The most important advice is for all schools to encourage their students to maintain good hand and respiratory hygiene to remain safe. School proprietors, headmasters, and head mistresses must ensure that students have access to clean water and soap at all times while on the school premises.
This study aims to understand the ways schools and their teaching staff try to provide an adequate and safe environment for students, and how the involvement of the education community contributes to the performance of the school and the inclusion of students who live in insecure settings.
The people of the Nuba Mountains in Sudan have been under conflict for decades. This conflict has left the people of Nuba lacking many resources, including education support. Due to the nature of the conflict, access to the region is challenging. Still, the education organization, To Move Mountains, was able to conduct qualitative research with two communities within the conflict zone.
This paper, based on lessons learned and analysis of prior public health crises in the developing world and humanitarian settings, aims to help ensure COVID-19 mitigation and response efforts take gender into account in appropriate and meaningful ways.
The following Humanitarian Response Plan for the COVID-19 pandemic seeks to set out activities that will be undertaken by humanitarian actors in Ukraine over the course of 2020 to respond to the public health impact of the epidemic – as well as the indirect, socio-economic impact on people’s well-being, which will span across many areas.
Sphere collates and disseminates emerging practice and evidence in the Coronavirus response and released a four-page document guiding you through the relevant parts of the Sphere Handbook.
27 February 2020
INEE Webinar
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), International Rescue Committee (IRC), New York University (NYU)
A webinar on the MENAT Measurement Library’s newly-added measures! The measures featured during this webinar provided information on social and emotional learning (SEL), mental health and program implementation quality, and are relevant to educational and psychosocial programs in fragile contexts.
The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children, 10-item version (CES-DC-10Sy) is a 10-item questionnaire designed to screen for symptoms of depression.
The Screen for Child Anxiety-Related Disorders - Child, 18-item version (SCARED-18Sy) is a child self-report instrument used to screen for childhood anxiety disorders, including general anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder and social phobia.
The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule for Children (WHODAS-Child-Arabic) is a disability assessment instrument based on the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth.
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief screen for child psychiatric disorders designed for children aged 4-17, with subscales measuring emotional problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity, peer problems, and prosocial behaviour.
The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule for Children - Parent-report (WHODAS-Child-Arabic: Parent-report) is a disability assessment instrument based on the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth.
23 February 2020
Manual/Handbook/Guide
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Health Organization (WHO)
The current COVID-19 outbreak has provoked social stigma and discriminatory behaviours against people of certain ethnic backgrounds as well as anyone perceived to have been in contact with the virus.
To address the growing need for AEPs, in 2021 the AEWG will engage more directly with national policy makers and key donors who are shaping, or have the potential to shape, the structural conditions within which AEPs operate.
This Guide is Part 1 of this Toolkit, and focuses on providing key information on the theory of EiE – what it is, why we do it and when we do it – as well as topline information on PIN’s approach to EiE and practical guidance on how to improve the quality of education programming through key cross-cutting themes.
This Guide is Part 2 of the Toolkit; it walks you through the step-by-step process of setting up an EiE response, from understanding the education needs to deciding the types of activities to include and the best practices for delivering these activities in a quality way.
10 February 2020
Report
Global Education Cluster, Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
As part of the Global Partners’ Project, INEE conducted a review of existing data sources, tools and products available for use in EiE planning, coordination and response. Through a network-wide survey, INEE looked at the availability and accessibility of tools and guidance for EiE technical programming and planning, as well as tools and data sources for EiE coordination.
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At least 100 million people were forced to flee their homes during the last 10 years, seeking refuge either within or outside the borders of their country. Forced displacement and statelessness remained high on the international agenda in recent years and continued to generate dramatic headlines in every part of the world.