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Background
The context in Myanmar has been continuously evolving since the February 2021 military takeover events. To facilitate streamlined continuity in the absence of a valid National Education Sector Strategic Plan (NESSP), development partners and key stakeholders in the Myanmar education sector space came together in early 2022 to develop the Joint Response Framework (JRF). This is an overarching guiding framework to guide the whole sector (including the humanitarian side) on the way forward regarding education. In August 2021, the cluster coordination mechanism was activated on a national scale in Myanmar, and in 2022 the Education Cluster Strategy was developed to provide a common approach and operational plan among Education Cluster partners in Myanmar, to prepare for and respond to humanitarian situations for a 3-year period until 2025. The education cluster strategy therefore is a guiding framework that outlines the needs, response activities, and collective Cluster priorities for the three-year period from 2022 to 2025 – focusing on the humanitarian ‘sub sector’ of the education sector. The education cluster strategy was aligned with the Joint Response Framework (JRF) alongside three main pillars; (Access, Quality and System Strengthening). As a result of the context changes that have since happened, the two key guidance documents have since gone out of date in one way or other; strategic direction and priorities, scale and evolution of needs (both education specific and interconnected multisectoral ones), and they are due for revision in 2025. The revision process will start with the Joint Response Framework (JRF) and then the education cluster strategy.