Working Group Description

The Education Sector Working Group (ESWG) was established in 2008 to support the coordination of education interventions following the Iraqi refugee crisis in Jordan. It has continued its coordination mandate throughout the years and in the current Syrian crisis. The ESWG has ensured a link between humanitarian and resilience education programming in line with the Jordan Response Platform (JRP). With more than a decade into the crisis, Jordan has entered a period of transition from primarily humanitarian and resilience interventions to increasingly more development-oriented interventions that include the needs of refugees, host communities and other vulnerable groups. Given the shifting landscape in the sector, one of the ESWG roles going forward is to bridge humanitarian, resilience, and longer-term development efforts to advance inclusive and equitable quality education for all children, adolescents and youth in Jordan and ensure no one is left behind (SDGs 4, 5 and 10). The main objectives of ESWG are as follows: Coordination: To provide an information-sharing and coordination forum in which all relevant organizations and institutions collaborate to support access and equity for all children, adolescents and youth to relevant education, vocational education/TVET and higher education pathways in current and future development and humanitarian programming. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach to education – i.e. protection, equity, gender equality, GBV, children with disability and provision of strong coordination and collaboration among all sector and cross-sectoral members. Planning and Monitoring: In close coordination with the Ministry of Education, to enhance education system capacity in planning, implementing and monitoring education, vocational education/TVET and higher education interventions aligned to the extent possible with national plans and priorities, adopting universal standards for addressing the multi-faceted consequences of natural and human disasters, including gendered impacts, and working in such a way as to strengthen the resilience of national institutions, communities and individuals to cope with and respond to current and future crises. Advocacy and Knowledge Management: To generate relevant data and research evidence and share information in a timely manner in line with international, national and sub-national platforms and frameworks, such as EDPG, ESP TWGs, JRP, Brussels conferences, etc. To ensure data and evidence collected is used to advocate for equitable access to education for all children, adolescents and youth in Jordan. Act as a knowledge-sharing platform to reflect member agencies’ technical experiences and lesson learnt at local, regional and global levels.