ECDiE Programming Library

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.