Last year the Global Partnership for Education (then the Education for All – Fast Track Initiative) and its partners including NGOs and development agencies helped South Sudan with its national education planning at a Consultative Workshop on Education and Fragility Southern Sudan.

The event took place in Juba, South Sudan from February 16 – 17, 2011 and was organized by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE). The main objective of the workshop was to help the South Sudanese government with the development of the country's education programs. It also aimed to harmonize aid efforts in the education sector.

Participants were able to complete a number of actions including:

• Discussing the conflict issues impacting the education sector in Southern Sudan;
• Identifying some of the key conflict dynamics in Southern Sudan;
• Analyzing how education plays a role in key conflict dynamics in Southern Sudan; and
• Generating approaches for how education could address key conflict dynamics in Southern Sudan.