Resources

Drawing from interviews with teenage mothers, pregnant adolescents, and other community members in Maiwut Town, South Sudan, Anne Corwith and Fatimah Ali highlight factors that contributed to the girls’ resilience and motivation to return to school, including their aspiration for financial freedom and having a role model.

Emma Carter and her co-authors studied factors that influenced whether educators in 298 schools in Rwanda felt prepared to deliver remote education during COVID-19. Differences in preparedness aligned with existing inequalities in Rwanda, the availability of material support, and guidance from a school leader.

Craig Davis and Gustavo Páyan-Luna’s field note explores how COVID-19 spurred the USAID-funded Asegurando la Educación program to bring in-person social and emotional learning activities to scale across Honduras by leveraging social media, short videos, and a sports-based program, among other approaches for both students and teachers.

In this field note, Michèle Boujikian, Alice Carter, and Katy Jordan discuss how the NGO Jusoor borrowed from a software engineering methodology to rapidly test assumptions and refine programming to develop Azima, a WhatsApp-based education program for Syrian refugees living in Lebanon during COVID-19.

Carmen Sherry Brown examines the rollout of a virtual tutoring program she developed with parents of children receiving remote learning in the United States during COVID-19. Her field note offers lessons on implementing web-based tutoring, and on developing in-service and pre-service teachers’ capacity to support online learning.

In this field note, Leena Zahir and Janhvi Maheshwari-Kanoria highlight the Internet-Free Education Resource Bank (IFERB), a library of project-based learning activities and guides that can be used offline and in low-resource contexts. Experience piloting IFERB in five countries suggests it contributed to gains in literacy, numeracy, and 21st-century skills.

In his review of Pandemic Education and Viral Politics, Noah Kippley-Ogman suggests that the editors’ discussion of the viral spread of mis- and disinformation about the pandemic, among other subjects featured in the volume, would be of particular interest to readers from the EiE field.

This special issue of the Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE) offers empirical research on students’, parents’, and teachers’ experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Syria, and offers lessons for preparing for future disruptions to schooling from fieldwork in Honduras, Lebanon, the US, and elsewhere.

In their editorial note, Emily Dunlop and Mark Ginsburg place the COVID-19 pandemic in historical, political, and social context and summarize the evidence presented in each of the articles in this special issue.

In this literature review, Kathlyn E. Elliott, Katie A. Mathew, Yiyun Fan, and David Mattson map emergent themes from 124 empirical studies, reports, and historic accounts of Ebola, SARS, MERS, HIV/AIDS, and COVID-19 to the INEE Minimum Standards Framework to assess priority areas for delivering education during health crises.

This guidance note by INEE and the Alliance aims to promote integration and collaboration across the two humanitarian sectors of education and child protection. It orients stakeholders in both sectors to principles, frameworks, opportunities, and resources for program integration in order to ensure efficient, targeted, and effective interventions that result in improved outcomes for children and young people.

This brief advocates for and highlights the benefits of disability-inclusive Early Childhood Development in Emergencies (ECDiE). It includes examples of good practice in disability-inclusive ECDiE programming from around the world; in addition, it provides recommendations for governments, donors, and programmers for a more inclusive ECDiE. 

This guidance note aims to support programme implementers, coordinators, and other humanitarian actors in addressing suicide and self-harm in humanitarian settings. It brings together a wide range of approaches, tools, reference materials, and case examples. It is a practical and concise resource that is applicable across all types of emergencies, organizations, and sectors.

In the INEE 2021 Annual Report, you will find a summary of the network’s many activities and accomplishments, which are organized by INEE’s four strategic priorities and six primary functions: community building, convening, knowledge management, amplifying and advocating, facilitating and learning, and providing.

This is the executive summary of an external evaluation undertaken by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) of the Community- Led Inclusive Quality Education for Refugee Children with Disabilities Initiative. This Initiative is run in Uganda by Cohere and its partner refugee-led organisations (RLOs).

This is the executive summary of an external evaluation undertaken by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) of the Masahati Student Clubs (MSC) programme, which has been implemented along with the Proud to Be a Teacher (PtBT) programme. The MSC is a programme of Madrasati - an NGO launched in 2008 by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abudullah - to support public schools in Jordan. 

This is the executive summary of an external evaluation undertaken by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) of the Little Ripples programme in Chad. Little Ripples is a programme created and run by iACT - an NGO based in California, United States.

This study targeted a total of 11,074 adolescents aged 13-17 years, from 7,815 households across 400 enumeration areas in 20 districts, was conducted by 734 volunteers, 66 teacher trainees, 20 district coordinators, and 40 village coordinators, with support from the local leaders. 

By reflecting on our experiences working with a group of educators serving displaced and refugee learners and by reviewing the open access offers provided by large, international organisations, we identify limitations among existing solutions, many of which are not fully responsive to the needs of teachers in low-resource contexts who might be looking for professional development opportunities.

Developed in consultation with young people, educators, academics, leaders, governing bodies, and climate and environment experts, this paper sets out the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) vision for bringing the relationship between education and climate and environmental change into sharper focus.