Event Continuing learning and schooling for refugees: Ensuring refugee students are able to learn at home and return to school Led by UNHCR and UNESCO, convened and chaired Special Envoy Angelina Jolie and co-hosted by Canada and the United Kingdom, this high-level virtual roundtable will bring together voices of affected communities and partners to hear about the needs and responses on the ground. The roundtable is built on a recognition of the role of host governments in leading responses and the need for international solidarity in supporting planning for return to school and catching up on missed education.
Event MHPSS for children and families in humanitarian settings: Review of Evidence & Guidance and tools This webinar is hosted by the IASC Community Based Approaches working group, under the umbrella of the IASC MHPSS Reference group. It will be facilitated by a team from Proteknôn, who are engaged in a piece of work to review and update the UNICEF 2015 evidence and practice review of MHPSS for children in humanitarian settings, and to develop a toolkit:Facilitating Community based and participatory MHPSS programmes- engaging children, adolescents, caregivers and communities. This piece of work is funded by IOM through OFDA.
Resource Practical lessons for phone-based assessments of learning In this article, we draw on our pilot testing of phone-based assessments in Botswana, along with the existing literature on oral testing of reading and mathematics, to propose a series of preliminary practical lessons to guide researchers and service providers as they try phone-based learning assessments.
News Dismay as world leaders fail to keep promise on Syrian refugee education A coalition of global children’s charities - led by Theirworld - has accused world leaders of displaying a “gross failure of political leadership” after they failed to prioritise education at a major conference on the future of Syria.
Event Education post-COVID 19 : High-Level Political Forum 2020 side event Organized by UNESCO, SDG-Education 2030 Steering Committee, with support from Group of Friends for Education and Lifelong Learning the virtual side event of the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) 2020 will bring together multilateral institutions, national governments, civil society actors, teachers, foundations, private sector and youth advocates around 3 objectives.
Event Save our Education: High-Level Political Forum 2020 side event You are invited to the Save Our Education event, co-hosted by Sierra Leone, on sidelines of the High-Level Political Forum 2020. The event will discuss the impact of COVID-19 on children’s education and wellbeing, and the urgency of coordinated global action, as highlighted in Save the Children's new global Save our Education report.
Resource Strengthening the evidence base for education in emergencies: Emerging outputs from the E-Cubed Research Fund Now in its fourth year, the E-Cubed Research Fund has funded 12 studies and is beginning to see the outputs of this research. This panel will provide an opportunity for a selection of E-Cubed grantees to share their emerging research findings.
Event Strengthening the evidence base for education in emergencies: Emerging outputs from the E-Cubed Research Fund We are pleased to invite you to join us for VCIES Webinar on Strengthening the evidence base for education in emergencies.
Resource Adapting Education Data Systems and Measurements to Emergency and Protracted Crisis Settings In this panel, global actors from FHI 360, NYU, UNESCO, the Global Education Cluster, and the Education Cannot Wait Fund examine how education data systems and measurements – both national and humanitarian – can be adapted to improve the quality, interoperability, availability, and accessibility of education data.
Resource Parent Manual: Activities for children up to age 3 years This manual provides content that can be shared with parents to support playful interactions for children 0-36 months. The manual was developed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the suspension of many programs that involved home visiting or parent groups
