Our Founding Principle
Every child deserves a chance. Be the reason they thrive today.
DONATE NOW AND SUPPORT OUR MISSION.
Our Founding Principle
By mobilizing local knowledge and resources, EiC ensures that education solutions are not only delivered to communities, but built with them—strengthening resilience, dignity, and long-term impact.
Education in Crisis (EiC) was founded on the belief that local communities are not beneficiaries of education recovery, they are its architects. Communities understand their own needs, challenges, and strengths far better than any external organization. In crisis and conflict settings, they are often the first to respond when formal systems collapse, sustaining learning through collective effort, local knowledge, and resilience.
EiC’s work is therefore rooted in the conviction that education interventions are most effective, relevant, and sustainable when communities are actively involved in shaping them from identifying priorities to implementing solutions and safeguarding outcomes.
What Community Engagement Means at EiC
For EiC, community engagement goes beyond consultation. It is a shared process of planning, implementation, and accountability that recognizes communities as co-owners of education initiatives.
EiC works with:
- Parents and caregivers
- Teachers and volunteer educators
- Youth and adolescent leaders
- School and community education committees
- Traditional and local leaders
Together, these actors play a central role in:
- Identifying education needs and barriers
- Supporting access to learning during emergencies
- Protecting children from education-related risks
- Sustaining education services in hard-to-reach contexts
Education in Crisis
How We Put Localization into Practice
EiC’s community engagement approach is grounded in localization, ensuring that solutions are context-specific, culturally relevant, and community-led.
We do this by:
How We Put Localization into Practice
EiC’s community engagement approach is grounded in localization, ensuring that solutions are context-specific, culturally relevant, and community-led.
We do this by:
Co-designing interventions with communities
EiC works with communities to jointly assess needs, design activities, and adapt education responses to local realities. This ensures programs reflect cultural norms, conflict dynamics, language, and community priorities.
Mobilizing and strengthening local resources
EiC supports communities to contribute their own resources time, knowledge, spaces, and leadership alongside external support. This includes engaging volunteer teachers, community learning spaces, and local materials.
Building community capacity and leadership
Rather than replacing local systems, EiC strengthens them by building the skills of community members, school committees, and local educators to manage, monitor, and sustain education initiatives.
Promoting shared ownership and accountability
When communities are actively involved, they develop a strong sense of ownership and pride in education initiatives. EiC reinforces this through feedback mechanisms, community dialogue, and shared responsibility for protecting learning spaces and children.
Ensuring inclusion and protection through community action
Community engagement helps identify children most at risk of exclusion especially girls, children with disabilities, and displaced learners and supports referral to specialized partners where needed.
Work through local structures rather than replacing them, strengthening existing community education systems
Key actions include:
- Engaging parents, caregivers, and community leaders to support school attendance and retention
- Supporting parent-teacher associations and school/community education committees
- Build capacity of local actors by working with community volunteers, youth leaders, school committees and untrained teachers to sustain learning in emergencies
- Promoting girls’ education and inclusion of children with disabilities through community dialogue
- Establishing feedback and complaints mechanisms to ensure accountability to affected populations
- Supporting community-based identification and referral of at-risk children to protection partners
Co-designing interventions with communities
EiC works with communities to jointly assess needs, design activities, and adapt education responses to local realities. This ensures programs reflect cultural norms, conflict dynamics, language, and community priorities.
Mobilizing and strengthening local resources
EiC supports communities to contribute their own resources time, knowledge, spaces, and leadership alongside external support. This includes engaging volunteer teachers, community learning spaces, and local materials.
Building community capacity and leadership
Rather than replacing local systems, EiC strengthens them by building the skills of community members, school committees, and local educators to manage, monitor, and sustain education initiatives.
Promoting shared ownership and accountability
When communities are actively involved, they develop a strong sense of ownership and pride in education initiatives. EiC reinforces this through feedback mechanisms, community dialogue, and shared responsibility for protecting learning spaces and children.
Ensuring inclusion and protection through community action
Community engagement helps identify children most at risk of exclusion especially girls, children with disabilities, and displaced learners and supports referral to specialized partners where needed.
Work through local structures rather than replacing them, strengthening existing community education systems
Key actions include:
- Engaging parents, caregivers, and community leaders to support school attendance and retention
- Supporting parent-teacher associations and school/community education committees
- Build capacity of local actors by working with community volunteers, youth leaders, school committees and untrained teachers to sustain learning in emergencies
- Promoting girls’ education and inclusion of children with disabilities through community dialogue
- Establishing feedback and complaints mechanisms to ensure accountability to affected populations
- Supporting community-based identification and referral of at-risk children to protection partners
ALISTER BANK MOBILE APP
Stay connected, enjoy peace of mind
Download the Alister Bank app and simplify your banking. Discover quick, simple and convenient way to take command of your bank account, on your mobile phone.
