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INNOVATION
The INEE Minimum Standards are the only global tool that articulates the minimum level of educational quality and
access in emergencies through to recovery. The Minimum Standards express a commitment that all individuals—
children, youth and adults—have a right to education. Beforehand no tool existed to help achieve a minimum level of
educational access and quality in emergencies through to recovery as well as to ensure the accountability of the
workers. When it comes to the INEE Toolkit, including the INEE Pocket Guide on Inclusive Education and INEE Pocket
Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities it is particularly innovative.
FACTS ON O UTPUT (WITH ADDITIONS FROM THE ZERO PROJECT TEAM)
 INEE Minimum Standards of 2010 are available in over 22 different languages:
the INEE Toolkit is available in different languages
at including the INEE Pocket Guide on Inclusive Education
available in five languages and the INEE Pocket
Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities available in three languages:
 The INEE Minimum Standards and Toolkit, including the pocket guides, were highlighted and widely distributed (via
the EENET network, UN agencies, Governments, NGOs, etc.).
 The INEE Minimum Standards and Toolkit have become a reference tool for practitioners focusing on education in
emergencies. According to INEE MS Assessment Report of 2012, respondents report using the INEE Minimum
Standards in 110 countries and territories for education program development,
advocacy, research and teaching EiE. Out of the 701 respondents, 29% said they regularly use them and 42% said
they sometimes use them. Overall, 38% of respondents found them ‘Very Useful’, 57% of respondents found them
‘Useful’ and only 5% of respondents found them ‘Not Useful’. Conflict is the most frequent context where INEE MS
are used (32%), but not skewed heavily, and 20% of respondents state that they use them in both conflict and
natural disaster contexts. Preparedness received the most individual selections for the stage at which the INEE MS
are used (245 respondents). Among the most common uses, 264 respondents stated, Advocacy for Education in
Emergencies and Recognition of Education as a Key Humanitarian Response.
 Among the key accomplishments of the INEE Working Group on Minimum Standards (2004 - 2013) are: the support
of hundreds of trainings and TOTs (training of trainers) either by directly co-organizing and facilitating, or by
providing technical training support to INEE members and partners; the creation of a series of training and capacity
building resources including the INEE Training Package, the first recognized training package in support of EiE
capacity building (now the harmonized INEE-Education Cluster Education in Emergencies Training Package); the
contextualization of the INEE MS for Vietnam, Afghanistan, South Sudan,
Lebanon, Somalia, and Ethiopia, and currently underway for Sri Lanka, oPt and Bangladesh; advocacy for the
2010 UN General Assembly Resolution on the Right to Education in Emergency Situations and the 2011 UN
Security Council Resolution 1998 on the Protection of Children in Armed Conflict.