INEE Minimum Standards Contextualizations

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are meant to serve as a guideline to practitioners and policy makers to establish quality education programming in emergencies through to recovery. The Minimum Standards are most effective when they are contextualised to each individual setting. The Standards define the goals for access to quality education in universal terms, while the key actions represent specific steps that are needed to achieve each Standard. Since every context is different, the key actions in the handbook must be adapted to each specific local situation. Context, including available resources, and the stage of the emergency must be considered in determining locally acceptable contextualized actions.

Steps to contextualize the INEE Minimum Standards

  1. Contact the INEE Secretariat (minimumstandards@inee.org) to advise that you are planning to contextualize the Minimum Standards.
  2. Identify other education providers within your context who are interested in cooperating with you in the contextualization process.
  3. Host an orientation to the Minimum Standards. Invite other education providers from local agencies and Ministry of Education. Use the Handbook in the local language if available. During this orientation, some participants may become interested in contributing to the contextualization process.
  4. Set up a working group of representatives of other educational agencies and hopefully those who attended the orientation to the Minimum Standards. Select a chairperson to oversee the entire contextualization process, and organize meetings to discuss each Standard separately.
  5. Present the framework for contextualization to serve as guide to discuss the characteristics and elements of each Standard. Break up each Standard into its different components and discuss each in detail, ensuring not to lower the Standards due to challenging contexts. Consult the key actions and guidance notes of each Standard to help guide discussions and definitions.
  6. Hold a series of working meetings with the education providers to go through all the Minimum Standards.
  7. Once the Standards have been contextualized, combine them into a compiled document.
  8. Host a forum where these contextualized Standards are presented to practitioners and stakeholders in your setting.

For further information on contextualization, contact minimumstandards@inee.org

Below is a list of contextualized INEE Minimum Standards as well as resources to support the contextualisation process.

31 December 2014 Manual/Handbook/Guide Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Save the Children, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Bangladesh

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts.The Minimum Standards are most effective when they are contextualised to each individual setting. The following is a sample of contextualised INEE Minimum Standards from Bangladesh in 2015.

31 December 2012 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Ethiopia Education Cluster

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Ethiopia

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. The Minimum Standards are most effective when they are contextualised to each individual setting. The following is a sample of contextualised INEE Minimum Standards from Ethiopia.

1 August 2018 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Iraq Education Cluster

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Iraq

Based on the INEE Minimum Standards for Education, this contextualized tool defines effective, quality, and inclusive education practices that support the provision of safe, quality, and relevant education for all children and youth in Iraq and surrounding countries.

31 December 2014 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Education Sector Working Group

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Jordan

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are most effective when they are contextualized to each individual setting. The following is the contextualized INEE Minimum Standards from Jordan.

31 December 2013 Manual/Handbook/Guide Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Lebanon

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are most effective when they are contextualized to each individual setting. The following is the contextualized INEE Minimum Standards from Lebanon.

1 May 2021 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), Save the Children, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Mongolian Education Alliance

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Mongolia

Based on the INEE Minimum Standards for Education, this contextualized tool defines effective, quality, and inclusive education practices that support the provision of safe, quality, and relevant education for all children and youth in Mongolia. 

1 December 2021 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Nigeria Education in Emergencies Working Group

INEE Minimum Standards for Education - NE Nigeria

This document follows the organisation of the INEE Minimum Standards: the five domains and their correlating standards. The sections for each standard includes the text of the original INEE Minimum Standards, and then contextualised guidance on how to interpret the global standard in the North- East Nigeria context.

31 December 2012 Manual/Handbook/Guide Global Education Cluster, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: occupied Palestinian territory

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. The Minimum Standards are most effective when they are contextualised to each individual setting. The following is a sample of contextualised INEE Minimum Standards from occupied Palestinian territory in 2013.

22 April 2013 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Somalia Education Cluster

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Somalia

INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery. Contextualized for Somalia. This document is the product of the work of the INEE Secretariat and the Somalia Education Cluster, carried out in 2011 and 2012.

30 March 2012 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
South Sudan Education Cluster

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: South Sudan

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are most effective when they are contextualized to each individual setting. The following is the contextualized INEE Minimum Standards from South Sudan.

31 December 2012 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
Sri Lanka Education Working Group

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Sri Lanka

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are most effective when they are contextualized to each individual setting. The following is the contextualized INEE Minimum Standards from Sri Lanka.

20 September 2011 Manual/Handbook/Guide
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)
Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Technology

Contextualized INEE Minimum Standards: Vietnam

The INEE Minimum Standards are generic in order to be applicable to a broad range of contexts. They are most effective when they are contextualized to each individual setting. The following is the contextualized INEE Minimum Standards from Vietnam.

31 December 2015 Manuel/Guide Global Education Cluster, Réseau Inter-agence pour l'éducation en situations d'urgences (INEE), Save the Children

Normes Minimales de l’éducation en situations d’urgence: RDC Nord Kivu

C’est en prenant en compte ces éléments clés du contexte du Nord-Kivu et des risques auxquels la région est exposée mais aussi en tenant compte de la capacité et des pouvoirs des autorités de la RDC, que les Normes minimales de l’INEE ont été contextualisées pour répondre de façon plus pertinente au cas du Nord-Kivu.