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Safe Back to School: Sierra Leone
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an existing learning crisis in Sierra Leone, and has disrupted the learning of over 2.4 million children across the country. The most marginalised and deprived children, including girls, children from poor households,
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Reopening Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean: Key points, challenges, and dilemmas to plan a safe return to in-person classes
The suspension of in-person classes as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected the education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and compromised the achievements reached around the goals established in the SDG-4-Education 2
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Without School: The impact of attacks on education in North West Syria on children
Ten years of conflict has affected the lives of millions of children in Syria, killing thousands. In 2019 alone, 251 children were killed in North West Syria alone during conflict. The conflict has also decimated civilian infrastructure, and schools have
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Save our Education:Responding to the education crisis in Burkina Faso
In early April 2020, to halt the spread of COVID-19, an estimated 1.6 billion learners globally – 91% of the total – were out of school. For the first time in human history, an entire generation of children globally have had their education disrupted. Thi
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Safe Schools Common Approach Proposal
Many children are not safe in and around school. Children's safety is threatened by violence, natural and everyday hazards and conflict, that affect their rights to survive, learn and be protected. Safe Schools is a comprehensive approach to promote child
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Back to Learning: Adapted local guidance for COVID-19 education facility reopening
The purpose of this document is to assist education partners to prepare for the eventual re-opening of schools and Learning Facilities/Centers in Cox’s Bazar host community as well as Refugee camps as it gives suggestions on how Education Sector partners
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Global School Safety: Collective impact evaluation of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector
The purpose of this study is to research and evaluate the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES) operating model, using the five core components of the Collective Impact (CI) approach as a framework (
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Safe Schools Common Approach: Ethics and child safeguarding annex
This Annex draws on various international documents on the ethical conduct of research, monitoring, and evaluation (RME), the codes of ethics of international agencies, ethical guidelines in social research (Save the Children UK and Save the Children US),
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Pacific Coalition For The Advancement Of School Safety: For a bright future safe from disasters for all children
The Pacific Coalition for the Advancement of School Safety (PCASS) is an initiative in support of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Worldwide Initiative for School Safety. PCASS has strengthened c
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Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability, and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in Urban Contexts: A 5-Step Process Guide, Consultation edition
Understanding Hazard, Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (HVCAs) in urban contexts helps you plan and choose your urban child-centred HVCA approaches more effectively. It helps you reflect upon and question the decisions you make during the HVCA and g
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Scalability Assessment and Planning (SAP) Toolkit
The Scalability Assessment and Planning Toolkit guides Scaling and Assessment Planning with corrective actions to strengthen or enable scaling up. While scaling up is complex and fraught with challenges, using the SAP Toolkit ensures your initiative has t
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Child-centred Hazard, Vulnerability, and Capacity Assessment and Planning in Urban Settings
To help develop Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) in urban areas, this report provides new elements for practitioners to better use Hazards, Vulnerabilities, and Capacities Assessment (HVCA) tools. In youth groups and in urban contexts, a wide