Resources

The Regional Framework for Monitoring People on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean (RMF) is a UNESCO initiative developed in collaboration with 18 ministries of education in the region. It supports the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of national education policies to ensure the right to education for people on the move in the region, in response to the challenges posed by the significant increase in intra-regional displacement flows.

Since 2019, UNESCO is supporting the efforts of the Ministry of Education (MoE) and national institutions to improve the responsiveness and resilience of the education system to crises through strong governance and information management systems, by strengthening evidence-based planning, monitoring, and decision-making. This case study provides valuable evidence and learnings from the process of building a strong enabling institutional environment necessary to strengthen evidence-based crisis and risk-sensitive planning and monitoring. 

This paper examines and discusses refugees’ experiences with online higher education during COVID-19, a phenomenon which impacted millions of lives in displaced conditions.

This case study explores the critical components and lessons learned from the effective implementation of the Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Suite (CSSAS) in the Philippines since 2021 that has contributed to improving disaster response, comprehensive school safety, and ultimately strengthened the resilience of the education system. 

A case study of IRC’s Ahlan Simsim approach to supporting national governments departments through school readiness programs to strengthen their education systems to prepare children affected by crisis and conflict in the Middle East to successfully enter elementary school 

Drawing on a three-year case study of one faith-based school in Lebanon, this paper explores how one ordinary school in a refugee hostile transit country secured and protected the right to education for refugee children from Syria, within a significant broader context of multiple compounding crises.

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security hosted four high-level expert discussions with various stakeholders––from underground school administrators, nonprofit directors, media groups, and government officials––to identify practical pathways forward for inclusive and quality education in Afghanistan.

This paper provides an overview of secondary education in crisis contexts, highlighting the current issues, challenges, and thematic areas that help or hinder adolescents’ access to quality learning opportunities. It is an evidence-informed, analytical, and high-level summary of current debates and tensions in the field, and is intended to be read by government leaders, humanitarian sector policy makers, and practitioners to guide and support advocacy and decision-making processes

This paper proposes a seven-dimension framework to leverage potential entry points and address gaps within national education systems to strengthen the resilience and relevance of education to climate change and environmental degradation. It highlights opportunities for leveraging the role of education in wider climate change, disaster risk and environmental efforts.

The Joint Education and Child Protection Needs Assessment in Niger was implemented in the 36 schools selected as “centres de regroupement” by the Ministry of Education in the regions of Diffa, Maradi, Tahoua and Tillabéri, and the corresponding communities. 

The Education Research in Conflict and Protracted Crisis (ERICC) Research Programme Consortium is a global research and learning partnership that strives to transform education policy and practice in conflict and protracted crisis around the world, through building a global hub for rigorous, context-relevant and actionable evidence base. 

This paper proposes various actions, which have been adapted from the “Inter-Agency Toolkit: Preventing and responding to child labour in humanitarian action” and are structured around the INEE Minimum Standards.

In this paper, we reflect on the historical and ongoing legacies of (neo)colonialism and imperialism in education in emergencies (EiE) research and practice using collaborative auto-ethnography. Specifically, we explore how we’ve experienced hierarchies of power, positionality and privilege, and how we’ve benefited and/or been victims of this in the past.

Today we talk about Black Lives Matter and what it means for the field of comparative and international education. With me are Sharon Walker and Krystal Strong, who have recently co-edited with Derron Wallace, Arathi Sriprakash, Leon Tikly, and Crain Soudien, a special issue of Comparative Education Review entitled “Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education.”

Kolibri is specially designed to provide offline access to a curated and openly licensed educational content library. Available in dozens of languages, the Kolibri libraries are designed to support a well-rounded curriculum, including both formal educational materials--such as lessons and assessments--and exploratory materials, such as books, games, and simulations.

ALiVE and INEE hosted a webinar on the factors and community inputs that influence policy, practice and measurements of life skills and values in East Africa. 

This guidance introduces a conceptual framework for risk identification and reduction in contexts with attacks on education.  

This report presents an overview of the tool development and piloting process, as well as the results of the pilot analysis and final modifications to the tools. 

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance and support to the implementers of education interventions, partner governments, and funders of education reform as they consider research priorities and learning agendas to achieve SDG 4.

This report synthesizes existing literature on the impact, value and critical need for holistic approaches within education systems. It highlights the connectivity between holistic skills and academic achievement, overcoming adversity, and in improving societal and economic outcomes. 

Taking both this distressing context and children’s desire to return to the classroom into consideration, we have decided to analyse whether or not education in emergencies receives the attention it deserves in order to provide the response it needs. To do this, the funds contributed by the international community to this area in Ukraine have been analysed, particularly the Spanish contribution.

This brief analyzes why education is an urgent right in a context with growing humanitarian needs.

It is a strategic document for ECW Secretariat staff and First Emergency Response and Multi-year Resilience Programmes (MYRP) partners to design, implement, monitor and evaluate gender-equitable investments. It provides minimum standards for gender-responsive First Emergency Responses and gender-transformative MYRP investments and for gender integration across ECW's thematic priorities.

The purpose of the policy is to guide the Education Cannot Wait Secretariat to make Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women and Girls (GEEWG), in and through education in emergencies and protracted crisis, a core principle in all aspects of its work.

The language guide is divided into thematic sections, though many of the issues discussed intersect and some terms may be relevant to several categories. The guide is based on a set of Feminist Principles for Language Use and gives examples of how you can put these principles into practice in your writing and in day-to-day conversation.

