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Manual/Handbook/Guide

EiE-GenKit

Published by
Education Cannot Wait (ECW)
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI)
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Manual/Handbook/Guide

Guidance for generative AI in education and research

Published by
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)

The guidance presents an assessment of potential risks GenAI could pose to core humanistic values that promote human agency, inclusion, equity, gender equality, linguistic and cultural diversities, as well as plural opinions and expressions. It proposes key steps for governmental agencies to regulate the use of GenAI including mandating the protection of data privacy and considering an age limit for their use. It outlines requirements for GenAI providers to enable their ethical and effective use in education.

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Emergency Update/Report

Unlocking Potential: The right to education and opportunity education

Published by
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

The 2023 UNHCR Refugee Education Report draws on data from more than 70 countries worldwide to provide the most detailed picture yet of the state of refugee education and enrolment. Its findings reveal that despite areas of progress, more than half of the world’s 14.8 million school-aged refugee children remain out of formal education, risking their future prosperity and denying them the chance to fulfil their potential.

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White Paper

Non-State Armed Groups and Attacks on Education: Exploring Trends and Practices to Curb Violations

Published by
Global Coalition to Protection Education from Attack (GCPEA)

This scoping paper provides background on the topic and explores global trends in non-state armed group attacks on education. This paper also highlights various practices and policies, from the community to international levels, to curb non-state armed group attacks on education and use of schools and universities for non-educational purposes.

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INEE Webinar

Promising Learning through Play Practices in Emergency Response

Published by
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
International Rescue Committee (IRC)
LEGO Foundation
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PlayMatters

This webinar presented findings from the PlayMatters project from its one-year multisectoral Emergency Response Mechanism in conflict-affected Ethiopia.

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Policy Brief

Closing the Gap 3: Promoting Equity and Inclusion in and through Girls’ Education in Crisis

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

This paper summarizes the findings of the monitoring report: Mind the Gap 3: Equity and Inclusion in and through Girls’ Education in Crisis and recommends actions for governments, donors, civil society, collectors and collators of data, and teachers and other education personnel to address the gaps identified in the delivery, planning, funding, and monitoring of girls’ and women’s education in crisis contexts.

English
Portuguese
Report

Mind the Gap 3: Equity and Inclusion in and through Girls' Education in Crisis

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

This report summarizes progress, gaps, challenges and opportunities in improving education and training for girls and women affected by conflict and crisis. This report monitors progress since the Mind the Gap 2 report, and highlights the following thematic areas: recruiting and retaining female teachers, girls with disabilities and gender-responsive inclusive education, and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) education in emergencies.

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Report

Accelerating Change for Children's and Youths' Education through Systems Strengthening. ... Education through Systems Strengthening (ACCESS)

Published by
Accelerated Education Working Group (AEWG)
Dubai Cares
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University of Aukland

This think piece synthesises some of the key findings from across the five countries researched in Phase 1. In it, the authors explore some of the working assumptions and hypotheses about both what quality accelerated education (AE) provision is, and how this might be best achieved.

Arabic
English
French
Spanish
Journal Article

Participatory approaches for strengthening teacher professional development in refugee settings: successes and limitations

Published by
Globalisation, Societies and Education

This article presents critical reflections on a teacher professional development initiative in Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei settlement in Kenya. Drawing on critical development studies, it examines the successes and limitations of efforts to facilitate a community-based participatory process that aims to respond to local refugee teachers’ needs while simultaneously developing training materials as a global good.

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Framework

Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPHA) Competency Framework

Published by
Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

The CPHA Competency Framework builds on the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action to articulate a set of recognised technical competencies for child protection in humanitarian action. It broadly describes expected standards of performance across a number of technical competencies that can be applied to different roles within the sector

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Journal Article

Disasters and the education system: Cyclone Idai and schooling disruption in eastern Chimanimani, Zimbabwe

Published by
Jàmbá - Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

This article examined how the education system was impacted by the Cyclone ldai disaster in eastern Chimanimani District in 2019. In addition, this article discoursed the enrolment trends, pass rate patterns and general quality of education over the 2018–2019 study period. It assessed local and stakeholders’ initiatives towards building a disaster-resilient education system.

