With crises and conflicts disrupting education for a growing number of children, ensuring the continuity of education and that refugees and internally displace persons do not get overlooked in policy dialogue are constant priorities.
While education sector development coordination mechanisms (including local education groups) regularly consider the needs for education in emergencies, crises may also require activation of specific humanitarian response coordination structures.
As such, Education Clusters function as interagency forums providing leadership in crises. Refugee coordination mechanisms — and their respective working groups–exist separately from Clusters, seeking to adapt strategies to address the needs of refugee groups.
When the education sector, Refugee coordination mechanisms and Clusters develop coordination linkages, they can reduce duplication and achieve more cost-effective and sustainable results for crisis-affected populations.