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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

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

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

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