This case study focuses on the school completion of girls in primary education in public schools at the ages of 6–14. The research focuses on the population at large for the school period of 2014–2018. Based on the data and using the pathways of the decision tree, the analysis found that the war led to decreased enrolment rates and completion rates

To better understand the use of EdTech interventions as part of the Covid-19 response, in late 2020, EdTech Hub commissioned ten small-scale research studies in five low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This paper presents a summary and review of these studies to explore EdTech use in low-resource contexts during the Covid-19 pandemic and considers implications of its use in these contexts going forward.

How can we better link data and its use to improve our programs’ outreach, outcomes, impact, and cost efficiency? This document seeks to address this question by providing a program implementation quality (PIQ) framework, examples, and practical tools for program managers and other staff to enhance the use of data for program improvement.

This case study explores how the PRP was able to make a shift to (1) identify and track data linked to the theory of change (TOC), (2) create a data review process for quality improvement decision making, and (3) build capacity among stakeholders to review data so that they could make course corrections and program implementation decisions.

The purpose of this webinar was to engage partners in the finalization of the draft Learning in Humanitarian Action policy brief. The webinar was an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning as we work collectively to address the challenges of enabling learning in humanitarian settings. 

This report examines children’s lives when these two identities intersect. It asks key questions about growth, development, safety and security when children with disabilities migrate or have been displaced. While the available evidence is limited, it is clear that across contexts – from humanitarian to high-income settings – this group of children faces high barriers to participating in society.

This resource provides an introduction to ECD in crisis contexts-what it is and why it's important-and presents two case studies of ECD programs in crisis contexts.

Since the full-scale Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, more than 3,500 educational institutions have reportedly been damaged or destroyed by bombing and shelling in Ukraine, according to the country’s Ministry of Education and Science (MoES).

Through reviewing and reflecting on the experience of the HEA and connecting it to system level perspectives, the Synthesis seeks to present lessons learnt, good practices and recommendations that can support the scaling of humanitarian education innovations.

Understanding what quality means varies between countries. Different education actors and organizations also have their own definitions. However, most tend to agree on three broad principles: the need for relevance, for equity of access and outcome, and for proper observance of individual rights.

This article uses exploratory multiple case study methodology, drawing from implementation and qualitative data from 3 interventions: a mobile phone-based intervention promoting nurturing care among Rohingya and crisis-affected host communities in Bangladesh; Reach Up amid acute violence and displacement in Northeast Syria; and Reach Up group sessions and home visits integrated with health services for an indigenous population in Venezuela.

Today we focus on a hugely important issue but one that is generally absent within the organizations and structures that make up the global education architecture. The issue is race. My guests today, Francine Menashy and Zeena Zakharia, have spent years speaking with staff members at various global education organizations.

This report explores how social network analysis (SNA) could shed light on educational shifts, such as the switch to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, and presents findings from pilot SNA studies of distance education for refugees in Jordan and Uganda. 

This case study presents the work of a project that was successful in gathering and using data for program improvement in a challenging context: the Every Adolescent Girl Empowered and Resilient (EAGER) project in Sierra Leone.

The Playful Learning Across the Years (PLAY) tools are designed to measure adult-child interactions that support children’s self-sustaining engagement in learning. There are multiple tools for use in different learning settings, including homes, pre-primary schools, and primary classrooms.

Experts from the social sciences, humanities, arts, and experimental sciences offer interdisciplinary perspectives to translate critical analysis into concrete action. The collection highlights activists, artists, and educators who have initiated projects in cooperation with and for the benefit of populations affected by migration and displacement.

To address the poor access to formal education, we designed an educational intervention consisting of a set of audio lessons that were delivered through mobile phones to primary school students using Interactive Voice Response. During the 15-week program period, parents could access the lessons for free by calling a designated phone number and listening to a lesson with their child at any time.

In this brief, we aim to 1) understand the socialization context Rohingya children living in the Cox’s Bazar Camps experience; and 2) explore the utility of rapid ethnography to understand evolving sociocultural contexts like refugee camps.

This YP Foundation handbook is a useful resource for young development sector practitioners, activists, students, researchers, or anyone else with an interest to build their understanding on the basics of gender diversity.

This brief highlights how child protection is critical to preventing lifelong consequences for young children exposed to violence and trauma during emergencies. It further emphasizes that child protection can provide positive inputs that reduce and prevent the potentially lifelong negative impacts of emergencies on young children.

This brief highlights the importance of supporting caregivers’ mental health in crisis settings to young children’s holistic development. It presents data on the severity of the global mental health crisis, which is being exacerbated by the lack of funding for psychosocial support for children, youth, and families.

This brief sheds light on the importance of supporting the youngest children in crisis to access high quality early learning programs. It shares evidence on the critical window from birth to 5 years where the children’s ability to learn and develop is the highest, but is also the most vulnerable period of their lives.

This document states IDDC’s stance on disability-inclusive safeguarding, acting as a point of reference for our members. It is also a position paper and advocacy tool for demanding disability-inclusive safeguarding.

This 5-hour course is for those who work with, teach, educate and care for children of preschool age in and out of educational institutions. It is designed to support educators in connecting with children when their work context may include stress and trauma.

The toolkit is developed for organizations in the humanitarian sector seeking to improve the education access and quality for crisis-affected communities via technology-enhanced solutions. This toolkit is designed to help a team make decisions about how to invest in education technology (EdTech) innovation.