emphasis on the mechanisms required to improve the quality of education during and after humanitarian crises. This course also focuses on the main challenges children face during forced displacement, such as child recruitment, gender discrimination and food insecurity.

Learning Objectives:

This Workshop will provide participants with an increased understanding of educational needs and interventions in complex emergencies. Participants will receive an overview of the important guidelines, key issues, and debates within the field. They will also be introduced to the key capacities required for establishing education programs and activities in the field and will have the opportunity to critically reflect on their own role as humanitarian actors.

Registration details:

Course fees: USD 600  || Early Bird Price: USD 500 if registered by  01-Nov-2016

For registration, please fill the eie-registration-form and email your request to (Registration@rasil.ae)

Contact person:

Sadig Elamin: Sadig.elamin@rasil.ae

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About the instructor:

Gonzalo Sanchez-Teran has worked for the Jesuit Refugee Service from 2001 to 2015 as Country Director in Guinea Conakry, Liberia, Côte d’Ivoire and the Central African Republic, and as Program Officer in Eastern Chad and the Somali-Ethiopian border. During this time he has organized, managed and implemented emergency projects in refugee and IDP camps with a special focus in education.

He has also done consultancy work on humanitarian assistance, development and advocacy for International NGOs in Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Zambia, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Chad, Uganda, Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  Since 2011 he is a Researcher at Fordham University (New York) where he also teaches at the International Diploma on Humanitarian Assistance. He is also the Director of the Education in Emergencies  Course and the Strategic Issues in Humanitarian Assistance Course for the MIHA (Master on International Humanitarian Assistance).

Gonzalo is also a regular lecturer for the Humanitarian Cooperation Master at Comillas University (Madrid), NOHA Master in International Humanitarian Action at Deusto University (Bilbao), and the Master of International Cooperation in Sustainable Emergency Architecture at the UIC (Barcelona).

In the last years he has conducted training Courses for local NGOs in Sudan, Jordan, South Korea, Kenya, Myanmar, Malaysia, India and Nicaragua. From 2010 to 2011 he was the director of Intermon-Oxfam’s book collection.

 PUBLICATIONS

• Education in the IDP Camps of Eastern Chad, chapter on Even in Chaos. Education in times of Emergency (2011, Ed. Kevin M. Cahill, Fordham University Press)
• El Silencio de Dios y Otras Metáforas, una correspondencia entre África y Nueva York (2008, co-written with the journalist Alfonso Armada, Ed. Trotta)
• Fortnightly articles on African geopolitics in the Spanish magazine El Semanal (2002-08)
• Interview with Jeffrey Sachs on Millennium Development Goals for Taller de Editores (2005, Spain)
• Articles on Politica Exterior Magazine on the Millennium Development Goals and African Geo-politics

Workshop program: 

Day 1 [Monday 28 Nov]:  Standards and Frameworks regarding EiE

09:00- 9:15       Welcome and Introduction to the Course   
09.15- 10.30      Education in Emergencies: Education in the SDGs; Education Cannot Wait. [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]
10.30-10.45       Coffee Break
10.45- 12.00      EiE Documents and Standards: Education First Initiative; INEE Minimum Standards Handbook . [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]
12.00-13.00       Lunch
13.00-14.15        No Lost Generation Initiative (NLG): Education in Emergencies and the Syrian Crisis. NLG – TBC
14.15 -14.30       Coffee Break
14.30-16.00       Education in Emergencies: Designing a project. Teachers and Cash Transfers. [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]

 Day 2 [Tuesday 29 Nov]:  Children and Education in Conflict areas

09:00-10.30      Education in Emergencies: Designing a project. Structures, PTAs, Host Community.  [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]
10.30- 10.45      Coffee Break
10.45- 12.00      Children associated with armed forces or armed groups: Somali refugees in Southern Ethiopia.  [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]
12.00- 13.00      Lunch
13.00- 14.15       The conflict in Yemen and its impact on children and education. [Sadig Elamin] 14.15-  14.30      Coffee Break
14.30- 15.00      Quality Education in Conflict and Post-Conflict Contexts. Girls Education in Emergencies.  [Gonzalo Sanchez Terán]
15:00- 15.30      Regional Initiatives – TBC
15:00- 15.30      Workshop Evaluation and feedback