Resources

This guide is designed to help you understand the humanitarian cluster approach. It gives an overview of what it is and why your organization should get involved.

This policy paper provides guidance on how to increase and improve the measurement of holistic learning outcomes for crisis-affected learners. It was developed by the Quality and Equitable Learning Outcomes (QELO) workstream of the Education Policy Working Group (EPWG) and is a resource for donors, national governments, and humanitarian and development agencies.

This webinar shared the results of a study to help further our understanding of what the existing IDP educational data landscape looks like. More detailed findings are presented in the forthcoming resource, "Mapping the Ecosystem of Education Data for Internally Displaced Persons in the Middle East and Beyond: Issues, Challenges, and Recommendations".

This paper, developed through consultations with Building Local Thinking Global members, seeks to explore language and power hierarchies within humanitarian aid, and the impact of language on relationships between different groups, with the goal of identifying new language that is inclusive and empowering, and promotes equality.

A report from Save the Children looking at refugee education one year on from the Global Refugee Forum and the impact of COVID-19.

ReAL is a toolkit for assessing children’s learning outcomes remotely, focusing on foundational literacy and numeracy, and Social and Emotional Learning, drawing from existing SC tools. This tool is for remote use where enumerators can’t assess children in person.

This study aims to determine the barriers, solutions, and projections of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesian Primary Education students.

The Adolescent Girls' Consultation Toolkit provides practical tools and tips for consulting with diverse adolescent girls, their families and their communities, for any type of programming.

Co-hosts Heba Aly and Jeremy Konyndyk sit down with Tammam Aloudat, a Syrian doctor who is senior strategic adviser to the Access Campaign of Médecins Sans Frontières and one of the few people of colour in a senior management position within an organisation going through a very public struggle with racism, to discuss dismantling colonialism in the aid sector.

This paper provides some of the first experimental evidence on strategies to minimize learning loss when schools close. We run a randomized trial of low technology interventions – SMS messages and phone calls – with parents to support their child.

IDMC’s Global Report on Internal Displacement is the official repository of data and analysis on internal displacement. This year's GRID discusses the relationship between climate change, disasters and displacement, and presents good practices from across the globe in advancing policy, displacement risk reduction and effective response. 

The IASC Gender with Age Marker (GAM) helps users to design and implement inclusive programs that respond to gender, age, and disability-related differences. 

The purpose of this review is to support education practitioners, donors, implementers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil society organizations, and other stakeholders in applying best practices to monitor and evaluate distance learning initiatives designed for diverse learners and implemented both within and outside of learning institutions.

A guidance note on working with LGBTQIA+ individuals in forced displacement contexts. Includes terminology, guiding principles, and recommendations for promoting safe and inclusive spaces and addressing operational protection risks. 

Develop essential coordination and information management competencies for education cluster staff and key cluster’s stakeholder.

The MSCM handbook describes the minimum actions needed to support meaningful engagement within a site as well as planning and coordination between sectors and agencies. The handbook aims to clarify the role of any site management agency working on a daily basis in humanitarian settings and to set out minimum levels of quality for that work.

This free practical training is designed for parents and people working in Early Childhood Development (ECD) who are responsible for the creation and delivery of sustainable and culturally relevant parenting programmes.

A global study exposing the gendered impact of COVID-10 school closures on learning, health and well-being

This collection of courses is primarily designed to help education in emergencies (EiE) and education practitioners to improve their overall understanding of EiE or their knowledge of specific EiE topics and areas, in line with the modules and individual course units offered. It may also serve as a useful resource for those working in other areas but wanting to improve their understanding of EiE by diving into this intermediate-level content.

This document will provide guidance on the inclusion of essential indicators in rapid needs assessments that will later allow analyzing the magnitude of economic barriers faced by children in their access to education, as well as the appropriateness and to some extent the feasibility of CVA as a programme delivery modality.

As an early emergency response, the Innovation Development Directorate at EAA will continue to create materials to continue the learning journey. The resources are designed for NGOs, schools, educators, parents and students in the nearly half of global households that are not connected and for those that have moved to online-schools to supplement their learning.

This page includes material and activity ideas for young children ages 0-8 that can help them recognize their big emotions, name them, and learn strategies to cope with them in a healthy manner. The resources are sorted by social-emotional topic area. 

Learn how to apply the standards in the Sphere Handbook through realistic examples from complex and protracted crises.

The Alliance’s core training on the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS).

Parenting on the Move (PoM) has been developed with the objective to support parents in situations of migration/refugeehood to provide the conditions for well-being, resilience, and education of children of kindergarten and school age. PoM provides psychosocial support, education, and entertainment; it encourages family cohesion and intercultural exchange.

This thematic review explores how countries in the Asia-Pacific region have been able to cope with educational disruptions and what steps were undertaken to ensure continuity in monitoring student learning through formative assessments. The world’s unpreparedness to the pandemic sees the pressing need to relook and examine the past experiences on how countries have effectively responded to ensure uninterrupted educational participation, and particularly conducting formative and school-based assessments to monitor the learning progress of the crisis affected school going children.

