Education in Rakhine: Next Steps for the Sector
Attachments
Summary report based on the education and conflict assessment conducted in Sittwe and Pauk Taw Township, September 2013
1. Executive summary
Assessment aim
The aim of the education and conflict assessment conducted by Save the Children in Rakhine (Sittwe and Pauk Taw) in September 2013 was to explore the interaction between education and the inter-communal conflict in order to establish a) how external support for education programme strategy and implementation can do harm and how to avoid this, b) how education programmes can contribute to the longer-term process of peace and stability (acknowledging that peaceful co-existence rather than re-integration may be the best hope in the short-medium term). The drive behind the assessment was twofold: recognition that in the absence of a sectoral conflict analysis the emergency education1 interventions underway had the potential to do harm; acknowledgment of the need for the sector to depart from needs-based planning and develop a more strategic approach to programming in this complex context.