INEE report: Mind the Gap 2. Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises

Join us on Wednesday 29th June from 15:00 – 16:30 BST for a discussion on the recent release of the 2022 Mind the Gap 2 report: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises commissioned by the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and authored by BEI members Education Development Trust (EDT).  

This year’s Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises report builds on the findings of INEE’s first report ‘Mind the Gap: The State of Girls’ Education in Crisis and Conflict’ in 2021. The latest report presents the state of education and training for women and girls affected by crisis and conflict. Using data collected from 44 crisis-affected countries, recent research, and a set of crisis-related intervention case studies, this report has identified three key themes: distance learning for girls and the digital divide; gender-based violence (GBV) and girls’ education; and girls’ education and climate change.

In addition to covering the above themes, the report contains a series of informative and pioneering case studies, offers a review on the evidence of progress in improving education and training for women and girls in crisis-affected countries, as well as providing insight on specific gaps in experiences of education in areas of conflict and crisis.

Mind the Gap 2 comes at a crucial time for the world, where rising conflict, a worsening climate change situation, and the ongoing fallout of the pandemic take center stage in today’s global priorities, with the impact of these global issues being widely known.

An estimated…

1. 222 million girls were unable to be reached by remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic (UNESCO, 2021)

2. 115 million children and adolescents experience school-related gender-based violence every year (UNGEI, 2022)

3. 4 million girls missed out on education in 2021 due to climate-related disasters (IDMC, 2021)

However there remains an important need to understand how women and girls endure the negative effects of conflict, how to improve their access to education through digital channels and applications, and how to both mitigate and support their experiences of school-related gender-based violence.

In this session we will be joined by Lauren Gerken the Coordinator on Gender at the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies  (INEE) and Ruth Naylor, the International Education development expert at Education Development Trust (EDT), report co-author, who will take us through the latest report and its key findings and recommendations, as well as speak to the key case studies and provide us with insights on challenges and ways of working in women's and girls' education in crisis and conflict.