The objective of the Education in Emergencies Task Force is to provide expert advice and guidance on adjusting country- and global-level estimates on out-of-school population in crisis-affected contexts in a timely and reliable way.

In particular, the Task Force will need to:

• Propose a method for selecting a limited number of crises that should be analyzed based on specific criteria, of which the main one should be that their exclusion results in an underestimation of the global out-of-school population.
• Delineate the geographic extent, population size, and time period that are impacted.
• Outline a process on how to collect any related data that have been reported from these crises contexts and develop criteria of their usefulness for producing timely and reliable country-level estimates on out-of-school rates that are aligned with SDG 4 reporting.
• Carry out analyses for the selected crisis contexts according to an agreed protocol.
• Draw on insights from these analyses, develop technically sound, context-specific, and operationally practical solutions to leverage such existing data in crisis-affected context.
• Compare such evidence with out-of-school population estimates based on official data that might be ignoring the impact of crisis.
• Develop a protocol for reporting these adjustments as updates to the global estimate.