Resource International humanitarian law and the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts The aim of all these reports is to provide an overview of some of the challenges posed by contemporary armed conflicts for International Humanitarian Law; generate broader reflection on those challenges; and outline current or prospective ICRC action, positions, and areas of interest.
Event Launch of Arab States 2019 GEM Report UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM) and the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation will co-host the launch of the Migration, displacement and education in the Arab States Report at the WISE Summit in Doha.
News Nine children walking to school in Afghanistan are killed by landmine Nine children were killed when a landmine exploded as they walked to school in Afghanistan. It's the latest shocking incident in a country where more than 1,000 schools were shut down last year by the ongoing conflict.
Resource Information and Communications Technologies in Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policies, Practices, Trends, and Recommendations The following report discusses the use of Information Communications Technologies (ICTs) to improve access to, quality of, and delivery of secondary education within sub-Saharan Africa. It discusses the policy environment for ICTs in sub-Saharan Africa, their successes, challenges, and lessons learned, and it concludes with a broad and detailed set of recommendations for policy makers, donors, the private sector, designers, and implementers of ICTs in education programs.
Event Gender Equality in and through Education The INEE Gender Task Team is pleased to invite you to a webinar on the new INEE Guidance Note on Gender! The webinar will include an introduction and overview of the key elements of the new Guidance Note on Gender. Presentations will feature selected highlights from each section of the Guide and Case Studies including: community mobilization for girls’ education in refugee communities in Kenya; gender-sensitive M&E in EiE in Somalia and Gender-responsive pedagogy teacher training in Mozambique and South Sudan
News Pyschologists build bonds between Turks, Syrians even as refugee sentiment sours A group of clinical psychologists has spent the last two years working in schools with large Syrian student bodies to build bonds between the two communities, train teachers to recognize and help troubled children and treat their psychic wounds.
Resource From local to global: advocacy for refugee education This webinar focused on advocating for education for refugees, and covered examples of what strategies have worked and what have not. Presenters talked about their experiences, from local, regional, and national advocacy campaigns to advocacy for refugee education at the global level.
Resource Transforming Systems in Times of Adversity: Education and Resilience This White Paper presents a conceptual framework as well as key recommendations for policy and education programming.
News New Database and Study Shine a Light on Disability and Education A new database launched today by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) captures the severe educational challenges faced by people with disabilities.
Resource Academic Readiness for Children (ARCH) - Turkey The Academic Readiness of Children in Arabic (ARCH-A) and Turkish (ARCH-T) is a measure that was designed to assess 8 domains of school readiness through a combination of child-completed performance tasks and parent-report survey questions.
