Resources

This guidance document aligned to the INEE Minimum Standards for Education was developed by UNISDR and is intended for education administrators at all levels as well as school safety advocates.

In the 16 years since the first Education for All conference at Jomtien, national governments and international donors have invested billions of dollars in programs and reforms designed to improve access to quality education, with a focus on basic education.

The primary purpose of these guidelines is to enable humanitarian actors and communities to plan, establish and coordinate a set of minimum multi-sectoral responses to protect and improve people's mental health and psychosocial well-being in the midst of an emergency.

This study analysed EE programs for displaced children and youths in slum areas around Bogotá, Colombia. The specific target area was the impact assessment and M&E carried out as this was identified as a little documented and underdeveloped area within EE.

The paper is intended to provide a framework for developing quality education programmes “translating” the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) into policies and practices that are inclusive of, and responsive to, diversity.

Presentation: Save the Children presents an overarching contextual analysis of Education systems in place in South Sudan and their strategic response to enable and support child protection initiatives.

Since the crisis of 1993, Burundi has been going through a period of instability and conflict and is still living under ongoing strife. The author analyzes decade-long survival strategies in the education sector during a period of conflict and the attempts made to salvage and rebuild the school system.

This publication is an outcome of the pilot experiences in Indonesia under the programme entitled “Scientific, Technical and Vocational Education for Out-of-School Girls: Schools and Learning Centres as Community Catalysts for Poverty Reduction and Empowerment of Girls (STVE)” implemented by UNESCO Jakarta.

This article problematises Bush & Saltarelli's call for a new and comprehensive peacebuilding education which empowers children through demonstrating that alternatives to conflict exist, that they have choices and the capacity to change their own and their society's situation.

The EDUCAIDS Overviews of Practical Resources provide guidance on the technical and operational aspects of this response. They are intended for technical staff, programme implementers and managers in ministries of education, technical staff in UN and other development cooperation agencies, and civil society partners.

Education is a basic human right for all, as articulated in the UDHR. Young people also have the right to appropriate and accurate information about HIV and AIDS. This booklet addresses the following issues for learners: Rights and access to education, protection, knowledge, attitudes, skills, care, and support. 

Guidelines that serve as references and assist in the care of children in emergencies (acute and chronic phases of an emergency). Essential for the training of first level health care workers. 

These briefs were developed to provide guidance on effective HIV interventions for young people in humanitarian emergencies. It is part of a series of seven global Guidance briefs that focus on HIV prevention, treatment, care and support interventions for young people that can be delivered through different settings for a range of target groups. 

This document aims to begin an international dialogue about how to expand investment in early childhood services and improve ECCD costing and financial planning.

Learning to Live Together: Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Education for Life Skills, Citizenship, Peace and Human Rights. The guide focuses on the theme of ‘learning to live together’, which is one of four competencies identified as important by the International Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century.

The paper shows how school led total sanitation has had very promising results to date and paves the way to speed up the process of intensive latrine coverage in school catchment areas.

This manual was written for staff who may be called upon to respond to the issues facing children in a humanitarian emergency. It provides practical tools and templates to plan responses; these also can be used for disaster preparedness. Some of the tools were developed or adapted from documents created by a number of child-focused NGOs and UN agencies.

Education has been on the minds of peacemakers since the end of the Cold War, contrary to expectations. An examination of how education is addressed in full and partial post-Cold War peace agreements shows that education is mentioned in a large number of the agreements.

In a double-shift system, which aims primarily to extend access and minimize unit costs, schools cater to two entirely separate groups of pupils during a school day.

A study demonstrating that formal education systems have a vital role to play in building peace in countries affected by armed conflict, based on fieldwork conducted in three countries.