The Tool Kit has been developed for UNICEF officers, and presents information and tools to enable them to prepare for and respond to emergencies to comply with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Emergencies in the education sector. The Tool Kit is based on the premise that in order to respond effectively to the delivery of education in emergencies, UNICEF offices must take the requisite preparedness actions.

An update on Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops on the INEE Minimum Standards. . Eight of ten planned TOT workshops were completed in 2006, training over 200 education and humanitarian trainers.

This paper is based on an analysis of documents collected by the Save the Children Alliance on accelerated learning and alternative education programmes. The documents, listed in the reference section, describe accelerated learning approaches implemented by a number of different organisations in a variety of countries.

School links provide pupils with new horizons and new opportunities. But many children do not have even the opportunity to go to school. The UK Government is committed to ensuring that all children, everywhere, have that chance in life.

This paper presents the case for education as an essential humanitarian activity, and the INEE Minimum Standards as a tool for quality and accountability within those interventions.

Based on the initiatives described in these documents, this paper summarises the main elements affecting the design and implementation of accelerated learning programmes in post-conflict settings and identifies best practices and pitfalls.

This Guide has been created to provide advice on useful strategies for implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action. It represents a distillation of the wealth of experience that exists throughout the world on how to manage and reduce disaster risks.

Esta Guía se ha creado para ofrecer asesoramiento sobre estrategias útiles para la aplicación del Marco de Acción de Hyogo. Representa una recopilación de la amplia experiencia que existe en todo el mundo sobre cómo gestionar y reducir los riesgos de desastre.

This report, covering the period of August 2005 to September 2006, calls on the Burundian Government to grant unfettered access, for child protection purposes, to all military, security and police detention centres and to cooperate with the United Nations country team and child protection partners, and on donor countries to make long-term commitments and adopt more systematic approaches.

The Education for All Monitoring Report 2007 looks at the benefits of programmes for the very young and why countries have been slow to implement policies that integrate care, health, nutrition and education.