This provides a snapshot of the current interest and activities of aid agencies and the mobile industry. It outlines ongoing activities (pilots, projects, and initiatives) across different regions, divided into five key themes: connectivity, digital tools and platforms, family reconnection, education, and livelihoods and mobile money.
UNICEF ECD Programme Guidance provides a framework for articulating a vision, corresponding goals and indicators linked to the commitments made for ECD within the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Strategic Plan (SP) (2018-2021)
In this compendium, eight experts in adolescent neuroscience and development summarize scientific and programmatic evidence from their work, offering an insight into how to maximize the potential of adolescents during this period of opportunity, but also vulnerability.
This guide, organized around a set of questions and answers to “unpack” SDG4, provides overall guidance for a deeper understanding of SDG4 within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in order to support its effective implementation.
The report summarises the research conducted between July - December 2016 on the efficiency and efficacy of free digital learning (FDL) for the integration, inclusion and further learning of migrants and refugees in Europe and in neighbouring regions in conflict
This article explains how digital media can be used in critical ways to promote engagement with content about the refugee crisis among young people. Furthermore, the role of digital media in the lives of refugee children is explored.
This document explains the importance of vaccinations, building and restoring confidence in vaccines and vaccinations. An essential read for stakeholders working on developing communication strategies for immunization and vaccination programmes in crises settings.
Our first issue focuses on peace, conflict and education in Somali society, showcasing some of the on-going research that looks at both the Horn of Africa and the Somali diaspora internationally.
Given the number of people affected by MHM in some way or another, it is striking that the topic has widely been neglected until recently. This report focuses on breaking the taboo around MHM, addressing infrastructural barriers and how to monitor MHM.
This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region.
This toolkit has been produced to support people and agencies working in crisis situations so they are better able to understand and support children’s everyday play. The toolkit aims to support everyday, community-based play opportunities for children in crisis situations.
In this article, I probe a question at the core of comparative education—how to realize the right to education for all and ensure opportunities to use that education for future participation in society.
This article considers the impact of CBE in the voices of Afghanistan’s educational and community stakeholders, gained through interviews and observations with parents, teachers, students, educational officers, and school shuras (councils) across eight communities in two provinces.
Using stratified survey data and complementary qualitative interview data, this study explores why parents in Uruzgan, Afghanistan, choose to send their boys and girls to school, what prevents them from doing so, and what kinds of normative tensions emerge during this process.
This research article examines how LGBTQIA students on college campuses in Delhi, India, handle discrimination in the aftermath of the Supreme Court of India’s ruling on December 11, 2013, that recriminalized homosexuality in India. In this paper, we identify which strategies are most likely to lead to positive, long-lasting change.
This field note explores a little-known footnote in the history of the U.S. military occupation in Iraq. In mid-2007 the author documented the beginnings of a school designed and operated by the U.S. military in Iraq. Every aspect of this school was conditioned by its singular context: to educate Iraqi juveniles captured in war.
This paper presents lessons learned from the implementation of the Better Learning Program, a school-based response in Gaza that combined psychosocial and trauma-focused approaches, and discusses how international guidelines were incorporated.
Anthropologist Marc Sommers has spent decades thinking and writing about youth in Africa, frequently while working as a consultant for government and NGO clients. In The Outcast Majority, Marc Sommers has written a career-summarizing book. The book details the vast gap between outcast youth in war-affected Africa and the international development enterprise.
In Arab Dawn, Bessma Momani offers a nuanced picture of the everyday lives of young people throughout the Arab Middle East. She argues that there are important fundamental differences between today’s Arab youth and those of prior generations, and that young people will be driving change in the region.
