MHPSS and EIE Toolkit

Gender Equality Programming in Emergencies in Education

This document provides concise guidance on how to incorporate Gender Equality in the education sector needs assessments, activities and outcomes. It includes the ADAPT and ACT-C framework tool for use when designing or vetting a projects or programmes to integrate gender dimensions, and gives suggestions of minimum commitments, with example activities and indicators.

Including Children with Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: Education

This resource provides insight into the situation of children with disabilities in humanitarian contexts, and offers practical actions and tips to better include children and adolescents with disabilities in all stages of humanitarian action. This booklet focuses on inclusion in education. It explains the twin track approach for inclusion and covers preparedness, response and early recovery, and recovery and reconstruction phases. The actions and practical tips are relevant across various humanitarian contexts: rapid-onset disasters, such as flood, earthquake, typhoon or tsunami; slow-onset disasters, such as drought or famine; health emergencies, such as Ebola; forced displacement, including refugees and internally displaced persons; and armed conflict, including protracted crisis.

EiE-GenKit: A Core Resource Package on Gender in Education in Emergencies

The resource provides education practitioners with practical tools to promote gender-responsive programming from contexts of crisis to peace and sustainable development. It is based on extensive research and consultation with the latest resources, evidence, tools and good practice available in one easy-to-use package. The EiE-GenKit offers tools for practical and immediate use including checklists, tipsheets and assessment templates supporting practitioners to ensure that each phase of an EiE intervention is gender-responsive. It aims to promote improved gender and education outcomes of learners living in crises by bridging the gap between what we know about gender-responsive EiE and the tools we need to make it happen.

Education in Emergencies: Including Everyone INEE Pocket Guide to Inclusive Education

The INEE pocket guide outlines some of the common challenges that children and young people with disabilities might face with education in or after an emergency. It discusses constraints and concerns that teachers may have and offers practical ideas for including children and young people with disabilities in education before, during or after an emergency. It outlines useful principles for an inclusive education approach in emergencies and provides advice for planning, implementing and monitoring. It also looks at the issue of resistance to inclusion, and highlights ways in which organisations can support their emergency staff to develop more inclusive education responses. It is intended for those working to support teachers, including teacher trainers, school inspectors or supervisors and education programme managers, or teachers or facilitators who are able to do self-study.

Towards Gender-Sensitive Classrooms: Guide for Teachers

The purpose of the guide is to improve teachers’ understanding of gender issues and provide them with activities to address gender biases. The practices and activities in the guide can be integrated by teachers into their daily work, such as: gender-neutral language - to avoid language biases; teaching in mixed schools - to address gender in coeducational schools; and gender in the curriculum - to mitigate possible curriculum biases.

Guidelines for Integrating Gender-Based Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Action

These guidelines provide practical guidance and tools for humanitarians and communities to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for the prevention and mitigation of gender-based violence, throughout all stages of emergency response, from preparedness to recovery. There are dedicated sections on education (section 3, p 97-120) and child protection (section 2, p73-96).

How to Communicate with Children with Disabilities?

This resource is designed for those working with school-age children and adolescents and provides guidance on how to communicate with and include disabled children. It discusses issues such as tolerance, inclusive education, and different types of disabilities. Tips on communication with children who have disabilities are provided according to the type of disability.

The Inclusive Education Strategy

The Inclusive Education Policy and Strategy provides a unified framework to support UNRWA fields and schools in moving towards inclusive education. It is based on support at three levels: quality, inclusive and child-centred education in a safe and stimulating environment for all students; the provision of additional support for children with additional needs; and the development of support systems to better respond to children with extensive needs. The strategy outlines a set of standards that set out an inclusive approach in relation to school and classroom practices, education administration, and support staff and services. It emphasizes how progressive, gradual steps within each dimension may be taken to realize these standards within the available resources.

INEE Gender Training Manual

This training manual outlines 4-8 hours of training activities and materials related to gender-responsive education in emergencies. These training materials include guidance for facilitators (including key concepts, activity instructions, and discussion guides), presentation slides, and activity handouts for participants. Facilitators are encouraged to first review the instructions prior to training, which provides guidance for contextualization of the training resources.

Sport and Play for All: A Manual on Including Children and Youth with Disabilities

This manual provides tips, guidance and advice on disability and inclusion, with the primary aim of enhancing users’ knowledge about how to create inclusive communities via sports and physical activities. It encompasses many training materials used during the Sports for All Project in Sri Lanka and features games and sports which have been field tested and adapted to enable children with disabilities to participate.