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.
