The global analysis included interviews with 55 global actors involved in global partnerships that address education in emergencies and an analysis of 227 organizational documents. Together these provided insights into key themes relating to the research questions, including private sector engagement, coordination, and participation, as well as crisis impacts on partnership arrangements.
We created an original database of 440 organizations engaged in Syria refugee education in Lebanon and their partnership arrangements. The purpose was three-fold: to compile a comprehensive list of organizations and activities in the country and sector; to conduct a network analysis of relationships between organizations; and to observe changes to the network structure over time.
In order to gain a more in-depth understanding of partnership processes at the national and more localized levels of educational programing within Lebanon, we analyzed a subset of 16 organizations and their partnerships, representing different types of entities, and conducted three in-depth partnership case studies involving interviews, site visits, and observations over a three-year period.
