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22 May 2023 Manual/Handbook/Guide
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
Global Nutrition Cluster, GNC Technical Alliance

Quick Guide for Maximizing Early Childhood Development within Nutrition in Emergencies Programmes

This quick guide offers tips, practical tools and rationale for promoting early childhood development in Nutrition in Emergencies response, noting that ECD is already a part of NiE programmes but can be strengthened to more effectively support children's nutrition and development.

16 May 2023 Journal Article
Population Research and Policy Review

Household Shocks and Adolescent Well‑Being in Peru

This paper explores the linkages between exposure to household shocks across early life and children’s educational and well-being outcomes in Peru. We use longitudinal survey data for a sample of 1713 children from five rounds of the Young Lives Survey to investigate how exposure to shocks across early life is linked to test scores and well-being in adolescence and to determine the extent to which critical periods of shock exposure exist.

5 May 2023 Assessment Child Protection Area of Responsibility (CP AoR), Global Education Cluster

Joint Education and Child Protection Needs Assessment

The objective of this joint assessment is to improve the common understanding of the impact of the crisis on education and child protection needs to enable 1) the prioritization of geographic areas of intervention, and 2) the formulation of recommendations to inform operational strategies and decisions. 

1 May 2023 Report International Rescue Committee (IRC), NYU Global TIES for Children, Sesame Workshop

Lessons and Impacts of a Phone-Based Parenting Program for Syrian and Jordanian Families with Young Children

This study, led by Global TIES for Children at New York University, is the first to evaluate a phone-delivered version of a parenting program in the Middle East and the first randomized-controlled evaluation of an audio-only parenting program for a community sample (that is, a sample without diagnosed health problems or disabilities).

1 May 2023 Report International Rescue Committee (IRC), LEGO Foundation, NYU Global TIES for Children, Sesame Workshop

Lessons and Impacts of a Remote Early Childhood Education Program in Hard-to-Access Settings in Lebanon: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study is the first evaluation of a remote early childhood education (ECE) program for families affected by conflict and crisis and the second of the effect of short-term (shorter than 3 months) ECE programming. It evaluates the impact of an 11-week remote early learning program (RELP) delivered alone and in combination with Ahlan Simsim Families (ASF), a parenting support program.

1 May 2023 Report International Rescue Committee (IRC), NYU Global TIES for Children, Sesame Workshop

Lessons and Impacts of Ahlan Simsim TV Program in Pre-Primary Classrooms in Jordan on Children’s Emotional Development: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study evaluates the effects of Ahlan Simsim, a television show co-produced by Sesame Workshop and Jordan Pioneers that has been viewed by more than 23 million children across the MENA region, including 57% of displaced Syrians across Jordan, Lebanon, and Iraq.

1 May 2023 Assessment United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Early Childhood Development Index 2030

The ECDI2030 captures the achievement of key developmental milestones by children between the ages of 24 and 59 months. Mothers or primary caregivers are asked 20 questions about the way their children behave in certain everyday situations, and the skills and knowledge they have acquired.

1 May 2023 Journal Article
National Bureau of Economic Research

Building Resilient Education Systems: Evidence from Large-Scale Randomized Trials in Five Countries

We present results from large-scale randomized trials evaluating the provision of education in emergency settings across five countries: India, Kenya, Nepal, Philippines, and Uganda. We test multiple scalable models of remote instruction for primary school children during COVID-19, which disrupted education for over 1 billion schoolchildren worldwide. Despite heterogeneous contexts, results show that the effectiveness of phone call tutorials can scale across contexts.

27 April 2023 Manual/Handbook/Guide Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action

Qualitative Assessment Approaches for the Protection of Children with Disabilities Within Humanitarian Contexts

This guidance note explores how to use qualitative methods to create more robust assessment processes to ensure more effective programming and services for children with disabilities. This note provides promising practices for engaging with children with disabilities and includes sample tools that can be tailored to fit the needs of a particular assessment process.

25 April 2023 Policy Brief
United Nations Girls Education Initiative (UNGEI)
Gender at the Centre Initiative (GCI)

How is Gender Equality Included in Education Sector Planning? An Analysis of Power, Voice, and Social Norm Change in Eight Sub-Saharan Countries

The study looks at the political economy of education sector planning, zooming in on issues of power and voice, and seeks to answer the following questions: Are education sector planning processes including gender transformative ambitions and intentions? Who within the MoE has the power to push this gender agenda? How are civil society and other gender experts engaged within education planning?

20 April 2023 Case Study
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)
UNESCO Regional Office for Education in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Regional Monitoring Framework for Students on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean

The Regional Framework for Monitoring People on the Move in Latin America and the Caribbean (RMF) is a UNESCO initiative developed in collaboration with 18 ministries of education in the region. It supports the formulation, implementation, and monitoring of national education policies to ensure the right to education for people on the move in the region, in response to the challenges posed by the significant increase in intra-regional displacement flows.

19 April 2023 Case Study
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)
The Ministry of Education of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Building a Resilient and Responsive Education System in Jordan: Strengthening Evidence-Based Crisis-Sensitive Planning and Governance

Since 2019, UNESCO is supporting the efforts of the Ministry of Education (MoE) and national institutions to improve the responsiveness and resilience of the education system to crises through strong governance and information management systems, by strengthening evidence-based planning, monitoring, and decision-making. This case study provides valuable evidence and learnings from the process of building a strong enabling institutional environment necessary to strengthen evidence-based crisis and risk-sensitive planning and monitoring. 

11 April 2023 Case Study Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES), Save the Children, UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UNESCO-UIS)

School Safety First: how adapted education information systems are playing a key role towards ensuring school safety in the Philippines

This case study explores the critical components and lessons learned from the effective implementation of the Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Suite (CSSAS) in the Philippines since 2021 that has contributed to improving disaster response, comprehensive school safety, and ultimately strengthened the resilience of the education system. 

11 April 2023 Case Study Global Coalition to Protection Education from Attack (GCPEA), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)

Towards standardizing data tools and practices to better protect education from attack

The Toolkit for Collecting and Analyzing Data on Attacks on Education builds on the efforts of GCPEA to better measure the scale and impact of attacks on education and aims to fill gaps in monitoring and reporting. It includes a set of technical tools for all education sector stakeholders to standardize data collection, analysis, and reporting. 

11 April 2023 Case Study International Rescue Committee (IRC), Sesame Workshop, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organziation (UNESCO)

Strengthening Early Childhood Education and Socio-emotional Learning Systems through a Data-Driven Scaling-Up Approach in Iraq and Jordan

A case study of IRC’s Ahlan Simsim approach to supporting national governments departments through school readiness programs to strengthen their education systems to prepare children affected by crisis and conflict in the Middle East to successfully enter elementary school 

10 April 2023 Journal Article
International Journal of Human Rights Education

Ordinary Solidarities: Re-Reading Refugee Education Response Through an Anticolonial Discursive Framework

Drawing on a three-year case study of one faith-based school in Lebanon, this paper explores how one ordinary school in a refugee hostile transit country secured and protected the right to education for refugee children from Syria, within a significant broader context of multiple compounding crises.