INEE’s PSS-SEL Collaborative is pleased to share a webinar by the Regional Education Learning Initiative on the The Assessment of life skills and values in East Africa (ALiVE) initiative.
Alongside its review of progress towards SDG 4, including emerging evidence on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact, the 2021/2 Global Education Monitoring Report urges governments to see all institutions, students and teachers as part of a single system.
Organized by INEE’s TiCC Collaborative, as part of the TiCC Event Series, this event took place during the 13th Policy Dialogue Forum hosted by the International Taskforce on Teachers for Education 2030 and the Ministry of Education for the Republic of Rwanda.
2 December 2021
INEE Webinar
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)
This webinar highlighted gendered barriers to returning to the school “post” COVID-19 and shared ways in which programs have adapted to overcome those barriers.
This publication, the first in a series of studies, will be expanded from the 16 countries included to a wider set of countries for more in-depth quantitative analysis and to identify possible correlations with socioeconomic outcomes. It will seek to deepen knowledge, facilitate peer learning of good practices, and encourage reforms to increase the inclusion of sexual and gender minorities.
This paper reviews the available data sources on refugee education that could contribute to SDG4 monitoring for refugees, covering access, learning, protection and safety. It examines a range of sources to understand where data lies across the data value chain.
This paper serves as an alarm bell for the international community, digital and feminist movements, private technology companies and national Governments to act in unison to end the rising scourge of technology-facilitated gender-based violence.
This report presents findings from a digital course used on tablets and mobile phones for language learning in Lebanon, where 40% of school-age children and adolescents are Syrian refugees. The digital course was introduced in non-formal education classes for Syrian refugees to strengthen English or French language learning and help their transition to Lebanon’s trilingual education system.
This document follows the organisation of the INEE Minimum Standards: the five domains and their correlating standards. The sections for each standard includes the text of the original INEE Minimum Standards, and then contextualised guidance on how to interpret the global standard in the North- East Nigeria context.
The Early Childhood Care and Development Responsiveness Local Government Unit Assessment Tool (ERLAT) can be used by local governments to identify ECCD interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic, focused on enabling multi-sectoral structures and service delivery.
From August - December 2021 the Education Consortium of Iraq (ECI) conducted a study to investigate gaps in formal education service provision at the primary and secondary level to better understand the ongoing challenges and barriers affecting the education sector in Iraq.
This literature review seeks to better understand what worked and what did not work in education interventions during the first wave of COVID-19, in order to support planning on current and future school closures and/or disruptions to education systems.
This package has been designed to rapidly onboard new team members in the wake of a new emergency or crisis and aims to ensure that frontline workers are introduced to the minimum competencies to work in a safe, effective, accountable, and professional way with children, families, and communities.
This report seeks to assess what lessons can be drawn from experiences of remote learning during COVID-19 in K-12 education, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries. It focuses on the period from March 2020 to October 2021.
In this video, Dr. Paul O'Keeffe shares his experience of facilitating inclusive higher education in refugee camps. The knowledge he shares is based on his experience of and reflections on developing, implementing, coordinating, teaching and researching various refugee higher education and development.
In this webinar, teachers and Education in Emergencies actors working in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, Gaza and Colombia shared their reflections on the challenges and opportunities of supporting teacher professional development in crisis contexts.
Learning Kiosks are safe spaces within a community that aim to help the youth continue their disrupted education. They also serve as a depository for learning modules and IEC materials for students. In this space, the youth can learn how to read, write, and improve their reading comprehension skills.
The Real Assets through Improved Skills and Education for adolescent girls aims to increase realization of rights to education and skills for work and life among adolescent girls and young women and men in the rural province of Western Samar, Philippines. It targets adolescent girls, young women and men who are out of school or in school but at risk of dropping out of school. Because all project activities were originally planned to be face-to-face, the project had to make adaptations with the overall goal of ensuring safety of teachers/learners, supporting continuity of learning, and protecting girls.
This book attempts to contribute to the development of operational strategies for change in education that will help prepare students for the future, while addressing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and making education systems more resilient to future disruption.
The surge in armed violence across the West and Central Africa region, in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Mali, Niger and Nigeria, is having a devastating impact on children’s survival, education, protection and development.
To stem learning loss, the Ministry of Education (MoE) launched Darsak, a free distance learning digital platform which provides students from grades 1-12 with instructional lessons through video clips and is organized and scheduled according to the Jordanian curriculum.
We set out to investigate the existing and potential use cases of open-source, modular ‘building blocks’ to build digital platforms for education in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Building blocks fall into two main categories: teaching and learning (e.g., learning management systems) and education system management (e.g., data collection tools).
This article explores one continuing professional development (CPD) programme in South Africa to promote social cohesion (SC) in schools and classrooms. Drawing upon the experiences of ten teachers who attended this programme, the article analyses the ways in which this programme capacitated them to become active agents of transformation and change.
We hope this scan and analysis can serve as an ongoing resource to those in the humanitarian sector and beyond. We hope it will provoke their thinking about what possibilities exist to serve their learning and education challenges, and how trends in the sector are moving toward or away from the kinds of solutions they might need for their work.
As the third annual roundtable on refugee education, the event brought together global education stakeholders from diverse perspectives and geographic locations, including donors, practitioners, and beneficiaries of EdTech programmes in refugee settings.
