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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

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLAN FOR THE COX’S BAZAR EDUCATION SECTOR 2018

The influx of over 650,000 Rohingya since September 2017, coupled with extreme hazards in monsoon season and overcrowding, has created many challenges for the Education Sector responding to the crisis in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Educational activities have grown difficult to implement due to the…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • Emergency: Floods, Displacement
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Protection

People-Centred Approaches in Humanitarian Coordination: Reviewing and Improving Cluster Performance

This matrix and accompanying presentation and facilitation notes can be used to help national clusters to review and assess their performance and prioritise actions to ensure people are at the centre of the cluster's work. The matrix uses the Core Cluster Performance Management (CCPM) survey as the…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Localisation Checklist

This checklist provides guidance for ensuring local organisations are deliberately and explicitly engaged throughout the Cluster Strategy document and development process. Local partnership is an essential element of any emergency response, and Strategy development is a key moment to draw on the…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Localisation

Burundi EiE Working Group Response Strategy for 2017-2019

The Burundi Education in Emergencies Working Group (EiEWG) has developed a response strategy for 2017-2019 based on secondary data review and experience from partners in the education sector. This document aims to offer a strategic and collective framework for all stakeholders involved in EiE…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • Emergency: Conflict, Complex, Floods, Displacement
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Protection

Accountability to Affected Populations Checklist

This checklist provides guidance for integrating accountability to affected populations throughout the Cluster Strategy document and development process. It follows the same step-by-step structure as the full Guide to Developing Education Cluster Strategies Available in the Strategy Package.

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Yemen Education Cluster Strategy 2016-2017

The overarching goal of the Education Cluster will be to ensure access to safe, equitable and quality education and to strengthen the capacity of the education system and communities to deliver a timely and evidence-based education response. The cluster will ensure strong partnership at community…

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • Emergency: Conflict, Complex, Displacement
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

Education in Emergencies Response Plan for Afghanistan

Education in Emergencies Response Plan for Afghanistan prepared by the Education Working Group in November 20106.

  • Coordination: Cluster Strategy
  • Emergency: Conflict, Complex, Displacement
  • HPC: Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Protection

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