ECDiE Programming Library

The EiE Toolkit aims to raise the quality of Save the Children's EiE programmes through providing guidance on how to employ a more systematic and tools-based approach to analysing EiE needs and designing and implementing programmes.

he toolkit contains components that include Introduction for proposal development and advocacy; Community Action for initial non-formal education or informal learning; Teacher Training to support teachers/facilitators; Learner Assessment tools, and a comprehensive Community Action component to support literacy and well-being in the immediate aftermath of a crisis.

The intent of this package is to improve and ease the process of gathering and generating evidence. Critical to this is ensuring that when possible, needs assessments are joint in nature, utilizing the individual and comparative strengths of multiple organizations.

The Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) and the Emergency Capacity Building Project (ECB) have produced this guide to fill the gap that existed for a practical resource that pulls together the main lessons learned from various initiatives and experiences.

This course explains the processes and standards related to situation analyses in emergency preparedness and response.

The purpose of the Social and Behavior Change Communication for Emergency Preparedness Implementation Kit is to provide a set of key considerations for SBCC activities in emergency situations. It is our hope that by completing the exercises presented in this I-Kit, national governments will be better prepared to manage serious public health events.

The first of its kind Strengthening Rapid Education Response Toolkit provides country or field-level Education teams practitioners and coordinators with a practical resource and advocacy tool to ensure education’s inclusion in first phase humanitarian response. This includes demonstrating and advocating for the importance of including education in RRMs for a holistic and child-focused response to non-education actors.

The Caregiver Support Intervention (CSI) aims to strengthen parenting by lowering stress and improving psychosocial wellbeing among refugee parents, while also increasing knowledge and skill related to positive parenting. We describe the findings of a two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial of the CSI with Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The primary aim was to test the feasibility of our study methodology prior to conducting a definitive RCT.

This brief focuses on some of the lessons learned by the Sesame Workshop-affiliated ECDiE Coordinator and the ECDiE Working Group in Colombia in increasing inclusion of ECD in data collection and needs assessments used to develop HRPs.

The toolkit is made up of 4 modules: Training children on disaster risk reduction through the hazard, vulnerability and capacity assessment; Planning, monitoring and evaluating child-centred disaster risk reduction programmes; Action planning with children on disaster risk reduction; and Advocacy with children on disaster risk reduction.

The following brief showcases the IRC’s approach to culturally relevant ECD, impactful program design, and implementation, contrasting work across two diverging contexts.

In this short and clear brief, we define early childhood development and why is it important to understand specially in crisis contexts. We also explain the Nurturing care framework and how to use it to mitigate risks for young children in crisis settings and supporting them to have a healthy development.

This brief talks about the threats of young children in crisis being exposed to pro-longed stress and adversities and how to best mitigate the impact on their brain development. It shares how the humanitarian sector can incorporate early childhood development programs in their emergency response plans and programs through the nurturing framework lens.

This brief focuses on integrating early childhood development in emergencies within nutrition sector response plans and programs.

This brief explains how early childhood development contributes to Gender equality. It focuses on how ECD services prevent gender based violence in emergencies and how it closes the gender gap in parental care. It shares examples of several ECDIE and Gender interventions in emergency context and recommendations on how humanitarian workers can promote gender equality through ECDIE.

This brief sheds light on the importance of supporting the youngest children in crisis to access high quality early learning programs. It shares evidence on the critical window from birth to 5 years where the children’s ability to learn and develop is the highest, but is also the most vulnerable period of their lives.

This brief highlights the importance of supporting caregivers’ mental health in crisis settings to young children’s holistic development. It presents data on the severity of the global mental health crisis, which is being exacerbated by the lack of funding for psychosocial support for children, youth, and families.

This brief highlights how child protection is critical to preventing lifelong consequences for young children exposed to violence and trauma during emergencies. It further emphasizes that child protection can provide positive inputs that reduce and prevent the potentially lifelong negative impacts of emergencies on young children.

The Caring for the Caregiver (CFC) package focuses on enabling front-line workers to promote caregivers' mental health and emotional well-being. CFC provides front-line workers with skills and activities to address barriers by encouraging self-care, partner and family engagement, and problem-solving barriers to resources.

The study outlines how the policy and program characteristics identified may represent levers or barriers to the effective operationalization of ECDEiE in Colombia. We discuss how these attributes could be considered in the trans-sectoral dialogue between ECDE and humanitarian actors with the aim of strengthening ECDEiE systems globally.