Project Management in Education Empowering Projects for Emergency / War-Affected Regions

The communities confronted with disaster, destruction, and displacement in any part of the world are faced with numerous challenges, which are in turn affected by that particular community’s socio-economic, cultural, health, and educational issues. In most cases, the impact of disaster is greatest for women and children, second only to the destruction of civic infrastructure .The launching of relief projects that include well planned and organized education projects not only assist in enhancing the educational level and skill development of children, but also reduce the their psychological trauma.

Many countries are absorbing the shocks of natural and man-made calamities in various forms and magnitude, by means of such endeavors as Internally Displaced People (IDPs) camps of Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Pakistan, etc. The education projects are usually launched to accommodate the affected people of the area, and cover a wide range of application areas including the establishment of make-shift schools for the continuation of education forchildren. 

 Project management techniques definitely help to channel the work into a coordinated effort, so as to optimize the output of such projects. In this paper, we discuss education-empowering projects for emergency / war affected areas.

Affects of Emergency / War On Educational Infrastructure

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