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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

Monsoon / Cyclone / Landslide / Flood Key Messages for Temporary Learning Centre Facilitators and Students

The Bangladesh Education Cluster developed Key Messages for Temporary Learning Center facilitators and students. During the monsoon season, all students should be told, and regularly reminded of, the key messages in this document. Facilitators Should reinforce these messages regularly through role…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Advocacy
  • Emergency: Floods, Typhoon / Cyclone
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring

Elevating Education in Emergencies: Making Cash Transfer Work Framing Paper

The second instalment in the Elevating Education in Emergencies series takes stock of the work done within the education sector to implement cash transfer programming (CTP) and reflects upon the challenges, successes and opportunities for the future, with a focus on Iraq and Somalia.

  • Coordination: Coordination
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Cash Programming

Contact List Template

This template is intended to Cluster Coordinators and Information Management Officers an effective and useful contact list

  • Coordination: Coordination, Cluster Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning

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

Education Cluster input for an OCHA sitrep

This document provides guidance on how to write Education Cluster input for the OCHA sitrep

  • Coordination: Coordination, Information Management
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring

Annotated Reference Guide Attacks on Education

This Guide accompanies and complements The Role of the Education Cluster in Monitoring, Reporting and Responding to Attacks on Education: Field Guidance for Education Cluster Coordination Teams. The Annotated Guide contains a selection of recent global resources with a high level of relevance to…

  • Coordination: Coordination, Advocacy
  • Emergency: Conflict
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Attacks on Education

Reference Module for the Implementation of the Humanitarian Programme Cycle

The IASC Reference Module for the Implementation of the Humanitarian Program Cycle defines the roles and responsibilities of international humanitarian actors and the way that they interact with each other, national and local authorities, civil society and with people affected by crises. This…

  • Coordination: Coordination
  • HPC: Implementation & Monitoring, Needs Assessment & Analysis, Operational Peer Review and Evaluation, Resource Mobilisation, Strategic Planning
  • Technical Areas: Accountability to Affected Populaiton

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