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Planning Meetings with Cluster Lead Agencies

This document contains guidance around topics that should be included in (initial) meetings with Cluster Lead Agency/Agencies (CLA) – considering Cluster experience of the UNICEF Representative and the Save the Children Country Director:

Operational Guidance Note: the use of schools, educational facilities and temporary learning centres as shelter

Ideally School buildings and education facilities should not be used as shelter by families who have been displaced due to conflict. Using school buildings as shelter denies displaced and host community children access to safe learning environments.However, in a case of mass displacement where no…

Guide to Education in Emergencies Needs Assessments

The purpose of the Guide and Needs Assessment Packages to provide practical, relevant guidance and resources to education in emergencies (EiE) coordination staff conducting, coordinating and participating in secondary data reviews and joint, harmonized and/or multi-sector needs assessments.

Guide to Developing Education Cluster Strategies

The purpose of this Guide and accompanying Strategy Package is to provide practical, relevant guidance and resources to education in emergencies (EiE) coordination staff on how to develop and update an Education Cluster Strategy.

Strategy Task Team Terms of Reference

This template is designed for you to contextualize and adapt so that it meets the needs of your Strategy process. Do not forget to change the heading above and delete this guidance before you finalize! More guidance on how to establish a Strategy Task Team is in Section 1.1 of the full Guide to…

Localisation in Coordination

"The World Humanitarian Summit recognised that increased localisation is fundamental to the delivery of a dignified and effective humanitarian response, concluding that humanitarian action should be “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The associated Grand Bargain emphasized the…

Ethiopia Education Cluster Terms of Reference

The Ethiopia Education Cluster was established in 2008. In response to the recent crisis, the Ethiopia Education Cluster is reactivated in January 2016. It is led by the Ministry of Education and co-led by UNICEF and Save the Children. The Education Cluster creates a forum for leadership and…

Strategic Advisory Group Terms of Reference Template

If you need to develop a Strategic Advisory Group ToR this example from South Sudan might prove a helpful starting point. It will need to be contextualized to your context.

South Sudan Education Needs Assessment- Term of Reference

"The key objective of this assessment is to get an understanding of the situation of education and impact of two and half years of violence and displacement on the sector that: Specific objective 1: Provides key findings for external stakeholders to understand the situation, inform proposals and…

South Sudan Assessment Working Group Terms of Reference