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.