This protocol provides clear and actionable guidance for the safe reopening of educational institutions. It details how protective measures of social distancing, hand hygiene and respiratory hygiene can be managed within the school environment. It gives detailed guidance on cleaning and disinfection. With regards to the safety of canteens in times of COVID-19, the protocol includes some instructions related to food services. It also discusses MHPSS needs, vulnerable children and how to manage suspected cases of COVID-19. 

COVID-19: Protocol for the safe and healthy re-opening of UNRWA educational institutions’ UNRWA-2020

COVID-19: Protocol for the Safe and Healthy Re-Opening of UNRWA Educational Institutions’ UNRWA-2020

The MHPSS and EiE Toolkit offers access to key documents and resources of relevance to those working in the fields of Education in Emergencies (EiE) and of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS). 

MHPSS and EIE

COVID-19

Reopening Schools During COVID-19

The Mapping and Assessment (M&A) Report Repository is a searchable collection of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) needs assessments, mappings, and desk reviews that have been conducted in humanitarian settings. 

Marcio Gagliato

Mapping and Assessment Report Repository

This collection offers access to key guidance, manuals, tools, case studies and other resources related to the use of Community-Based approaches to Mental Health and psychosocial Support (CB-MHPSS).

Ananda Galappatti

Community-Based Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

The Children and Families MHPSS Resource Collection offers access to a wide range of key materials that are relevant to mental health and psychosocial support work with children and families across humanitarian and development settings.

The Children and Families Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Resource Collection

The IASC Common Monitoring and Evaluation Framework for MHPSS Programmes was released for field test in 2017. In 2021, the Common Framework was updated to include qualitative and quantitative means of verification (MoV) for impact-level indicators in the framework. MHPSS.net developed the IASC MHPSS M&E Framework MoV toolkit to accompany the framework and serve as a resource to maintain and disseminate these tools in a single, easy to use format.

IASC MHPSS M&E FRAMEWORK MOV

This toolkit is a compilation of a range of several practice guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in humanitarian contexts, to enable easy access to key multi-lingual resources.