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1 November 2020 Emergency Update/Report United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Mental health and psychosocial support for children in humanitarian settings: An updated review of evidence and practice

This review provides practitioners with a review and update on effective practices and evidence in the field of MHPSS. It was first drafted in 2015, presenting evidence and practice specific to children in order to support the implementation of MHPSS activities in humanitarian settings. This updated 2020 Review includes recent evidence updates (2015-2020), and addressing an identified gap in the 2015 Review, includes additional evidence on child and community participation.

1 November 2020 Report
Oxford Policy Management

Information, coordination and financing: Does the Education Response Plan for Refugees and Host Communities make a difference?

This research report looks at the effectiveness of Uganda’s Education Response Plan (ERP) in setting up effective coordination systems, channeling adequate financing, and using relevant information, to improve the effectiveness of education service delivery for refugees and host communities. It was carried out mid-way through the ERP's duration.

1 November 2020 Report
HundrED

Creativity Spotlight: Five Innovation Responses to COVID-19

This supplementary mini-report presents case studies from surveys and interviews on how five of the selected innovators have responded to COVID-19 as a result of widespread school closures. The purpose is to illuminate how a variety of innovations have coped with the challenges they faced (and continue to face), and shed light on the changes/learnings since. 

1 November 2020 Report US Agency for International Development (USAID)

Best Practices on Effective SEL/Soft Skills Interventions in Distance Learning

The purpose of this review is to provide evidence on effective, equitable, and inclusive SEL practices that can be delivered via distance learning modalities in USAID-recipient countries. The scope of this review includes formal and non-formal basic, secondary and higher education programs, as well as workforce development programs. Researchers analyzed documents and interviewed key informants from 22 programs offering SEL using distance learning modalities.

1 November 2020 White Paper
Save Our Future

Averting an Education Catastrophe for the World's Children

Education systems were already in crisis even before the pandemic and are now facing the likelihood of drastic budget cuts. If governments and development partners do not act immediately, this crisis could turn into a catastrophe from which millions of children may never recover. 

1 November 2020 Report International Rescue Committee (IRC)

Colombia’s Education Crisis: Results from a Learning Assessment of Colombian and Venezuelan Children

IRC conducted a learning assessment in the city of Cúcuta to better understand these challenges and shine a light on children’s needs. This brief will discuss several of the key findings from this assessment to illustrate the extent to which schooling, or lack thereof, is impacting children’s outcomes in Colombia.

1 November 2020 Training Material
Consortium Partners of Building Resilience: Education Opportunities in Fragile and Crisis Affected Environments (BRICE)

Training Package for Primary School Teachers in Crisis Contexts

This ½-day training (3.5 hours) is designed to build basic competencies around psychosocial support (PSS) and well-being for teachers working in crisis and conflict-affected contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 November 2020 Report United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

COVID-19 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Schools

This document presents the results of a survey  assessing the WASH readiness of schools in UNHCR- supported refugee camps and refugee settlements. UNHCR and partners are using the results to improve water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) COVID-19 mitigation measures in schools and design targeted improvements to WASH facilities to allow for safe operation of schools.

1 November 2020 Report United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Education on Hold: A generation of children in Latin and the Caribbean are missing out on school because of COVID-19

More than seven months into the pandemic, COVID-19 is putting education on hold for more than 137 million children in Latin America and the Caribbean. This is according to a new UNICEF report about the devastating impacts of COVID-19 on education. 

30 October 2020 Toolkit World Bank

Education Radio Knowledge Pack

A series of short, pragmatic guides on individual topics within EdTech to support the target audience to make informed yet quick decisions about EdTech interventions in their work with education ministries. The purpose is to support the target audience as they work with education ministries to start or enhance education radio programming as a remote learning tool, especially during COVID-19 and other emergencies.

27 October 2020 Framework Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

Education in Emergencies Competency Framework

The EiE Competency Framework builds on the INEE Minimum Standards to articulate a set of required, valued and recognized competencies for the humanitarian and education in the emergencies sectors. The framework provides a common lexicon for core humanitarian and technical competencies and defines expected knowledge, skills and attributes for each.

26 October 2020 Manual/Handbook/Guide Right To Play

Teacher Wellbeing Focus Group Discussion Guide

The focus group discussion guide is a tool designed for Right to Play staff to facilitate with teachers who have returned to school after COVD-19 enforced closures (across the globe) as well as for teacher in Burundi and Tanzania who have continued teaching throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic.

15 October 2020 Report UNESCO Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report

2020 GEM Gender Report: A new generation: 25 years of efforts for gender equality in education

Building on the 2020 Global Education Monitoring Report, this report investigates how inclusion in education can advance gender equality in and through education, which is critical to make progress towards gender equality in society.

15 October 2020 Report United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO), World Bank

What have we learnt? Overview of findings from a survey of ministries of education on national responses to COVID-19

As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank have conducted a Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures. In this joint report, we analyse the results of the first two rounds of data collection administered by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

15 October 2020 Advocacy Brief United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO), World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO)

The importance of investing in the wellbeing of children to avert the learning crisis

Through the joint position paper, UNESCO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO, urge governments and the international community to uphold these commitments and to consider school health and nutrition services as a critical part of national response and recovery plans and global recovery agendas.