ECW, INEE and UNGEI are delighted to be launching the EiE-GenKit – A Core Resource Package on Gender in EiE TODAY!

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Neelofar Ahmed to Everyone:  07:01 AM

Hi everyone. CAn't hear nothing!

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:02 AM

Please do introduce yourselves and tell us where you are joining from in the chatbox

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From Jane Davies to Everyone:  07:02 AM

Hi all, Jane Davies here, joining from UK

From Sarah Tekle to Everyone:  07:02 AM

My name is Sarah Tekle from Eritrea-UNICEF Education officer

From Tinuola Oladebo to Everyone:  07:02 AM

Hi my name is Tinuola representing OneAfricanChild from Nigeria

From Lama AlKhafaji to Everyone:  07:02 AM

Hi everyone  Lama from UNICEF Iraq

From Anika Tanjim to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Anika from UNICEF Bangladesh, Rohingya Refugee Response (Education)

From Adele Aubrey to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hi I'm Dr Adele Aubrey

Partnerships and Programmes Manager, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute

University of Manchester

From Neelofar Ahmed to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hello! I am Neelofar Ahmed, a third year doctoral student at OISE, University of Toronto. Joining from Karachi, Pakistan

From Elyssa Skeirik to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hi all! Elyssa Skeirik from FHI 360 joining from DC

From Donna Comerford to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hi Donna from Kent, UK. PhD student researcher, looking at emergency education in displaced communities in Fiji.

From Adele Aubrey to Everyone:  07:03 AM

my email adele.aubrey@manchester.ac.uk

From Erin Wall to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hi everyone, Erin Wall from Concern Worldwide joining from Turkey

From Masumi Yamashina to Everyone:  07:03 AM

Hello, Masumi Yamashina, UNICEF Geneva

From Juliette Myers to Everyone:  07:04 AM

Hello everyone, Juliette Myers here one of the GenKit co-writers - congratulations to the whole team on the launch!  

From Yeojin Song to Everyone:  07:04 AM

Hello eveyone! (again for some) This is Jina working at UNESCO APCEIU

From Clara Wolf to Everyone:  07:04 AM

Hello, Clara from Oxfam IBIS education team here

From Me to Everyone:  07:04 AM

hi all chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk from www.2025report.com Washington dc and glasgow

From Kathryn Moore to Everyone:  07:04 AM

Hi, I’m Katie Moore from UNGEI, New York

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:04 AM

Thanks everyone from around the world and welcome!

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Mariane Bloudeau to Everyone:  07:05 AM

Hello, I’m Mariane Bloudeau from France. Soon to be Education Project Officier at the French Embassy in Singapore

From Katie Dutko to Everyone:  07:05 AM

Hello all, Katie from CRS Education team in Iraq

From Pamela Gasque to Everyone:  07:05 AM

Hi, Pamela Gasque from GLOCAL YOUTH in Mexico

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:05 AM

We welcome questions and comments throughout which we will do our best to address if not in real time then by reaching out after this event

From Fiona Dwinger to Everyone:  07:06 AM

Hi All, Fiona Dwinger from the Institute for Global Change, currently in London

From Sophia D'Angelo to Everyone:  07:07 AM

Good morning from the Dominican Republic!

From Leticia Amuduki to Everyone:  07:07 AM

Hi all, my name is Leticia AMUDUKI from Humanity & Inclusion  (formerly Handicap International) Uganda. I am the Inclusive Education Technical Coordinator.  We work to improve access to inclusive education for refugee children in Uganda with a special focus to children with disabilities in refugee settlements in Uganda.

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:07 AM

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Aamina Adham to Everyone:  07:08 AM

Hi everyone Aamina Qadir Adham from Right To Play International. I am the Gender Equality Specialist global programs and I sit in Toronto Canada.

From Agnese Pastorino to Everyone:  07:08 AM

Hi, Agnese Pastorino, Member of the External Review Panel for UNICEF Education Cannot Wait New York, and associate researcher in sociology at the Sorbonne University in Paris (working remotely from Zanzibar).

From Tembiwe Magadzo to Everyone:  07:08 AM

Tembiwe Magadzo. CRS Zimbabwe. Hallo everyone

From Hadeel Hijazi to Everyone:  07:08 AM

Hello, I am Hadeel, from the Inclusion department at Al Fayhaa Association in Lebanon

From ALFONSO NAVARRO CARVALLO to Everyone:  07:08 AM

Greetings for all , from Tacna ( Perú and Chile ) EliteSDGs Business Consulting

From alice boffi to Everyone:  07:09 AM

Hello, I am Alice from AVSI Foundation based in Lebanon

From Me to Everyone:  07:10 AM

forgive silly question - what does eie stand for

From Kathryn Moore to Everyone:  07:10 AM

Education in Emergencies

From Nagore Moran to Everyone:  07:11 AM

Hello, Nagore Moran Llovet,  Gender in Emergencies Adviser in Plan International UK

From SUSAN DURSTON to Everyone:  07:11 AM

Hello,Susan Durston ,Director/Chair of trustees at CHILD to CHILD which believes in children participating in decisions made for/with them. www.childtochild.org.uk/

From Lizzie Rushwaya to Everyone:  07:11 AM

Hello everyone I am Lizzie Rushwaya in Zimbabwe

From Gloria (UNGEI) to Everyone:  07:11 AM

Hello everyone! Thank you so much for joining. It is an honour to be launching the new EiE-GenKit! 

