EiE Glossary

The EiE Glossary contains more than 450 key education in emergencies (EiE) terms, their definitions, and sources. The glossary aims to promote a common understanding of key EiE technical terms and to support correct and universal usage of these terms.

A
Ableism
Accelerated education program
Accelerated learning
Acceptable risk
Access
Accessibility
Accountability
Accreditation
Adaptation
Adequate care
Adolescence
Adolescent
Adult education
Adult literacy rate
Adversity
Advocacy
Age-appropriate
Age-specific enrollment rate
All-hazards
Alternative education
Analysis
Anti-racism
Assessment
Asset-based approach
Assistive devices and technology
Asylum seeker
Attacks on education
Attendance
B
Barriers
Baseline assessment
Baseline data
Baseline survey
Basic education
Basic learning needs
Behavioral problem
Best interests of the child
Bias
Blended learning
Bridging program
Bullying
C
Capacity
Capacity assessment
Capacity sharing
Caregiver
Cash and Voucher Assistance
Catch-up program
Certificate
Certification
Child labor
Child protection
Child safeguarding
Child wellbeing
Child-centered approach
Child-friendly
Child-friendly spaces and schools
Children
Children and adolescents at risk
Children associated with armed forces and armed groups
Chronic emergency
Classroom management
Climate change
Climate change adaptation
Climate change education
Climate change mitigation
Climate displacement
Climate justice
Climate migration
Climate resilience
Climate risk
Cluster Approach
Code of conduct
Cognitive
Colonialism
Communication
Community
Community education committee
Community participant
Community representative
Compensation
Competencies
Complex emergency
Compulsory education
Conflict
Conflict analysis
Conflict mitigation
Conflict risk reduction
Conflict sensitive education
Conflict sensitivity
Conflict transformation
Contextualization
Contingency planning
Continuity of education
Coordination
Core curriculum
Country-based pooled funds
Crisis
Crisis-sensitive educational planning
Critical facilities
Cross-cutting issues
Culture and the arts
Curriculum
Curriculum development
D
Data
Data collection
Data collection approaches
Data compilation
Data responsibility
Decision maker
Decoloniality
Decolonization
Designing
Developmentally appropriate practice
Differentiated learning
Digital fluency
Digital literacy
Disability
Disability-inclusive education
Disaggregated data
Disaster
Disaster preparedness
Disaster response
Disaster risk
Disaster risk management
Disaster risk reduction
Discrimination
Displacement
Distance education
Distance learning
Distress
Diversity
Do no harm
Double-shift system
Dropout
Dropout rate by grade
Duty-bearer
E
Early childhood development
Early childhood development in emergencies
Early childhood education and care
Early childhood stimulation
Early intervention
Early warning system
Economic strengthening
Education authorities
Education Cluster
Education facilities
Education for peacebuilding
Education in emergencies
Education management and information system
Education personnel
Education policy
Education provider
Education response
Education sector plan
Education sector planning
Education system
Education technology
Educational activity
Emergency
Emergency education
Emergency management
Emergency preparedness
Emergency relief
Emergency services
Emotional disturbance
Emotional wellbeing
Employment
Enablers
Enrollment
Environmental emergency
Equality
Equity
Equivalence
Ethnicity
Evaluation
Evidence-based
Exposure
Extensive risk
F
Facilities and services
Feedback
Financing
Forced displacement
Forced migration
Formal education
Fragile state
Functional literacy
Fundraising
G
Gender
Gender analysis
Gender awareness
Gender discrimination
Gender disparity
Gender dynamics
Gender equality
Gender equity
Gender inequality
Gender mainstreaming
Gender needs
Gender parity
Gender relations
Gender responsive
Gender sensitivity
Gender transformative education
Gender with Age Marker
Gender-based violence
Gender-neutral policies
Global citizenship education
Green skills
Gross enrollment rate
H
Hazard
Health emergency
Hidden curriculum
Higher education
HIV and AIDS
HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support
Host community
Human rights
Human rights education
Human rights-based approach
Humanitarian action
Humanitarian actors
Humanitarian assistance
Humanitarian Camp Coordination and Management Sector
Humanitarian crisis
Humanitarian Early Recovery Sector
Humanitarian Emergency Telecommunications Sector
Humanitarian Food Security Sector
Humanitarian Health Sector
Humanitarian Livestock Sector
Humanitarian Logistics Sector
