Resource TEAM Girl Malawi Learning Paper: Reaching the most marganalised during COVID-19 Transformational Empowerment for Marginalised Adolescent Girls in Malawi (TEAM Girl Malawi) aims to significantly improve learning and life chances for the most marginalised young people.
Resource 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.
Resource 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.
Resource EiE Capacity Gap Analysis: West and Central Africa Region This report aims to generate learning on capacity gaps among EiE practitioners operating in the West and Central Africa (WCA) region. In doing so, it aims to guide and enrich the design and content of future EiE capacity strengthening initiatives in the region, while advocating for its importance.
Resource Rapport d'analyse des lacunes en matiere de capacites d'ESU en ACOfd Ce rapport a pour but de generer des enseignements sur les capacites. manquantes parmi les praticiens de l'ESU qui interviennent dons cette region. Ce faisant, il vise à guider et à enrichir la conception et le contenu des futures initiatives de renforcement des capacites d'ESU dons la region, tout en mettant en exergue l'importance de ce domaine.
Resource 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.
Resource 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.
Resource 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.
Resource 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.
Resource 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.
