This report aims to generate learning on capacity gaps among EiE practitioners operating in the West and Central Africa (WCA) region. In doing so, it aims to guide and enrich the design and content of future EiE capacity strengthening initiatives in the region, while advocating for its importance.

Ce rapport a pour but de generer des enseignements sur les capacites. manquantes parmi les praticiens de l'ESU qui interviennent dons cette region. Ce faisant, il vise à guider et à enrichir la conception et le contenu des futures initiatives de renforcement des capacites d'ESU dons la region, tout en mettant en exergue l'importance de ce domaine.

The purpose of this review is to provide evidence on effective, equitable, and inclusive SEL practices that can be delivered via distance learning modalities in USAID-recipient countries. The scope of this review includes formal and non-formal basic, secondary and higher education programs, as well as workforce development programs. Researchers analyzed documents and interviewed key informants from 22 programs offering SEL using distance learning modalities.

This supplementary mini-report presents case studies from surveys and interviews on how five of the selected innovators have responded to COVID-19 as a result of widespread school closures. The purpose is to illuminate how a variety of innovations have coped with the challenges they faced (and continue to face), and shed light on the changes/learnings since. 

This document presents the results of a survey  assessing the WASH readiness of schools in UNHCR- supported refugee camps and refugee settlements. UNHCR and partners are using the results to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) COVID-19 mitigation measures in schools and design targeted improvements to WASH facilities to allow for safe operation of schools.

More than seven months into the pandemic, COVID-19 is putting education on hold for more than 137 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is according to a new UNICEF report about the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on education. 

Education systems were already in crisis even before the pandemic and are now facing the likelihood of drastic budget cuts. If governments and development partners do not act immediately, this crisis could turn into a catastrophe from which millions of children may never recover. 

IRC conducted a learning assessment in the city of Cúcuta to better understand these challenges and shine a light on children’s needs. This brief will discuss several of the key findings from this assessment to illustrate the extent to which schooling, or lack thereof, is impacting children’s outcomes in Colombia.

This ½-day training (3.5 hours) is designed to build basic competencies around psychosocial support (PSS) and well-being for teachers working in crisis and conflict-affected contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Más de siete meses después de que iniciara la pandemia, el COVID-19 está poniendo la educación en pausa de más de 137 millones de niños, niñas y adolescentes en América Latina y el Caribe, según un nuevo informe de UNICEF acerca de los devastadores impactos del COVID-19 en la educación.