Domain 1: Foundational Standards

This domain details standards for:

  • Community participation: participation and resources
  • Coordination
  • Analysis: assessment, response strategies, monitoring, evaluation.

The standards described here are critical for an effective education response. They are the basis for the application of the standards for Access and Learning Environment, Teaching and Learning, Teachers and Other Education Personnel, and Education Policy.

Supporting Resources
Manual/Handbook/Guide

Child Rights Programming: How to Apply Rights-Based Approaches to Programming

Published by
Save the Children

This handbook aims to provide an introduction to Child Rights Programming - Save the Children's approach to the use of human rights principles and standards in its work with children, their families, carers and communities.

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Collection

EiE Harmonized Training Package

Developed by INEE and the IASC Education Cluster, the EiE harmonized training package combines training materials from the original INEE Minimum Standards, IIEP and the Front Line Responders training packages.

Manual/Handbook/Guide

Guidance on HIV in Education in Emergencies

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

This Guidance on HIV in Education in Emergencies provides information for education practitioners who provide, manage or support education services in emergencies.

English
Spanish
Manual/Handbook/Guide

Guidebook for Planning Education in Emergencies and Reconstruction

Published by
UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (UNESCO-IIEP)

The Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction aims to support educational authorities in providing equal access to quality education for children affected by conflict or disaster - which can also provide a unique opportunity to reform an education system.

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Manual/Handbook/Guide

Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action

Published by
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

The Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action were developed to assist humanitarian actors and communities affected by humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, implement, monitor and evaluate essential action for the prevention and mitigation of gender based violence across all sectors of humanitarian action.

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Arabic
Manual/Handbook/Guide

Guidelines on Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings

Published by
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

The Guidelines for Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is a tool for field actors in the humanitarian community to establish a multi-sectoral coordinated approach to gender-based violence in emergency settings.

Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

IASC Gender Handbook for Humanitarian Action

Published by
Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

Updating the original 2006 handbook, the new version reflects current humanitarian coordination mechanisms and the recent commitment gains towards gender in humanitarian action developed at international fora such as the World Humanitarian Summit, the Grand Bargain and the Sendai Framework Agreement.

Arabic
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Background Paper

INEE Background Paper on Psychosocial Support and Social & Emotional Learning for Children & Youth

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

The purpose of this paper is to clarify relevant terminologies and approaches relating to psychosocial well-being and social and emotional learning (SEL) in education in crisis affected contexts, and to explore how psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning relate to one another.

Arabic
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Guidance Note on Gender

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI)

The INEE Guidance Note on Gender provides strategies to ensure that girls, boys, women, and men in contexts of conflict and crisis equally enjoy the protection and learning outcomes that quality education can provide.

Arabic
English
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Portuguese
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

The purpose of the INEE Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support is to clarify the importance of supporting the psychosocial wellbeing of children and youth, and to offer specific strategies for how to incorporate psychosocial support (PSS) into education responses.

Arabic
Chinese (Mandarin)
English
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Turkish
Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
,
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery

These guidance notes have been developed for policymakers and planners of local, regional and national government bodies and all other organizations interested or engaged in enhancing the safety of school populations and the resiliency of the buildings they occupy.

Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
Chinese (Mandarin)
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Minimum Standards Linkages to Sphere Minimum Standards

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

This document highlights the relationships between the INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery and the Sphere Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response in order to provide a cohesive outline of an integrated, multi-sectoral response.

English
French
Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

The INEE pocket guide, “Education in Emergencies: Including Everyone”, takes a broad look at inclusive education principles and the types of actions that can be taken to make education in crises contexts more inclusive.

Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

INEE Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

The INEE Pocket Guide to Supporting Learners with Disabilities is specifically aimed at providing practical advice to teachers/educators, as one of the biggest challenges in the development of inclusive education is helping practitioners to turn theory into practice.

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Bahasa Indonesia
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Report

INEE Minimum Standards as a Tool for Donors: Potential Uses, Challenges and Recommendations

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

This document represents a summary of the framing paper on potential donor use of INEEs Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, Chronic Crises and Early Reconstruction (INEE Minimum Standards), together with the additional recommendations and suggestions made during the working group discussions at the policy roundtable.

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Manual/Handbook/Guide

International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED)

Published by
UNESCO International Institute for Education Planning (UNESCO-IIEP)

Initially developed by UNESCO in the 1970s, and first revised in 1997, the ISCED classification serves as an instrument to compile and present education statistics both nationally and internationally.

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French
Spanish
Arabic
Manual/Handbook/Guide

The UNHCR Tool for Participatory Assessment in Operations

Published by
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The UNHCR Tool outlines 10 basic steps to ensure women, girls, boys, and men participate in analyzing protection problems together; in discussing capacities to face protection problems, and in finding solutions together.

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