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Review of Education Cluster Co-Leadership
Overview
This review was designed and conducted in 2020-2021, in parallel with the ‘CLARE II’ evaluation that assessed how UNICEF has been delivering on its broader cluster (co)-lead responsibilities. The two exercises were conducted by the same team of consultants and intentionally informed each other. This review should thus be seen as a companion piece to the CLARE II evaluation report and read in conjunction with it to maximize its use.
The review has considered progress achieved – or not achieved – by UNICEF and Save the Children International (SCI) in their roles and capacities as co-Cluster Lead Agencies (co-CLAs). The aim was to draw lessons that will allow consistent high-quality cluster co-leadership and to provide guidance and options to inform the working arrangements in 2022 and beyond.
The review reiterates the CLARE II findings with respect to the Global Education Cluster (GEC) co-leads’ ability to generally support the core cluster coordination functions and deliver on their coordination responsibilities. Yet it also exposes elements that have remained unaddressed since the 2007 MoU between UNICEF and STI and have continued to hamper the fulfilment of the arrangement, while describing the current constraints in the partnership that should be urgently tackled. These include, inter alia: the lack of clarity around what shared and joint leadership entails; limited attention to defining this concept and the respective comparative advantages between UNICEF and SCI; funding and resource mobilization arrangements, which have contributed to perceptions of inequality and power imbalance in the partnership; and a generally limited oversight of the operation of the cluster that translates into a weak level of accountability of the cluster co-lead agencies. The review generated a set of recommendations addressed to the global co-lead agencies, and a smaller set of recommendations for cluster co-leads at the country level.
Report Details
| Year Published | |
| Type | |
| Joint | No |
| Partner/s | N/A |
| Consultant name | |
| Agency Focal Point | Thorodd Ommundsen |
| Focal Point Email | tommundsen@unicef.org |
| Managed by Independent Evaluation Office | No |
| Geographic Scope | Country |
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