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GADRRRES

Grupo Regional de Educación para Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Regional Education Group for Latin America

Grupo Regional de Educación para Latinoamérica y el Caribe / Regional Education Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GRE-LAC) was established in 2011 under the framework of REDLAC (Risk Emergency Disaster Working Group for Latin America and the Caribbean) to support Ministries of Education in their education in emergencies response (including risk management, disaster, and migration), based on the Sendai Framework, the World Initiative for Safe Schools and the Global Education Cluster, to ensure the right to education to all children in the region.

The GRE-LAC acts as the regional coordination mechanism, exchange of information, reflection and programming and support of joint actions between UN agencies, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, multilateral agencies, donors, and other education stakeholders that allows the strengthening of disaster risk reduction, humanitarian aid and migration and refugee responses in the education sector in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Purposes

To promote the implementation of actions in the education sector according to the needs identified at regional, national, and local levels based on the Work Plan of the Global Cluster of Education, REDLAC (Risk Emergency Disaster Working Group for Latin America and the Caribbean), the Sendai Framework, the World Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS)
To promote research, the collection, systematization, analysis, and exchange of information for the establishment of evidence, both the impact of disasters in the educational sector, as of the advances of the sector in terms of disaster risk reduction, education in emergencies and refugee and migration crises
To promote the development and strengthening of capacities and skills in DRR preparation and response to emergencies in the educational sector of LAC countries – including decision makers – fostering a culture of reduction/risk and resilience in this sector
To demonstrate the impact of disasters in the educational sector and advocate at all levels and instances for the inclusion of the educational sector as fundamental part of the humanitarian response and for the importance of ensuring the educational right during an emergency and/or crisis, including refugee and migration crises
To ensure that the proposed actions incorporate a rights-based approach to consider the characteristics and needs of the different groups such as women, people with disabilities, early childhood, childhood, adolescence, youth, seniors, ethnic groups, as well as consideration of substantive issues such as social risks, violence based on gender, HIV, environment, among others that are identified as significant for the region

Key Priorities

1 Advocacy and governance
2 Promotion of tools and communication
3 Development of capacities of sectoral education at the national level
4 Mobilization of technical and financial resources for DRR, refugee and migration initiatives and education in emergencies
5 Guarantee of a coherent and coordinated operational response by focusing on regional strategic and country-specific support, information/knowledge management and sharing, communication, and resource mobilization
6 The bi-annual workplan will be developed including two main components: (a) Disaster Risk Reduction, education preparedness and response, and (b) Migrant and refugee education response

Accomplishments

  • Disaster Risk Reduction Course for Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Guidance: “Guide for the Adaptation of the Curriculum in Emergency Situations”

  • Creando Aula online practical course for teachers in contexts of emergency

  • Webinar series: “Leaving no one behind in times of the COVID-19 pandemic”

  • Online section for the Regional Education Working Group in the Humanitarian Response

  • Online repository for the National Responses Section and the Thematic Resources section

  • Report: “Right to Education in Times of Crises: Alternatives for the Continuity of Education”

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Asia Pacific Coalition for School Safety
West and Central Africa Education in Emergencies Working Group
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