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IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) for the Education Cluster: A Guidance

Guidance on obtaining useful data from IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) to inform emergency education planning and response

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.

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…

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

Questionnaire Design: How to design a questionnaire for needs assessment in humanitarian emergencies

The questionnaire is a critical tool in humanitarian response and requires time, resources and a detailed understanding of the context, factors which are all in short supply during an emergency. This technical brief aims to support the design of questionnaires for use in humanitarian emergencies by…

Myanmar Education in Emergencies Sector Caseload Description

This document provides a step-by-step description and rationale for calculating the total number of people in need of EiE assistance in Myanmar in 2017.

Joint Education Needs Assessment Terms of Reference Template

Draft and agree-upon a ToR which should include: a brief background to the assessment, objectives, proposed sampling strategy and geographic coverage, data collection technique, expected outputs, roles and responsibilities, and timeframe. It is important to draft this ToR early in the assessment…