ECDiE Programming Library

This report aims to highlight one major initiative, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) implementation of the Reach Up and Learn program in the Middle East, and the ways in which this initiative is providing vital support to both children and their caregivers affected by the Syrian refugee crisis.

This document provides guidance on the assessment, research, design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of MHPSS programmes in emergency settings. Although designed specifically for emergency contexts (including protracted crises), the framework may also be applicable for the transition phases from emergency to development (including disaster risk reduction initiatives).

The 2019 Child Protection Minimum Standards handbook is a practical tool for humanitarian actors to join and lead child protection in humanitarian settings.

Drawing from existing frameworks of implementation research and the findings from our analysis, we present a framework for ECD implementation research in humanitarian settings and propose an agenda for future research.

Aimed for use in diverse country contexts, this package of tools guides local adaptation, design, planning and implementation of community based IYCF counselling and support services at scale

This resource kit contains a series of tools for children and young people to use to analyze conflict, manage conflict and build peace. Tools include practical steps to use the tool, visual illustrations and feedback from children and youth.

This guideline examines the evidence and makes recommendations and remarks on the implementation of some of the details of breastfeeding counselling, such as frequency, timing, mode and provider of breastfeeding counselling, to improve breastfeeding practices.

This guide analyses the broad spectrum of factors that influence whether a child successfully transitions in to primary school.

This Guidance Note has been developed to support parenting interventions for violence prevention, and includes an explicit focus on addressing the gender norms that underpin violence. It brings together the current evidence and emerging experience of the importance of supporting positive parenting in the prevention of and response to all forms of violence, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.

This free practical training is designed for people working in Early Childhood Development (ECD) who are responsible for the creation of sustainable and culturally relevant parenting programmes.

This brief guidance provides a definition of disability, tips on supporting those with disabilities, an overview of disability inclusion principles, and practical guidelines for making inclusive child friendly spaces. 

This guidebook provides background information on ECD and DRR, and sets out processes for assessing the capacity and needs at community levels to further identify future steps to improve ECD in DRR. It addresses the vulnerability faced by children and the efforts to mitigate underlying causes of these vulnerabilities.

This manual provides information to assist early childhood programs with making emergency plans to help keep their program, center, or home safe before, during, and after an emergency.

This checklist provides a package of essential actions required to ensure disability-inclusive humanitarian action in line with the IASC guideline, CCCs, UNICEF Emergency Procedures, and guidance. It is a companion to UNICEF’s Guidance on including children with disabilities in humanitarian action.

A systematic review of existing evidence was carried out for the project. It revealed that relatively few studies of CFS had been completed and that these were generally not designed in a robust enough manner to infer impact. Included is a Research Report and Summary Findings, and Tools and Guidance, which provides practical guidance to child protection and MHPSS practitioners for monitoring and evaluating child friendly spaces.

The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide supports evaluation specialists and non-specialists in every stage of an evaluation, from initial decision to final dissemination.

As PlayMatters’ interventions were still in nascent stages of development when the COVID-19 pandemic forced school closures around the world, including in East Africa, the consortium quickly pivoted to develop a family-friendly home learning program to help caregivers engage their children in educational play.

This toolkit is written as a quick reference guide to all those working in child protection in emergencies in the Pacific. It aims to provide practical tips and operational guidance to those working in the social service sector, the security and justice sectors, as well as those working in humanitarian assistance including camp managers, relief workers, and others.

This needs assessment, conducted in Herat, Ghor and Badghis, used a qualitative child-centred and participatory methodological approach, and aimed to contribute to closing the knowledge gaps and to generate highquality in-depth evidence of the situation of children’s rights and well-being in western Afghanistan.

This manual was written for staff who may be called upon to respond to the issues facing children in a humanitarian emergency. It provides practical tools and templates to plan responses; these also can be used for disaster preparedness. Some of the tools were developed or adapted from documents created by a number of child-focused NGOs and UN agencies.

This course has been designed to support you in understanding, planning for and using the Washington Group Questions (WGQs) to identify persons with disabilities in humanitarian action.

This Guidance addresses multisectoral coordination for Early Childhood Development in Emergencies (ECDiE), using Education Diplomacy concepts and practices to provide practical guidance to ECDiE practitioners.

This technical note supports nutrition and health colleagues own early childhood development sensitive approaches as integral to nutrition and health activities in emergencies.

