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  • This site offers the most useful technical resources that can help you increase the quality and impact of your education and skills programming. If you feel that an important resource is missing, let us know please.

    Key Resources

    PIN (2024) Global Education Brief (External) (PDF, 994.15 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This PIN Education Brief explains the approach PIN takes to education in humanitarian and development settings.

    PIN (2024) Global Education Brief (External) - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Communication Materials
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 1 - An Intro to EiE (PDF, 1.88 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Guide 1 provides a short introduction into what EiE is, why is it important and what guides its implementation. Together with Guide 2, it provides information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework, cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.

    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 1  - An Intro to EiE - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 2 - EiE Planning, Implementing and Monitoring (PDF, 2.61 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Guide 2 provides information about planning, implementing and monitoring an EiE response in accordance with PIN’s approach to EiE. Together with Guide 1, it provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework, cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.

    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 2 - EiE Planning, Implementing and Monitoring - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Examples of PIN's Interventions

    PIN (2024) - Nepal "Aarambha" project - Navigating the Journey to Education and TVET (PDF, 656.03 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document will be helpful to understand effective strategies for improving educational outcomes and life skills among marginalized girls in Nepal, focusing on transition path and in particular to TVET

    PIN (2024) - Nepal "Aarambha" project -  Navigating the Journey to Education and TVET - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Asia
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance

    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 1 - An Intro to EiE (PDF, 1.88 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Guide 1 provides a short introduction into what EiE is, why is it important and what guides its implementation. Together with Guide 2, it provides information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework, cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.

    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 1  - An Intro to EiE - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 2 - EiE Planning, Implementing and Monitoring (PDF, 2.61 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    Guide 2 provides information about planning, implementing and monitoring an EiE response in accordance with PIN’s approach to EiE. Together with Guide 1, it provide information on the theory of EiE, PIN’s EiE Framework, cross-cutting themes and step-by-step guidance on how to plan, implement and monitor EiE activities.

    PIN (2024) Education in Emergencies Guide 2 - EiE Planning, Implementing and Monitoring - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    PIN (2020) Psychosocial Support Best Practice Guide and Toolkit (ZIP, 17.58 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Guide provides key information on PIN’s approach to Psychosocial Support (PSS) – what it is, who it is for, when we do it and how we do it. It introduces the Framework that guides us and provides practical guidance and tools for how to design, implement and monitor PSS activities.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    PIN Education in Emergencies (EiE) Tools

    PIN (2021), School Improvement Planning (SIP) Toolkit (ZIP, 673.45 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource includes tools needed to set up a participatory approach to School Improvement Planning (SIP), engaging stakeholders in designing, budgeting for, implementing and monitoring activities towards school improvement. It includes: SIP Guidance Note, SIP checklist, SIP template and SIP reporting template.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2019) ASER Literacy and Numeracy Tools (ZIP, 11.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2018) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Tools (ZIP, 2.02 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This package of tools is based on the Strengths and Difficulties (SDQ) guidance and tools from "Youth in Mind" and can be used for the collection of data about children's psychological attributes. The package includes a briefing presentation and Guidance Note on conducting SDQ questionnaires as well as SDQ data collection tools.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Safe And Inclusive Learning Environment

    PIN (2021), School Improvement Planning (SIP) Toolkit (ZIP, 673.45 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource includes tools needed to set up a participatory approach to School Improvement Planning (SIP), engaging stakeholders in designing, budgeting for, implementing and monitoring activities towards school improvement. It includes: SIP Guidance Note, SIP checklist, SIP template and SIP reporting template.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2018) School Assessment and Selection Tools (ZIP, 761.06 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This package of tools can be used for assessing and selecting schools to support based on needs. It includes templates for assessing and prioritising needs as well as a sample selection criteria and sample Standard Operating Procedure. Tools should be adapted to a specific context.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    SCI (2021) Build Forward Better: How global community can protect education from the climate crisis (PDF, 2.96 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This briefing paper sets out how leaders can protect children’s learning from the impacts of the climate crisis, and the role that education can play in equipping the next generation with the tools they need to protect against its worst impacts.

    SCI (2021) Build Forward Better: How global community can protect education from the climate crisis - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Quality Teaching and Learning

    Learning Outcomes

    PIN (2019) ASER Literacy and Numeracy Tools (ZIP, 11.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This package of tools provides guidance on what ASER is and how to conduct literacy and numeracy assessments using the ASER tools. It also includes sample ASER tools that can be adapted to a specific context as well as a reporting template.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    USAID (2021) A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning - A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices (PDF, 1.98 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This review presents a roadmap that guides users through four steps of planning and designing how distance learning can be monitored and evaluated. Featuring several case studies, including PIN's LNGB in Nepal.

