Bridging climate and educational planning: lessons from Cambodia and Malawi

Martín is a Peruvian sociologist who served as the Minister of Education at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. He oversaw the country's pre-primary, primary, secondary, and higher education systems and designed the national strategy for distance education in response to the pandemic. Between 2018 and 2020, he served as the head of Peru’s National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU), the regulatory body of Peru's university system, where he led the reform for improving the quality of higher education. From 2015 to 2018, Martín was also a member of its Board of Directors.

Leonora MacEwen is a Senior Programme Specialist at IIEP and the Cluster Lead for IIEP’s work on Equity and Resilience. This includes working with countries on the development of sector plans, as well as risk analyses and risk reduction strategies for the education sector, and integrating climate change adaptation and conflict and disaster risk reduction into education sector analyses and planning documents. It also involves planning for the inclusion of forcibly displaced populations with ministries of education and their partners. Finally, this work includes planning for climate change adaptation and environmental sustainability, including enhancing ministries of education's capacities to access and use data and information on climate change, emergencies, and other relevant data for crisis-sensitive planning.