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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…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • Emergency: Conflict, Displacement
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Protection

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.

  • Coordination: Needs Assessment, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Needs Assessment & Analysis
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton, Localisation

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.

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton, Localisation

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…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Localisation

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.

  • Coordination: Knowledge Mangement, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • Emergency: Drought, Displacement
  • HPC: Operational Peer Review and Evaluation
  • Technical Areas: Protection

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