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Emergency Update/Report

Education Under Attack in Nigeria

Published by
Save the Children

In April 2014, the abduction from a school in Chibok (Nigeria) made global headlines and sparked the #BringBackOurGirls movement and protests, which attracted public support from celebrities and public figures. However new data analysis by Save the Children reveals that attacks on schools have been since then continuing out the spotlight and highlights the violence that schoolchildren and teachers face across Nigeria.

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Report

Technology in Education: A tool on whose terms?

Published by
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)
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Global Education Monitoring Report

There are often bitter divisions in how the role of technology is viewed, however. These divisions are widening as the technology is evolving at breakneck speed. The 2023 GEM Report on technology and education explores these debates, examining education challenges to which appropriate use of technology can offer solutions (access, equity and inclusion; quality; technology advancement; system management), while recognizing that many solutions proposed may also be detrimental.

Arabic
English
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Swahili
Policy Brief

Centering the Learner for Greater Transformation

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

This brief explores theory and practice on transformative education approaches and their effects on pre-primary and primary-age children’s wellbeing and learning processes in crises. It also introduces creativity-based pedagogies and emphasizes creativity’s importance in achieving transformative learning.

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French
Portuguese
Policy Brief

Promoting Climate-sensitive Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies

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

This brief addresses a gap in climate change and education literature: young children who are affected by crises. It outlines multi-sectoral early childhood care and education (ECCE) interventions that can serve as solutions to broader climate change mitigation and adaptation goals.

English
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Training Material

Teacher Well-being: Training on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Teach

Published by
Edukans

The manual provides trainers and facilitators with strategically selected materials that they can use to guide them in designing training programmes filled with knowledge and skills. The aim is to support teachers, enabling them to cope and to be well in various contexts of displacement, emergency or adversity.

English
Journal Article

The imperial entanglements of ‘Education in Emergencies’: from saving souls to saving schools?

Published by
Globalisation, Societies and Education

This paper reflects historically and contemporaneously on the relationship between ‘International Education and Development’ actors and foreign intervention in our colonial past and present, with a particular focus on Education in Emergencies (EiE), a sub-field of research and practice within ‘International Education and Development’.

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Technical Note

Education Interventions for Children Associated with Armed Forces and Armed Groups

Published by
Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action
Plan International
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
US Agency for International Development (USAID)

The findings indicate that joint and integrated Child Protection and Education programming can address the immediate and systemic risks children formerly associated with armed forces and armed groups face returning to learning, such as physical and psychological harm, sexual exploitation and abuse, and re-recruitment into armed forces and armed groups.

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Report

Global Trends: Forced Displacement in 2022

Published by
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

Global forced displacement is at an all-time high, with the number of forcibly displaced people doubling over the past decade. Today, the global figure exceeds 110 million people forced to flee from persecution, conflict, violence and human rights violations. 

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Manual/Handbook/Guide

Advancing Climate-Resilient Education Technical Guidance

Published by
US Agency for International Development (USAID)

This Guidance builds on the USAID 2022–2030 Climate Strategy and the 2018 USAID Education Policy to support USAID Missions and partners who seek to integrate climate action and awareness into education programs and are committed to achieving climate-resilient education systems and fostering climate-resilient learners. It outlines how to identify opportunities for climate action that respond to known climate hazards through mitigative, adaptive, and transformative actions.

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Toolkit

Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit

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

The Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit compiles resources on: inclusive education, education in emergencies, disability inclusive education, and distance education across the humanitarian-development nexus.

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Report

Learning Recovery to Acceleration: A Global Update on Country Efforts to Improve Learning and Reduce Inequalities

Published by
World Bank

This report examines what countries are doing to recover and accelerate learning, and how they are doing it. The report aims to identify effective or promising at-scale interventions and policies to recover and accelerate learning, and to distill implementation lessons. The focus is on primary and secondary education and on the responses employed once schools reopened after pandemic-related disruptions.

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