Educational planning is a matter of context.

From building the right school in the right place at the right time, deploying the teaching workforce where it is needed; from creating a curriculum that reflects local realities, to taking into account the risks and challenges of the environment, educational planning is anchored in adapting the delivery of education to the communities it serves.

By mixing education system data with georeferenced information, educational planners and managers can generate highly contextualized policies, ensuring:

1. greater equality in the distribution of educational opportunities,
2. better adaptation of these opportunities to the needs of local communities, and
3. more efficient use of all available resources.

IIEP-UNESCO is organizing its first Geospatial data in ED planning webinar in order to present the work accomplished over the past year on the issue and plans for 2021.

This meeting is also an opportunity for the geospatial data community of practice and ministries of education interested in geospatial data to meet the IIEP development team and their partners. Finally, the projects realized during the first IIEP Hackathon #HackingEdPlanning organized from 29 to 31 January 2021 will also be presented during this event.

• When: 10 February 2021
• Time: 12pm - 1.15 pm UTC
• Where: Online (link will be provided ahead of the event to all registered participants)
• Language: English and with interpretation into French

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