Ms. Anna Seeger is a Programme Specialist in IIEP’s Technical Cooperation team. Anna’s main area of work is crisis-sensitive planning in the education sector, including planning for displaced populations. This includes technical support to the preparation of crisis-sensitive Education Sector Plans and operational planning. In collaboration with ministries of education and researchers, she also conducts Institutional Analyses and develops capacity development plans that aim at strengthening educational administrations.
She also teaches at IIEP’s Advanced Training Program (ATP) and supports online and face-to-face training programmes in educational planning for ministry of education and partner staff.
Anna joined IIEP in 2015 after several assignments with the German Cooperation for International Development (GIZ), the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and as an independent consultant.
She lived and worked in Yemen, Pakistan, Lebanon and Nepal and has travelled extensively in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Education
- Executive Master of Public Administration from London School of Economics (UK)
- M.A. in Educational Sciences, Sociology, Peace-and Conflict Studies and Modern Standard Arabic from Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)
- Certificate in Gender Studies from Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)
- Certificate in Modern Standard Arabic from The Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies, Sana’a (Yemen)
Publications
- Seeger, A. 2017. ‘Towards more effective Education Administrations’ in: Putting Plans into Action, The IIEP Newsletter, Vol XXXIII N2 July 2017-December 2017.
- Seeger, A. with Pye, L. 2016. Uganda: Strengthening education sector planning capacities for conflict and disaster risk management, Paris: IIEP.
- Seeger, A. and Kajumba, J. 2016. How Uganda breaks the habit of ad-hoc responses to crisis in education - Finding ways to not let conflict and disaster hamper Uganda’s progress towards education for all. Blog post on the GPE Education for All blog.
- Majewski, B., Seeger, A., George, K., Tebbe, K., Petten, N., Canteli, C., Rizvi, Z. 2015. Global 2015 UNICEF PBEA programme evaluation. New York: UNICEF.
- Seeger, A.; Sula, G. 2013. The use of ICT in the Yemeni Education Sector, A Feasibility Study. Sana’a: Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
- Seeger, A. 2013. The German BACKUP Initiative – Education in Africa: A bilateral way to better access and utilization of international funding for education. Conference paper accepted by the UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development – Education & Development Post 2015: Reflecting, Reviewing, Re-visioning. Oxford, 10 – 12 September 2013
- Tebbe, K.; Seeger, A. 2012. "Towards Education Sector-level Conflict Analysis: A Review of the INEE Workshop Methodology". Journal of Peace, Conflict & Development, February 2012.
- Seeger, A.; Tebbe, K. 2011. "Catching missed opportunities: Inter-agency collaboration to improve youth programming during and after emergencies". Monday Developments Magazine, August 2011. Washington DC: InterAction