From Juliette Hauville to Everyone:  07:12 AM

Hello everyone, I'm Juliette Hauville from the LEGO Foundation

From Lauren Gerken, INEE to Everyone:  07:12 AM

Hi everybody! Lauren Gerken, INEE Gender Project Manager. Thrilled to be co-launching the EiE-GenKit today!

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:13 AM

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Juliette Myers to Everyone:  07:13 AM

great film!

From Anika Tanjim to Everyone:  07:13 AM

Could we get the link to the Video? Thank you

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:14 AM

The video as well as this event will be available after the event here https://www.ungei.org/event/eie-genkit-virtual-launch

From SUSAN DURSTON to Everyone:  07:14 AM

Congratulations on this, and through a virtual launch I hope we are lessening our carbon footprints and saving funds which could be spent for children

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

You can access the newly launched EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Juliette Myers to Everyone:  07:13 AM

great film!

From Anika Tanjim to Everyone:  07:13 AM

Could we get the link to the Video? Thank you

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:14 AM

The video as well as this event will be available after the event here https://www.ungei.org/event/eie-genkit-virtual-launch

From SUSAN DURSTON to Everyone:  07:14 AM

Congratulations on this, and through a virtual launch I hope we are lessening our carbon footprints and saving funds which could be spent for children

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:17 AM

You can access the EiE-GenKit here: https://www.ungei.org/publication/eie-genkit

From Gloria (UNGEI) to Everyone:  07:18 AM

The video will be available after the event here: www.ungei.org/event/eie-genkit-virtual-launch 

Ruth Naylor 07:07 AM 

Does the panel think that in crisis contexts , where girls are often so disadvanted in education, do we need Girl focused funding streams (and programming)  in EiE or is Gender responsive funding (and programming) sufficient to close the gap?

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christopher macrae (You) 07:13 AM  Deleted by host

i've been to bangladesh 15 times - does your initiative have a main contact point with alumni od late sir fazle abed at brac university or any of abed partners in refugee girl empowerment

Kenneth Geyi 07:18 AM  

What plan is in place to ensure that the affected people are empowered . Capacity building need to be in place focusing on change management.

Emilie Rees Smith 07:22 AM 

Thank you for your important question. We will try to address in the panel, in the meantime affected populations are a key cross-cutting aspect of the EiE-GenKit. The GenKit will be rolled out in collaboration with partners on the ground including capacity building initiatives, orientation and training

Noemi Robiati 07:18 AM  

how is this kit different from the one launched last week called: "Reimagining Girls' Education: Solutions to Keep Girls Learning in Emergencies" by UNICEF. And why not have a concerted effort to have one?

Sandrine Bohan-Jacquot 07:19 AM  

Thank you for this great toolkit and collaboration! I see with great pleasure that disability is taken into account in particular regarding data collection. Could you please expand on the intersectionnality of Gender, Age and Disability and the main toolkit recommendations to take this intersectionality into account practically? Thanks

christopher macrae (You) 07:23 AM  

for about 10 years now there has been talk of urgent need for 11 yearvup peer to peer girls health curricula- is there any progress on this- if so what bookmark or contact is starting point? also is unai (academic impact) connected with what you are doing- when i went to unai summit in 2015 unai arranged partnerships in nanotech with deepdata applcations in girls poorest villages with india and other partners- has this evolved into anything usable regarding vaccine #aiforgood; also is there a map of how your knowhow varies by minimum platform accessible - radio, 2g mobile, ... recently unicef henrietta fore annouced giga project  narrowing gap between mapping where schools are and wi-fi acess but is that 5 years out or is it part of solution before then

Thank you all for sharing your work and specific experiences working with girls in diverse contexts of conflict. Working in the refugee settlements in Uganda, our target is the refugee children with disabilities. While generally girls are very vulnerable, refugee girls with disabilities are even more vulnerable. You can imagine the intersectionality of gender, being a refugee and even worse, a refugee girl with disability! Listening to all your presentations, one challenge that keeps recurring is the fact that most times, children with disabilities are left out in all these . That EiE actors fail to pay specific attention to disability as a factor of heightened vulnerability is indeed a worrying trend. 

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  07:59 AM

Yes thank you for numerous comments/questions raising this important point. The EiE-GenKit includes disability as a cross-cutting theme with links to relevant additional resources on this too

From Leticia Amuduki to Everyone:  08:00 AM

Think of the challenges that girls in emergency situations are faced with, and even more, think of the challenges a refugee girls with disability in an emergency situation faces!! During school closure owing to the covid-19 pandemic, while refugee children with disabilities were left out in the approaches adopted for continued learning, refugee girls with disabilities, were even more affected. From being used as home keepers by their own caregivers, to being victims of gbv from lack of or limited ability to protect themselves or even report such cases, to being married off and even in some cases being sacrificed for ritual cleansing.

