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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…

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…

Memorandum of Understanding South Sudan Education Cluster Co-Leadership

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

Global Education Cluster Mid Year Report January - June 2018

The Global Education Cluster (GEC) Mid-Year Report provides an update on the progress made by the GEC team against its revised 2017-2019 Strategic Plan. It highlights key achievements under each of the GEC strategic pillars – accountability, partnership, and humanitarian-development nexus –and core…

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.

Somalia Education Cluster Operational Framework 2018-2020

The Somalia Education Cluster Operational Framework 2018-2020 is the key guiding document for the Education Cluster work in the upcoming years. It outlines the strategic directions, key approaches and activities and operational modalities in order to achieve the objectives. Through this, the…

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…

Memorandum of Understanding Education Working Group Co-Lead Arrangement Afghanistan

As it has at the Global level, it has been agreed that the co-leadership agreement will be replicated in Afghanistan with Save the children and UNICEF acting as Co-Leads agencies, in line with the global arrangement. The present Memorandum of Understanding outlines the modalities for this…

Localisation in Coordination

"The World Humanitarian Summit recognised that increased localisation is fundamental to the delivery of a dignified and effective humanitarian response, concluding that humanitarian action should be “as local as possible, as international as necessary.” The associated Grand Bargain emphasized the…

Global Education Cluster Key Achievements 2017