Resource The Sphere Handbook: Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response The principal users of The Sphere Handbook are practitioners involved in planning, managing or implementing a humanitarian response.
Resource Social service workers in schools: Their role in addressing violence against children and other child protection concerns This technical note broadly defines the scope of services that the social service workforce, if sufficiently resourced and supported, could provide working in or with schools. It also outlines the multi-agency child protection services in or linked to schools that governments and ministries of education should support in order to uphold children’s right to learning and protection from violence.
Resource Kit of Tools for Participatory Research and Evaluation with Children, Young People and Adults Save the Children Norway has undertaken a two-year thematic evaluation and documentation of children’s participation in armed conflict, post conflict and peace building (2006-2008) in four countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Guatemala, Nepal and Uganda.
Resource All children back in school! Dropout prevention modules for teachers and school teams These modules aim to provide school teams, including school directors, teachers and other education professionals working in or with schools, with the knowledge, skills, attitudes and tools to support the (re)enrolment of all children in schools, particularly those most marginalized, and to prevent and respond to dropout effectively in the coming years.
Resource Thinking Outside the Classroom: Theories of Change and Measures to Support the Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Distance Learning Programs This document is intended to be a living framework for thinking and talking about primary and secondary school-aged distance education interventions, beginning in low and middle-income (LMIC) and humanitarian contexts and expanding over time to include distance education interventions designed for high-income contexts.
Resource United Nations Human Rights Mechanisms and the Right to Education in Insecurity and Armed Conflict This publication identifies trends in the practice and contribution of UN human rights mechanisms to the protection of education in times of insecurity and armed conflict and offers recommendations on how such protection might be strengthened.
Resource Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities The Humanitarian inclusion standards for older people and people with disabilities help humanitarian organisations ensure nobody is marginalised or left behind during emergency responses.
Resource Alternative Education: Filling the Gap in Emergency and Post-conflict Situations This book reviews some alternative education programmes, including those providing alternative access, such as accelerated learning programmes and home-based or community-based schools. It also examines programmes that are alternative in curriculum provision, offering non-traditional subjects such as HIV and AIDS prevention or landmine awareness, and those that provide an alternative pedagogy, using more learner-centred and participatory techniques.
Resource INEE Round Table on Psychosocial Support and Social and Emotional Learning This round table brings together education and psychosocial support practitioners and researchers working in the field of education in emergencies (EiE) and protracted crises, with the aim of sharing recent research and tools, discussing innovative approaches, and articulating knowledge gaps in the field of psychosocial support (PSS) and social and emotional learning (SEL).
Resource Operational Guidance for Coordinated Assessments in Humanitarian Crises The Operational Guidance promotes a coordinated approach to assessments in order to address a number of recurring issues during emergencies.
