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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:

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

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…

  • Coordination: Cluster Management, Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

Contact List Template

This template is intended to Cluster Coordinators and Information Management Officers an effective and useful contact list

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

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.

  • Coordination: Cluster Management, Cluster Strategy
  • Emergency: Conflict, Complex, Displacement
  • HPC: Strategic Planning

Meeting Minutes Template

A template for coordination staff to use for meeting minutes.

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Strategic Planning

Guidance on Working with Governments

How can a Cluster promote partnership with (sub-)national governments?Close coordination and collaboration with government efforts in a humanitarian response is an essential part of the cluster approach. The nature of these links will depend on the emergency context and the willingness, capacity…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Resource Mobilisation, Strategic Planning

Workplan with Gantt Chart Template

Use this template to develop your cluster or working group workplan. Read through the instructions on the first tab to learn how to use this template.

  • Coordination: Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Strategic Planning

Guidance on Cluster Leadership for Save the Children Country Offices: The Benefits, the Role and the Responsibilities

As a Cluster Lead Agency (CLA), Save the Children is inherently responsible for the effective establishment, management and sustained global and national support of the Education Cluster. The following document outlines the benefits to SC as well as the responsibilities of the Country Director (CD…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management, Leadership
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Resource Mobilisation, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Education Clusters Indicators

The humanitarian indicator registry is complementary to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) reference module. The education indicators listed in the registry have been developed by the Global Education Clusters.

  • Coordination: Cluster Management, Needs Assessment, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

Contact List Guidance

This guidance will help walk you through how to use the contact list template

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

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