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Besoins Humanitaires et Plan de Réponse 2024 (janvier 2024)

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…

EDUCATION CLUSTER ASSESSMENT ON THE STATE OF EDUCATION IN CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

At the time of this assessment in April 2015 the Central African Republic (CAR) was slowly recovering from two years of insecurity and political instability. Large areas of the country were still suffering from occupation by and in-fighting between various armed groups. This assessment was…

A Step Back: The impact of the recent crisis on education in Central African Republic

In December 2012, various rebel groups gathered under the monikerSéléka("coalition" in Sango) in the Central African Republic (CAR) and began a military campaign throughout the country, culminating in a coup d’étaton 24 March 2013.The education system has been severely affected.Schools closed(and…

Lessons Learned from Horn of Africa Drought Crisis

The purpose of this lessons learned exercise is to highlight the key elements of the Education Cluster coordination and response that worked well, which worked less well and why, and to articulate recommendations for improvement.

Ethical Principles, Dilemmas and Risks in Collecting Data on Violence against Children

Ethical guidelines are crucial when carrying out research on violence against children (VAC). This literature review is a contribution to the foundations for the development of such ethical guidelines. It aims to capture current thinking around ethical issues and provide empirical support to guide…

The Child Friendly Community Assessment Tools: A Facilitator’s Guide to the Local Assessment of Children’s Rights

This guidebook describes a detailed step-by-step process for broadly assessing and monitoring children’s living conditions in communities of cities and towns of different sizes as well as in rural communitie. The assessment process outlined in the guidebook enables the collection of community level…