This Training Package aims to address the immediate emerging needs for health and safety measures, learning loss, and mental health and well-being in schools and classrooms. The information presented here is developed for educators, teachers and education staff across the Middle East and North Africa region in mind, but can be easily adapted to any context.

Based on a child-centered, cross-sectoral framework, this document sets forth evidence-informed progressive standards to support gender-responsive actions that address the unique needs of girls and boys at risk of not engaging in education, training or employment.

This document aims to provide practical suggestions – for UNHCR operations and partners - on how the specific needs of refugee children, youth and families can be addressed as schools begin to re-open. It complements and draws on detailed guidance issued by the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, Global Education Cluster, other UN agencies and NGOs and includes links to key resources.

This report is a first attempt to estimate current global funding levels towards early childhood development in crisis settings. To better understand the extent to which children and their caregivers in crisis-affected contexts are supported to survive and thrive, donors, decision-makers and advocates should push for increased transparency on, and traceability of, funding for ECDiE.

Research results from Rangwe Sub-county have shown that most learners have not benefited much from the online classes due to the network and other related challenges reported in this paper. The paper recommends that government to properly educate parents, teachers and learners on modalities of distance and remote learning programmes.

Practically all countries in the region collect data on ethnicity to guide policy decisions, but many still do not carry out household surveys to get granular data on disadvantage. The region has the highest share of teachers already trained on inclusion, but many are still trying to address inequality and cope with migratory impact without the pedagogies required.

Insights from EdTech solutions, such as user metrics on learning outcomes, can help EdTech become an adaptive technology at home and help teachers achieve better results in the classroom. 

During this webinar, panelists from INEE, IRC, and NYU Global TIES for Children presented three new psychometric measurement tools in the INEE Measurement Library: the Teacher Classroom Observation, the Self-Regulation Assessment-Assessor Report, and the Child Friendly School Questionnaire.

In line with its mandate, the 2020 GEM Report assesses progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education and its ten targets, as well as other related education targets in the SDG agenda. The report also addresses inclusion in education, drawing attention to all those excluded from education, because of background or ability.

The Self-Regulation Assessment-Assessor Report (SRA-AR) is a measurement tool used to capture assessors’ perceptions of children’s skills at regulating their behavior during an assessment. The developers tested this measurement tool in Lebanon.

The Child-Friendly School Questionnaire for Syrian Children in Lebanon (CFSQ-SL) is a self-report survey that was used to capture primary-school aged Syrian refugee students’ perceptions of the climate of Lebanese public schools. CFSQ-SL was adapted and shortened from the original CFSQ developed by UNICEF.

The Practical Measurement course is a self-paced, online video course that covers critical issues that practitioners in low-resource and fragile contexts need to consider when measuring the learning and development outcomes of children and adolescents.

This report explores the solutions adopted by the Girls Education Challenge Transitions (GEC-T) team in Kenya in response to Covid-19 related school closures, particularly focusing on the role of community health volunteers (CHVs) in supporting continuity of learning for vulnerable girls

Key considerations and question bank (example questions) for monitoring the reach and effectiveness of distance and blended learning modalities, through surveys of parents, students and teachers.

This report focuses on the activities in Component 1 to distil lessons learned on jointly planning education across host and refugee contexts

This thematic brief sheds light on the need to better ensure children in humanitarian settings receive nurturing care. The brief summarizes what programme planners and implementers can do to minimize the impact that emergencies have on the lives of young children and their families.

A guide for teachers to use during times of school closures to support parents in guiding their children’s learning and wellbeing

This policy paper seeks to lay out key arguments for close collaboration across Social Protection and Child Protection sectors to address the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on children and families towards reduction of adverse Child Protection outcomes.

The unique findings presented in this report provide new insights on children and young people’s access to connectivity worldwide, as well as the factors that drive inequities among and within countries. It also aims to serve as a resource for stakeholders who seek to reimagine education and enhance internet access in their communities.

As a way to capture the dialogue throughout INEE's 20th Anniversary event, Max Frieder of Artolution produced a live, creative visualization depicting the themes discussed by participants. We encourage you to engage with this wonderful art piece via a tour and description of the concepts and a time-lapse video of its production. 

This paper presents the synthesised outcome of five INEE refugee round table events, held 20-24 July 2020, highlighting challenges and recommendations, and giving voice to the young refugees themselves.

Humanity & Inclusion has published a report on  on the difficulties children with disabilities face in accessing education in the world’s poorest countries.

The Technical Note on Measurement intends to supplement version one of the INEE Technical Note on Education During COVID-19, and specifically focuses on distance education programs in light of the pandemic. This targeted technical guidance has been drafted in response to monitoring, evaluation, and learning needs identified by INEE members.

The aim of the study is to analyse the opportunities and challenges of emergency remote teaching based on experiences of the COVID-19 emergency.