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Guidance on Cluster Leadership for Save the Children Country Offices: The Benefits, the Role and the Responsibilities

As a Cluster Lead Agency (CLA), Save the Children is inherently responsible for the effective establishment, management and sustained global and national support of the Education Cluster. The following document outlines the benefits to SC as well as the responsibilities of the Country Director (CD…

Cluster Coordination Reference Module (CCRM)

This Cluster Coordination Reference Module outlines the basic elements of cluster coordination and intends to serve as a reference guide for field practitioners to help facilitate their work and improve humanitarian outcomes

Assessment Report Presentation on the Effect of Ebola on Education in Liberia

Needs assessment report presentation prepared by the Liberia Education Cluster on the effects of ebola on education in Liberia.

Assessment of the Effect of Ebola on Education in Liberia

Following the Ebola outbreak, schools in Liberia were ordered closed in July 2014. They remained closed for more than 7 months, until the start of the school year 2014/2015, from 16 February onwards. In order to determine the impact of Ebola on education in Liberia, the Ministry of Education and…

Photo Consent and Release Form

Liberia Needs Assessment Budget

Liberia Education Cluster's Budget for their Joint Education Needs Assessment 2014

How to Approach a Dataset: Part1 - Database Design

his technical note provides guidance in how to set up a simple database suitable for storing small amounts of data as may be generated by a rapid assessment with relatively small sample sizes.It is aimed at supporting non-specialists in information management with a working knowledge of spreadsheet…

Guidelines for Children’s Participation in humanitarian Programming

The guidelines support emergency preparedness efforts to strengthen staff and partners’ capacity to support meaningful children’s participation, and include tips and and tools to enhance meaningful children’s participation in the emergency response and in transitions to relief, reconstruction and…

Compared to what: Analytical Thinking and Needs Assessment

This technical brief is based on three years of experience in analysing needs in emergency settings. It is the first of three ACAPS documents on the analysis of humanitarian needs. Readers are advised to complement this reading with the technical brief How Sure Are You?which explores how to judge…

Building an Effective Assessment Team

The purpose of this document is to provide team composition definitions and descriptions of the functions that need to be filled in to perform a joint rapid assessment in the first weeks of a disaster. This technical brief is designed to guide the first steps of assembling an assessment team,…