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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

Memorandum of Understanding South Sudan Education Cluster Co-Leadership

South Sudan Memorandum of Understanding between Save the Children and UNICEF regarding Cluster C0-leadership

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

Memorandum of Understanding Iraq Education Cluster Co-Leadership

In Iraq, It has been agreed that UNICEF and Save the Children will be co-lead agencies, in line with the global arrangement. The present Memorandum of Understanding outlines the modalities for this arrangement.

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

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

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

Memorandum of Understanding for MALI Education Cluster Lead and Co-Lead Arrangement

In line with the global agreement, UNICEF and Save the Children have also been designated as Lead and Co-Lead Agencies respectively of the Mali Education Cluster, The present Memorandum of Understanding outlines the modalities for the Lead and Co-Lead arrangement.

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

Memorandum of Understanding Ukraine Education Cluster Co-Lead Arrangement

This document is an example of MoU between Save the Children and UNICEF in Ukraine

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

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

Inter-Sector Integration Tip Sheet

Clusters/Working Groups should have direct conversations with each of the different sector’Technical Advisors to ensure that activities are planned in an integrated fashion wherever possible. Identify activities that are complementary to each other, discuss them with the team at large during team…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Strategy, Inter-Sector Coordination
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, 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

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