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  08:07 AM

Thank you for all your contributions and important reflections, we will feed to panel and reach out after the event with further information

From SUSAN DURSTON to Everyone:  08:12 AM

Radio appears to be still a wonderful means of communication. It seems to me to be an idea for a specialist interest group. We had child radio reporters during the Ebola out break in Sierra Leone. Girls were at the fore front, and raised their own issues.  http://www.childtochild.org.uk/resources/mod/glossary/showentry.php?eid=13.

From Said mohamed Salah to Everyone:  08:21 AM

i add the girls also help gender balance in the recruitment of qualified female teachers

From Emilie Rees Smith to Everyone:  08:22 AM

Thank you for all your insightful comments and echoing important points on adaptation of stratgies and related learning on gender-responsive approaches in the context of COVID-19

From sughra.choudhrykhan to Everyone:  08:23 AM

So lovely to hear this personal account!

From Aamina Adham to Everyone:  08:26 AM

Beautiful thank you for sharing Summia and everyone. Kudos to everyone who has overcome barriers and supported others to overcome these barriers.

Henry Waitindi 07:34 AM  

The kit is powerful field asset for the conflict and crises contexts, does it have direct linkages to the GBV responses/actions in the same contexts?

Emilie Rees Smith 07:41 AM 

Thanks you for your question, yes GBV is an important component of the EIE-GenKit and is addressed throughout the modules as well as dedicated information under the Kit's 'Implementation' section

Outi Perähuhta 07:38 AM  

Is the mothers’ education considered as after providing literacy skills for mothers their sensitization about the importance of education is not needed anymore.

Emilie Rees Smith 08:12 AM 

Thank you Outi, yes absolutely the education of women/mothers is key in promoting girls' education and integrated in the EiE-GenKit's modules

Emily Echessa 07:41 AM  

Thanks for excellent presentations. Questions -1) With the growing focus on girls education (and rightly so!), is there evidence  to infer that this triggers a backlash on girls & women in certain contexts? If so has the tool kit adequately addressed this? 2) Any considerations of reverse gender inequalities in education in certain contexts?

Adele Aubrey 07:42 AM  

Are there examples of how funding has been succesfully secured to pay for female teachers training and salary, and how girls have been supported in attending education.

LEYA AMONDE OUKO OUAMBO 07:45 AM  

Is there any organization here that supports girls with sanitary towels so that i could contact them - this is in Southern africa region. I am advocating for refugee girls who are affected by monthly menstruation.

Grazia Paoleri 07:45 AM  

In emergencies, there are usually far fewer female teachers, and girls are disproportionately affected when schools are dominated by men.

Are there special provisions on teacher training and salaries, and strategies to increase the supply of female educators and para-professionals who can be involved in teaching and mentoring? Grazia Paoleri - MYRP Secretariat Coordinator, South Sudan

Ayuba Irmiya 07:45 AM  

Due to the prolonged crisis in Northeastern part of Nigeria, the child have completely missed it on Education especially those that sufffered from GBV because of stigamatization that is going on. Out of school children are at high number in rural areas in NE Nigeria. Is there anything that is being done to help this young girls? Are there funding opportunities for Local/National NGOs working to alleviate these young girls?

Nneka Obasi 07:46 AM  

For Hawa, do any of your interventions include education for boys/men?

Emilie Rees Smith 08:24 AM 

Thank you Nneka we will pass the question to Hawa

Samantha Ross 07:47 AM  

Building or strengthening current structures in education planning to support education in emergencies and ensure these are gender focused, are crucial for sustainabiilty. School leaders, including community members, are essential in this process. Does the toolkit address the strengthening of mainstream and non-formal education systems, for example School Improvement Planning, so that emergencies and gender are routinely considered?

Emilie Rees Smith 08:18 AM 

Thank you Samantha, this is crucial. The EiE-GenKit absolutely focuses on strengthening both formal and non-formal education systems. The tools are designed to fit into and build on existing systems and processes used from sudden onset to protracted crisis to ensure a systematic approach to gender-responsive EiE

Feyi Rodway 08:01 AM  

Thank you for the presentations and for the toolkit. To what extent can the positive lessons learnt from responses to recent school closures be taken to scale? And a question for the toolkit team - were additional data/research gaps identified in the process of developing the toolkit?

Emilie Rees Smith 08:15 AM 

Thank you Feyi, the toolkit team identified a range of data/research gaps as part of the consultation and analysis phase of the EiE-GenKit's development. Many of the kit's tools were designed to respond to these gaps, especially those in the modules on needs assessment and analysis and on monitoring and evaluation - where action are designed to provide sustainable solutions by building in gender-responsive approaches to existing processes during these phases

Sandrine Bohan-Jacquot 08:06 AM  

Thanks, if they can expand beyond data collection, it would be great. Many thanks!