This guidance note outlines key principles and practical measures for decision-makers to consider before, during and after the transition from closure to reopening. It focuses on safe operations in ECE settings, staff training and support, child well-being and development, and parental communication and support.

This report presents learning and recommendations emerging from the Global Partners Project (GPP), an initiative to strengthen education in emergencies (EiE) coordination.

This toolkit has been produced to support people and agencies working in crisis situations so they are better able to understand and support children’s everyday play. The toolkit aims to support everyday, community-based play opportunities for children in crisis situations.

This series of booklets provides insight into the situation of children with disabilities in humanitarian contexts, highlights the ways in which they are excluded from humanitarian action, and offers practical actions and tips to better include children and adolescents with disabilities in all stages of humanitarian action.

This report documents the human-centred design process used in a project conducted in 2020 in Nairobi, Kenya. It includes research tools that can be used in other contexts, as well as the adaptations that were made to research tools to ensure they were inclusive. These tools are followed by the main lessons learned, and recommendations for others who want to implement a similar process. 

The strategies and approaches included in the framework will help in accelerating actions for children’s, adolescents’ and caregivers’ mental health and psychosocial wellbeing in national and regional development strategies.

The analytical framework was created to support the identification of informational and analytical needs for the wider humanitarian community, including the development of secondary data reviews (SDRs).

With strong global attention focused on how to scale-up multisectoral actions in nutrition leveraging existing platforms, this case study looks at the enabling factors that informed and led to the government’s decision to scale-up nutrition-sensitive actions through Malawi’s ECD platform.

This page covers food handling in emergencies and feeding disaster victims.

The objective of this manual is to provide comprehensive guidance on child care in emergencies. Each chapter summarizes the main ways of diagnosis, treatment and prevention using flow charts. 

In this paper we describe ways to measure variables of interest when evaluating the implementation of a program to improve early childhood development (ECD). The variables apply to programs delivered to parents in group sessions and home or clinic visits, as well as in early group care for children.

The Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) is a joint needs assessment tool that can be used in sudden onset emergencies, including IASC System-Wide Level 3 Emergency Responses (L3 Responses).

This document provides States Parties, ministries, and relevant sectors and stakeholders with an overview of the key elements for overarching, allhazard, multisectoral coordination for emergency preparedness and health security, informed by best practices, country case studies and technical input from an expert group.

The World Health Organization and UNICEF in collaboration with partners have developed the Nurturing Care Handbook. Like the Nurturing Care Framework, the Handbook is organized around five strategic actions.

This toolkit is intended to provide UNICEF country offices, and the national governments they support and their partners, with the necessary guidance and tools for combining WASH inventions with nutrition programmes to maximize nutrition outcomes in the EAP region.

This Operational Guidance on Breastfeeding Counselling in Emergencies (OG-BFC/E) is a pragmatic guide which covers key considerations and potential adaptations when applying WHO’s 2018 guidelines in an emergency setting.

This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a 12-session, community-wide, parenting programme implemented in Uganda to promote child health, growth and cognitive development and to improve maternal well-being.

This case study provides a look at the process of adapting and piloting Vroom for Syrian refugee parents and families. Vroom empowers parents and caregivers of young children to turn everyday moments into brain-building moments.

Parenting on the Move (PoM) has been developed with the objective to support parents in situations of migration/refugeehood to provide the conditions for well-being, resilience, and education of children of kindergarten and school age. PoM provides psychosocial support, education, and entertainment; it encourages family cohesion and intercultural exchange.

This guidance identifies evidence-based multisectoral intervention packages, programmatic delivery platforms, contributions to sector goals, implementation strategies and organisational arrangements needed to advance the ECD agenda according to the needs and the situation at regional and country levels.

This guidance note has been developed to support efforts to strengthen the meaningful participation, representation, and leadership of local and national humanitarian actors (L/NAs) within IASC humanitarian coordination structures.

The Toolkit provides recommendations and resources to strengthen inclusive education programming to enable Save the Children to achieve greater successes in the provision of high-quality ECCD and basic education as promoted by the Quality Learning Framework, also in emergency and humanitarian context.

The OG-IFE was introduced in 1999 to outline evidence-based actions to safeguard the health of infants and young children in emergencies. The OG-IFE is intended for policy-makers, decision-makers and programmers working in emergency preparedness and response, including governments, UN agencies, (I)NGOs, donors, volunteer groups and the private/business sector.

This set of comprehensive guidelines outlines a framework and set of principles intended to ensure that the rights and needs of separated children are effectively addressed.