PROJECTS
Exterion and USAID's Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN)
Exterion was awarded a five-year (2014-2019) sub-contract with Education Development Center, Inc. to support implementation of USAID’s Education in Conflict and Crisis Network (ECCN) project (USAID Task Order No. AID-OAA-M-14-00007, Building Evidence and Capacity to Increase Equitable Access to Education in Crisis and Conflict-Affected Environments [Goal 3].)
ECCN is a global community of practice composed of USAID staff and implementing partners who work to increase equitable access to education for children and youth in crisis and conflict-affected environments. ECCN gathers, develops and disseminates knowledge, information, tools and resources on education in crisis and conflict at global, regional and country levels. ECCN has over 1,100 members from over 300 organizations globally.
Exterion provides conflict and crisis expertise to the ECCN Support Team, staffing the Key Personnel role of Senior Advisor/Conflict and Crisis Specialist who serves on the Steering Group, and leads the following ECCN practice and activity areas:
USAID Rapid Education and Risk Analysis
Education and Countering Violent Extremism How-To Note
Humanitarian-Development Coherence White Paper
Resilience and Education White Paper
More information on some of Exterion’s work with ECCN can be found below:
USAID Rapid Education and Risk Analysis (RERA) Toolkit
Authored the new USAID RERA Toolkit
Team leadership for the RERA El Salvador for the USAID El Salvador
Co-designed and facilitated USAID University's RERA Training
Support to RERA field implementation in Mali, Afghanistan, others planned in Africa and Latin America.
Webinar Facilitation
Education in Syria Webcast
SCR 2250 Webcast
Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crisis, Phase II consultations
INEE Conflict Analysis Webcast
USAID Education in Conflict and Crisis Training
Facilitated USAID EiCC Fundamentals training: Nigeria, Ethiopia, Thailand, Washington
Presentations
Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)
USAID Education Summit (2015)
USAID Violence Prevention Meeting (2017)
Blogs
The New Global Agenda is Here: Are We Ready? (with N. Papadopoulos)
Are You a Hazard?
Youth Working for Peace Just Got a Helping Hand
Global Inter-Agency Guidance on Youth and Peacebuilding
In 2014, PeaceNexus Foundation, in partnership with the UN Peacebuilding Support Office, contracted Exterion to lead the collaborative development of an inter-agency Practice Note on Young People’s Participation in Peacebuilding under the Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth Participation in Peacebuilding, which includes 40 organizations from civil society and the UN.
The Practice Note seeks to inform policymakers and donors of key strategic and programming
considerations to better support young people’s participation to peacebuilding. Specifically, the Practice Note:
offers evidence-based, promising practices in youth peacebuilding in the field;
advances the understanding of donors and policy-makers of complex and often interconnected policy and program considerations for more holistic support to youth peacebuilding interventions, and;
aims to enhance the effectiveness of policies and funding strategies of bilateral and multilateral donors and agencies supporting youth peacebuilding interventions.
The Practice Note highlights the work of a wide range of actors, including international and
local NGOs, UN agencies, national governments and others, demonstrating young people’s role
in building peace in diverse contexts. It also constitutes an important effort in supporting
implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security at
regional, national and local levels.
Exterion presented the Practice Note at the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security held in
August 2015 in Amman, Jordan. The forum brought together 500 government officials, policy
experts, youth-led organizations, and young peacebuilders from over 100 countries aimed at
helping shape a new international agenda on youth, peace and security. Exterion also
contributed to the Amman Youth Declaration, a roadmap for youth inclusion in archiving peace
and security.
