ECCE in Emergency Situations

Delivering Education for Children in Emergencies: A Key Building Block for the Future (International Save the Children, 2008)

This new report from Save the Children demonstrates that it is possible to provide quality education even in the midst of conflict. Moreover, while the international community is beginning to meet the challenge, there is much more that can be done if donor governments would rise to the occasion.

Education in Emergencies: Gender Implications (UNESCO, 2006)

This advocacy brief discusses the existing gender inequalities within situations of emergency, especially with regards to education in emergencies. 

Education in emergencies: A resource tool kit (Smith, M., Aguilar, P., & Woods, L., 2006)

This tool kit may be used as a resource to prepare and to re-establish education within situations of emergency. These materials can be used in three main ways: 1) as a resource in conjunction with education in emergencies training, 2) as a guide for emergency preparedness, and in particular, for preparing Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans, and 3) as a reference in the face of an emergency. 

Early childhood care and education in emergency situations  (Kamel, H., 2006)

Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Report 2007: Strong Foundations: Early Childhood Care and Education. This paper will seek to review progress made to date in meeting the rights of children 3-6 years old in emergency situations. It will examine whether the world has met its commitments to ensuring the rights of children to early care and education when their lives have been disrupted by devastation and displacement as a result of natural or man-made calamities. It will analyse policy and practice from around the world in order to reveal what has been achieved so far and the challenges which still remain ahead to ensure the rights of the world’s youngest children to adequate care and education in times of crisis. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations for further efforts necessary to ensure the care and education of young children in situations of emergency.

Chapter 1: Education in Emergencies. In Learning for a future: Refugee education in developing countries (Sinclair, M., 2006)

This paper reviews the rationale for education in situations of emergency and crisis, and the basic principles for emergency education. It provides examplars of these principles being reflected in recent emergencies. A final section examines the implications of the study for preparedness and cooperation.

Guidebook for planning education in emergencies and reconstruction (UNESCO, 2006)

The purpose of this guidebook is to support educational authorities in providing equal access to education of quality for children affected by conflict or disaster. In particular, this guidebook is primarily addressed to staff within ministries of education in countries affected by conflict or natural disasters, or hosting refugees from a neighbouring state. This book includes references and further readings sections at the end of each chapter, and also provides case studies from Rwanda, Kosovo, Timor Leste, and Southern Sudanese. This Guidebook is also intended for staff of United Nations organizations, donor agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in support of ministries to promote education for emergency-affected populations. Staff of those agencies will benefit from a fuller awareness of the ways in which they can strengthen national capacities for planning and management of education in and after periods of emergency.

Report to ECOSOC from UNESCO on Education in areas of emergency, crisis, and reconstruction and literacy (UNESCO, 2006)

This paper examines education in areas of emergency, crisis, and reconstruction, as well as identifies goals set by UNESCO. It also highlights issues of early childhood literacy among the world.

IRC's "Healing Classrooms" take a lively approach to learning (IRC, 2006)

Sudan:  Minimum standards for education in emergencies (Jesuit Refugee Service, 2006)

Education in emergencies: Learning for a peaceful future (Couldrey, M., & Morris, T. [Eds.], 2005)

This review explores education in emergency situations. Issues discussed include emergency education in Iraq, education that protects, peace education programs, Palestinian refugees in Syria, Darfur crisis in context, and much more.

Reshaping the Future: Education and Postconflict Reconstruction (The World Bank, 2005)

The paper offers an overview of the key findings from a study of education and postconflict reconstruction. It also draws upon a literature review, a database of key indicators for 52 conflict-affected countries, and a review of 12 country studies.

The role of education in protecting children in conflict (Nicolai, S., & Triplehorn, C., 2003)

This paper argues for a reappraisal of the position of education in emergency programming. It explores the links between education and the wider protection needs of the children it assists. It suggests that, as protection in conflict emerges more clearly as a legitimate humanitarian concern, so the role of education as a tool of protection must be more clearly understood. 

Planning education in and after emergencies (Sinclair, M., 2002)

Educating populations affected by crisis or natural disaster is vital for rebuilding a community. Providing access to education for children living in situations of emergencies should be maintained as a priority. The purpose of this series is to monitor the evolution and change in educational policies and their effect on educational planning requirements. In addition, the series highlights current issues of educational planning from their historical and societal contexts. It also provides methodologies of planning which can be applied to both the developed and developing worlds.

Emergency education in East Timor (IRC, 2000)

This case study highlights the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in promoting the community of East Timor to take leadership in the education of their children and youth. It examines the achievements of this project, as well as the approaches taken to access community resources (i.e., human and material) in order to increase available and sustainable educational opportunities.

Emergency Education; Save the Children US (SC) Early Childhood Program in Ex-Yugoslavia--Coordinators' Notebook No.19:  Children as Zones of Peace  (The Consultative Group on Early Childhood Care and Development, 1996).