Foundational Areas of Work
Across humanitarian action, there are established best practices to ensure programs are context-specific, culturally responsive, effective, and efficient. Much of that is related to the process stakeholders take to determine the most effective and responsive programming, build relationships and work in a coordinated way with others to support families, schools / learning environments, and communities. Those practices and programming evolve as the context and needs of communities change across the life of a response.
The protection of affected populations and provisions of basic services are the responsibilities of a country’s government. Education and Protection Clusters/coordination mechanisms must consider how their activities strengthen and support the government’s immediate and long-term response abilities.
Children, as an evidence-based resource for governments, international agencies, non-governmental organizations and individuals committed to preventing and responding to violence against children. Ten core agencies collaborated on its development, including the World Health Organization (WHO)...
The purpose of this toolkit is to support the design and implementation of M&E Frameworks for specific accelerated education programmes in order to support learning and accountability.The toolkit consists of a user manual plus five tools in a single Excel document (Annex 4) which are all editable...
Delivering effective education, especially in low-resourced settings, is hard. The fact that nine out of ten children in low-income countries cannot read by age 10 is a testament to this challenge. Adding to these difficulties is the reality that many, if not most, international education...
Hundreds of millions of children around the world are not learning despite being in school. It is estimated that 262 million children worldwide will reach the last grade of primary education but will not achieve the minimum proficiency levels in reading. To compound the problem, teachers are often...
USAID Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN) has developed a Safer Learning Environments (SLE) Assessment Toolkit. Three previous drafts of the toolkit have been piloted by teams in nine countries and the final version is ready to use. This version is a significant revision to the SLE...
The purpose of the toolkit is to provide guidance on how to develop and implement systems for monitoring child protection issues that affect children in humanitarian settings, as well as for monitoring the child protection response. Acknowledging the multifaceted nature of protection, this toolkit...
This document outlines some potential safeguarding risks of monitoring, evaluation, accountability, and learning (MEAL) and research activities, and provides suggestions of how to manage these activities so that they are as safe for affected children and adults as possible.This is guidance for Save...
The Measurement Library is a collection of measurement tools to assess children’s learning and holistic development and service provider quality in crisis contexts. The tools are meant to help education practitioners generate high-quality data to inform program planning and review.
This framework provides a way for education in emergency (EiE) stakeholders to demonstrate alignment with and progress towards the INEE Minimum Standards. Until now there has been no common set of indicators mapped against each standard; this tool fills that gap.The indicators are not intended to be...
This Resource List catalogues critical resources to guide ethical good practices in participatory research with children in humanitarian contexts. It is not an exhaustive compilation, nor does it propose new ethical guidelines. Instead, it highlights existing tools that help researchers and...
Children with disabilities are particularly vulnerable in humanitarian settings, yet they are often not able to access the services and protection they need. While multiple factors create these barriers, a major cause is how data about children with disabilities is collected and mapped. Data...
The Alliance AME Working Group is excited to present the Child Well-Being Contextualization Guide! The package of child well-being resources includes:
1) Defining and Measuring Child Well-Being in Humanitarian Action: A Contextualization Guide
Ensuring children’s well-being is generally...
An easy-to-navigate PDF, the Enhanced CPMS Indicators Table includes the 28 Child Protection Minimum Standards and their indicators with type, target values and explanatory notes plus suggested computation methods and data source examples. Developed by the Assessment, Measurement and Evidence...
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