The NEAT+ is a project-level screening tool, specifically designed for situations of displacement, which combines environmental data with site-specific and activity-based questions to automatically analyze and flag priority environmental risks.
The United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy provides the foundation for sustainable and transformative progress on disability inclusion through all pillars of the work of the United Nations.
Corporal punishment is the most common form of violence against children and most likely to be experienced in early life, causing injury and death to thousands of young children every year, as well as numerous other impacts to physical and mental health, relationships, and lifelong wellbeing.
This edition of Early Childhood Matters is dedicated to examining the many ways that climate change and early childhood intersect. In 34 articles, we hear from leading policymakers, researchers, educators, urban planners and activists from around the world, about how to both develop ecological resilience and improve well-being in the early years.
Remote Learning Readiness Index measures countries’ readiness to deliver remote learning in response to disruption of in-person learning. The index is composed of three domains: households, government’s policy response capacity, and emergency preparedness of the national education sector.
This White Paper, created for anyone interested in improving education outcomes, responds to discussions with policymakers, practitioners, and researchers. It draws on a thorough 12-month analysis of 45 organisations and 80 interviews with education sector leaders including ministers, academics, knowledge actors, NGOs, international organisations leaders and practitioners.
This Toolkit was developed to support UNICEF programmes and operations to become more accessible for all and facilitate better dialogue with partners, including OPDs on accessible construction.
This paper examines opportunities for, and limits to, protecting higher education from attack in Gaza. It presents a framework for categorising protection measures and empirically explores the effectiveness of measures to protect higher education from attack in Gaza since 2007.
The one-hour, interactive webinar provided an introduction and overview of the new training materials on gender and education. Presentations will include information on the development process and ways to use the training materials.
In this webinar, teachers and Education in Emergencies actors working in Kenya, Lebanon, El Salvador, and Sierra Leone will share their reflections on the challenges and opportunities of supporting teacher well-being in crisis contexts.
This toolkit aims to contribute to educators’ and education unionists’ skills and baseline knowledge in this regard. This toolkit is meant to be neither comprehensive nor prescriptive. Instead, it builds on existing research, analyses of needs and constraints, and best practices. The most it hopes to achieve is to serve as a stepping stone for developing context- and user-specific plans for CCE-focused advocacy.
The INEE Gender Training Manual orients education practitioners to the INEE Guidance Note on Gender: Gender Equality in and through Education (2019). The training manual outlines 4-8 hours of training activities and materials related to gender-responsive education in emergencies.
The aim of this toolkit is to increase understanding between the two sectors, to encourage dialogue for planning and programming, and ultimately to strengthen the quality of MHPSS and education responses in emergencies.
These modules aim to provide school teams, including school directors, teachers and other education professionals working in or with schools, with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and tools to support the (re)enrolment of all children in schools, particularly those most marginalized, and to prevent and respond to dropout effectively in the coming years.
This note is intended to be helpful for technical staff in Ministries of Education, donor agencies, local education groups, and non-profit organizations in thinking through appropriate interventions. This global evidence it presents should be used alongside context-specific analyses and system diagnostics.
This publication exposes these impacts and calls for effective strategies to ensure education continuity, promote gender equality and improve lives and futures through a review of published research, a global survey of actions taken by organizations in favour of gender equality in education, and in-depth data collection in five countries.
This technical note, intended for governments, practitioners, donors, academics, and UNICEF’s and UNGEI’s staff and partners implementing policies and programmes related to girls’ education and FGM, seeks to demonstrate and deepen linkages between the two, as well as present related strategies to advance girls’ education and eliminate FGM.
This report collects recent and historic examples of laws, court decisions, military orders, policies, and practice by governments, armed forces, non-state armed groups, and courts aimed at protecting schools and universities from use for military purposes.
This document provides guidance on the assessment, research, design, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of MHPSS programmes in emergency settings. Although designed specifically for emergency contexts (including protracted crises), the framework may also be applicable for the transition phases from emergency to development (including disaster risk reduction initiatives).
This call to action, endorsed by 51 civil society organizations urges the governments of the G20 to commission the relevant UN agencies to develop, fund, and implement a plan to protect and promote education for Afghan children, especially girls and people with disabilities, both in Afghanistan and those who have fled their country seeking protection.
Bangladesh has seen implementation of numerous Education in Emergencies interventions throughout the last two and half decades. In this webinar, Bangladeshi EiE practitioners presented some of these successful interventions
INEE partnered with the UKRI GCRF to convene a series of three regional workshops (Amman, Bogota, and Dhaka) to discuss regional challenges and opportunities of research, identify key evidence gaps, and map ongoing knowledge production. The below provides an introduction and key learnings from these workshops as well as a summary of each workshop.
The report is the result of many conversations with key stakeholders and influencers involved in Education in Displacement (EID). Collectively, we saw a need to assess the sector and its ecosystem, focusing on several key dimensions: quality education; evidence; collaboration and coordination; localisation; learning and adaptation.
Build Forward Better presents new analysis on which countries’ school systems are most vulnerable to existing risks and future crises. And it sets out what the global community needs to do to support ministries of education in those countries to prepare now. So that, even during emergencies, education systems can provide all children with good-quality, safe and inclusive opportunities to learn.
