Education Resilience Case Report

Education Resilience Case Report

 

The World Bank estimates that more than 1 billion people live in states affected by conflict or instability. Children in these states face a number of unique challenges, including exposure to violence and trauma, and a lack of access to safe spaces. To address these issues, many organizations are implementing programs in fragile and conflict-affected states to ensure students keep learning despite their circumstances. 

Reflective of the growing importance of education innovations in fragile and conflict-affected states, CEI has identified and profiled close to 50 programs around the world that have implemented creative solutions to support educational development in such fragile and conflict-affected states. 

About 20 of these programs operate in Sub-Saharan Africa; more than one-quarter serve populations in South Asia, mostly in Afghanistan; and another one-fourth focus on communities in East Asia, many of them along the Thai-Burmese border. This Database at a Glance provides an overview of the common characteristics of these CEI-profiled programs that target fragile and conflict-affected states.