Humanitarian Nutrition Sector
Humanitarian principles
Humanitarian program cycle
Humanitarian response
Humanitarian Shelter Sector
Humanitarian WASH Sector
Humanitarian-development coherence
Humanitarian-development-peace nexus
Hybrid learning
I
Impact
Impact evaluation
Impairment
Implementation
In-kind contributions
Incentive teacher
Inclusion
Inclusive education
Indicator
Individualized education plan
Informal learning
Informal tented settlement
Information management
Information sharing protocol
Innovation
Institutional racism
Instruction and learning processes
Integrated approach
Integration
Intensive risk
Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Inter-sectoral linkages
Internal migration
Internally displaced person
International migration
International protection
Intersectionality
J
Joint needs assessment
K
Key informant
Knowledge management
L
Learners
Learning
Learning approaches and cognition
Learning conditions
Learning difficulty
Learning environment
Learning objective
Learning outcome
Learning site
Learning space
Learning support
Least restrictive environment
Lessons learned
Level of education
Life skills
Life skills education
Life-saving educational messages
Literacy
Literacy rate
Livelihood
Livelihood skills
Local and indigenous knowledge systems
Local and national actors
Localization
Locally led humanitarian action
M
Mainstream education
Marginalization
Marginalized groups
Market
Market demand
Market-driven
Mental health
Mental health and psychosocial support
Methods
Migrant
Migration
Mitigation
Monitoring
N
National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction
Natural disaster
Natural hazard
Needs assessment
Net enrollment rate
Net intake rate
Non-formal education
Non-state actors
Non-teaching staff
Numeracy
O
Online learning
Organizations of persons with disabilities
Out-of-school children and youth
Outcome
Output
P
P-codes
Participation
Participatory learning
Peace education
Peacebuilding
Pedagogy
Peer facilitator
Peer review process
Peer support
Physical environment
Physical wellbeing
Play
Policy
Policy maker
Positive care interactions
Positive discipline
Power
Pre-vocational education
Preparedness
Preventing violent extremism
Prevention
Primary data
Primary education
Professional development
Program development
Program evaluation
Prospective disaster risk management
Protecting education from attack
Protection
Protracted crisis
Psychosocial
Psychosocial disabilities
Psychosocial support
Public awareness
Pupil-teacher ratio
Q
Qualitative data
Qualitative research
Quality education
Quantitative data
Quantitative research
R
Race
Racism
Rapid response mechanism
Reasonable accommodation
Recognition
Recovery
Recreation kit
Referral
Refugee
Refugee law
Reintegration
Relevant education
Reliability
Relief
Remedial program
Remote learning
Repeaters
Repetition by grade
Reproductive work
Research
Resettlement
Residual risk
Resilience
Resilience education
Resource mobilization
Response
Returnee
Right to education
Rights-based approach to education
Rights-holder
Risk
Risk assessment
Risk management
Risk transfer
Risk-informed planning
S
Safe learning environment
Safety
Sample
School administration and monitoring
School infrastructure and construction
School level management
School-based management
School-related gender-based violence
Science
Secondary data
Secondary education
Security
Segregation
Sex
Sex- and age-disaggregated data
Sexual and reproductive health
Sexual exploitation and abuse
Shock
Skills
Slow-onset disaster
Social and emotional learning
Social and emotional skills
Social environment
Social protection
Social wellbeing
Special education
Special education needs
Stakeholder
Standard
Stateless person
Strategic plan
Stress
Structural racism
Student
Student- or learner-centered learning
Sudden-onset disaster
Survival skills
Survivor guilt
Sustainable development
Systems strengthening
T
Teacher
Teacher training
Teacher wellbeing
Teachers and other education personnel
Teaching and learning
Technical and vocational education and training
Technical assistance
Technological emergency
Technology
Tertiary education
Trained teacher
Transferable skills
Transitional education plan
Triangulation
Tuition fee
Twin-track approach
U
Unaccompanied and separated children
Universal design
Universal design for learning
Universal primary education
Urban violence
V
Validation
Violence
Violent extremism
Vulnerability
Vulnerable groups
W
Water, sanitation, and hygiene
Wellbeing
Y
Young people
Youth and adolescents
Youth literacy rate
Z
Zero tolerance

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