Paper details

Paper authors	Rinad Bakhti
In panel on	Beyond the Local: Cultural translatability in humanitarian interventions
Paper presenter(s) will be presenting	In-Person / Online

Abstract

Abstract
Many interventions have been developed to improve educational outcomes among conflict-affected children. Understanding how these interventions are developed and implemented can help to inform the development and implementation of similar interventions in other crisis settings.
We will present a toolkit of how interventions can be developed and implemented locally – without cultural referents rooted in external epistemologies – which can be used by other actors attempting to create and implement their own educational interventions. To do this, we focus on one such intervention, We Love Reading (WLR), a community-led, shared book-reading programme that was developed in Jordan by a Jordanian-run NGO.
We conducted a grounded theory analysis on 21 semi-structured interviews with individuals who developed WLR and/or were involved in its implementation. Participants indicated that the following factors contributed to the efficacy of WLR: a strong root and derivation from the local context; engagement with the community; simplicity and flexibility of the idea; creation of sense of ownership and leadership in those implementing the program; challenge of maintaining motivation in volunteers; the ability to address challenges with help from peers and the community; seeing immediate positive impacts; and maintaining sustainability through of sense of duty to the community.

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