    USAID (2021) A Roadmap for Measuring Distance Learning - A Review of Evidence and Emerging Practices - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    GEEAP (2023) Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning (PDF, 6.72 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resources can help during project planning to determine what types of activites to include if the aim of the project is to improve learning outcomes.

    GEEAP (2023) Cost-Effective Approaches to Improve Global Learning - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Project Design Examples
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Teacher Professional Development and Wellbeing

    PIN (2018) Quality Standard Checklist for Trainings (PDF, 859.57 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This checklist will help you to make sure that every stage of the training process has been completed properly – from inclusion in the proposal, to budgeting, implementation and M&E.

    PIN (2018) Quality Standard Checklist for Trainings - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers, HR Officers
    PIN (2018) Guide: How to Deliver a Workshop or Training (PDF, 161.96 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide will help you to become a better facilitator in delivering training and workshop. You will understand different learning styles, you will improve participatory facilitation skills, you will learn how to structure a training/workshop with adequate facilitation techniques.

    PIN (2018) Guide: How to Deliver a Workshop or Training  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    INEE (2022) Guidance Note: Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings (PDF, 14.25 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Guidance Note gives advice on how to support teacher wellbeing in the five INEE domains. It explains how to: • promote mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for teachers; • create more enabling work environments for teachers; and • enhance teacher voice, agency, and leadership in crises. It also provides resources and tools and examples of these standards in practice.

    INEE (2022) Guidance Note: Teacher Wellbeing in Emergency Settings - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Environment and Climate Change Education

    EiE Hub (2023) Leveraging Education in Emergencies for Climate Action (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource looks at how climate change impacts education in emergencies while also highlighting ways in which EiE can be used to mitigate climate change impacts.

    EiE Hub (2023) Leveraging Education in Emergencies for Climate Action - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Plan International (2023) Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms & Pathways (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource is a research piece created by Plan International which addresses the intersection bewteen climate change and girls education.

    Plan International (2023) Climate Change and Girls' Education: Barriers, Gender Norms & Pathways - overview
    Language: English, French, Spanish
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    SCI (2021) Build Forward Better: How global community can protect education from the climate crisis (PDF, 2.96 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This briefing paper sets out how leaders can protect children’s learning from the impacts of the climate crisis, and the role that education can play in equipping the next generation with the tools they need to protect against its worst impacts.

    SCI (2021) Build Forward Better: How global community can protect education from the climate crisis - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
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    Child Protection and Well-Being

    GPCWG (2013) Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (PDF, 2.76 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource provides globally recognised minimum standards for Child Protection as well as key actions, measurements (including indicators and targets), and guidance notes on how to use these standards in practice

    GPCWG (2013) Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    IRC (2016) Safe Healing and Learning Spaces Toolkit (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Toolkit provides all the resources needed to initiate a Safe Healing Learning Space in an emergency including tools for social emotional learning (SEL), reading, maths and parental support.

    IRC (2016) Safe Healing and Learning Spaces Toolkit - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
    INEE (2018) Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support (PDF, 478.1 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Guidance Note provides key definitions and strategies for improving and supporting the standardisation of psychosocial support (PSS) interventions.

    INEE (2018) Guidance Note on Psychosocial Support - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Inclusion and gender

    INEE (2023) Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit (PDF, 615.73 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    The Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit compiles resources on: inclusive education, education in emergencies, disability inclusive education, and distance education across the humanitarian-development nexus.

    INEE (2023) Inclusive Distance Education Toolkit - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    INEE (2023) Disability-Inclusive EiE: Key Concepts, Approaches, and Principles for Practice Report (PDF, 1.43 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This report defines and clarifies key concepts and terminology for disability-inclusive education in emergencies (EiE) and provides seven guiding principles. It is meant to be used as a companion piece to the INEE Minimum Standards and to support stakeholders’ efforts to be more intentional in their design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of disability-inclusive EiE interventions.

    INEE (2023) Disability-Inclusive EiE: Key Concepts, Approaches, and Principles for Practice Report - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    Washington Group (2016) Module on Child Functioning: Questionnaires (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Module on Child Functioning is an international tool for assessment of functional difficulties in different domains incl. hearing, vision, communication/comprehension, learning, mobility and emotions.

    Washington Group (2016) Module on Child Functioning: Questionnaires - overview
    Language: English, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish, Russian
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Templates
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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