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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 RDD Strategy 2017-2021: Education and Skills Development (PDF, 2.28 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource can help you in understanding PIN's Global Education and Skills Development Strategy for 2017-2020 including goals, priorities and global indicators.

    PIN RDD Strategy 2017-2021: Education and Skills Development - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Strategies, Communication Materials
    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
    PIN (2019) Education in Emergencies Guides (ZIP, 4.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They 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.

    ZIP
    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 (2019) INDIKIT: Guidance on Education and Skills Indicators (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This link will take you to INDIKIT set of education and skills indicators, that can be used within your project proposal development.

    PIN (2019) INDIKIT: Guidance on Education and Skills Indicators - 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
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    Examples of PIN's Interventions

    PIN (2018) Learn and Share Together: Community-building Training Curriculum (ZIP, 18.04 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource provides structured guidance and a series of lesson plans to engage community members in activities aimed at improving social cohesion

    PIN (2018) Learn and Share Together: Community-building Training Curriculum - 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
    PIN (2016) Agricultural Labor market in Imereti - Georgia (PDF, 2.48 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.

    PIN (2016) Agricultural Labor market in Imereti - Georgia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2016) Engagement of the agricultural private sector in VET - Georgia (PDF, 1.19 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.

    PIN (2016) Engagement of the agricultural private sector in VET - Georgia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
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    Education in Emergencies (EiE) - Standards and Guidance

    PIN (2019) Education in Emergencies Guides (ZIP, 4.21 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource is divided into two Guides; "Part 1: WHAT EiE is, WHY we do it and what GUIDES us" and "Part 2: Planning, Implementing and Monitoring an EiE Response Introduction to PIN’s approach to EiE". They 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.

    ZIP
    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) The Child-Centred Approach to Education in Emergencies (PDF, 12.89 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This document outlines PIN's child-centred approach to education in emergencies (EiE)

    PIN (2020) The Child-Centred Approach to Education in Emergencies - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples
    Useful during: Initial Orientation
    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 (2020) Quality Standards Checklists (QSCs) for Education Projects (ZIP, 5.22 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource includes a series of Quality Standards Checklists (QSCs) for education. The QSCs include sections on planning, implementation and monitoring, and can be used as a checklist to assure quality throughout the project cycle. Included are QSCs for: Child Friendly Spaces, Psychosocial Support, School Rehabilitation, Cross-cutting Themes, a General School Checklist and Project Development.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists
    Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    PIN (2020) Guides for Teachers and Caregivers to Support Home-based Learning (ZIP, 10.81 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    These two guides provide guidance to teachers and parents/caregivers on how to support children's learning and wellbeing during school closures, and continuing once schools reopen. The guides may need to be adapted to local contexts, and where possible, they should be accompanied by contextualised illustrations to support lower literacy households.

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Checklists, Project Design Examples, Innovations
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Child Protection and Well-Being

    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
    PIN, EiE and CPWG Myanmar (2020) Wellbeing at Home Activity Book (DOCX, 7.9 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This Activity Book includes a collection of 60 activities to support children’s (and adult's) physical, social, emotional and cognitive wellbeing. It can be used by caregivers to provide activities for children at home or by facilitators to run activities with groups of children.

    DOCX
    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
    PIN (2018) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Tools (RAR, 1.82 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.

    RAR
    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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    Inclusion and gender

    United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (2021) EiE GenKit (PDF, 4.08 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    The EiE-GenKit is a series of tools and practical guidance that helps practitioners ensure education in emergencies (EiE) interventions and programmes are gender-responsive and inclusive

    United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative (2021) EiE GenKit - 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: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    INEE (2019) Guidance Note: Gender Equality in and through Education (PDF, 2.17 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This guide provides useful advice on how to promote gender-responsive programming in education.

    INEE (2019) Guidance Note: Gender Equality in and through Education - 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
    UNICEF (2017) Including Children With Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: Education (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This series of booklets provides insight into the situation of children with disabilities in humanitarian contexts, highlights the ways in which they are excluded from humanitarian action, and offers practical actions and tips to better include children and adolescents with disabilities in all stages of humanitarian action.

    UNICEF (2017) Including Children With Disabilities in Humanitarian Action: Education - overview
    Language: English, French, Arabic
    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
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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
    PIN (2018) Teacher Professional Development Tools - based on contextualised TICC materials (ZIP, 16.37 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This package of materials is based on the INEE Teachers in Crisis Contexts (TICC) materials. It includes tools and resources for conducting teacher training and professional development, including sample teacher training materials, M&E tools and guidance on establishing teacher learning circles (TLCs).

    ZIP
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Training Materials, Templates
    Useful during: Implementation
    Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Learning Outcomes

    PIN (2019) ASER Literacy and Numeracy Tools (RAR, 7.36 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.

    RAR
    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
    World Bank Group (2018) World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise (PDF, 9.22 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource can help you in understanding the importance of children's learning as a process where all actors at different level should be included, at class level, school level and system level.

    World Bank Group (2018) World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes
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    Labour market assessment and employment

    WRC (2013) Market Assessment Toolkit for Vocational Training Providers and Youth (PDF, 1.7 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    The three-part Market Assessment Toolkit for VT Providers and Youth is a combination of resources, questionnaires and activities to assist VT programs and youth to gather information on market demand and translate it into programming that responds to a dynamic business environment and youth needs.

    WRC (2013) Market Assessment Toolkit for Vocational Training Providers and Youth - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, 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
    PIN (2016) Agricultural Labor market in Imereti - Georgia (PDF, 2.48 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This research was conducted within the context of the TVET Imereti Project for PiN’s “Improving Formal, Non-formal and Informal Vocational Education for the Agribusiness in Georgia” project. The project is intended to improve the linkages between the labor market demands of the agribusiness sector, and the skills and qualifications offered by the formal, non-formal and informal VET.

    PIN (2016) Agricultural Labor market in Imereti - Georgia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Evaluation & Research Reports, Training Materials
    Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    DCED (2019) Employment Creation Website Page (URL)
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    When can it be useful?
    This website page involves a range of resources on employment creation, including publications that provide insights into solutions and challenges in creating jobs, it can be useful when searching for evidence on this topic.

    DCED (2019) Employment Creation Website Page  - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Innovations, 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
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    Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)

    PIN (2018) Guide: Improving Employment Through Market Driven Vocational Education And Training (PDF, 12.55 MB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This good practice guide provides practical guidance, examples and tools on engaging the private sector to ensure that Vocational Education and Training (VET) programmes sustainably increase access to productive and fulfilling employment opportunities.

    PIN (2018) Guide: Improving Employment Through Market Driven Vocational Education And Training  - 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: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers
    PIN (2016) Engagement of the agricultural private sector in VET - Georgia (PDF, 1.19 MB)
    View

    When can it be useful?
    This resources provides recommendations on how the VET sector, and particularly this project’s partner organizations (in this case in Imereti), can better engage with the private sector.

    PIN (2016) Engagement of the agricultural private sector in VET - Georgia - overview
    Language: English
    Region: Europe & Caucasus
    Resource type: Evaluation & Research Reports
    Useful during: Monitoring and Evaluation
    Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers
    OSU (2013) Competency-Based Education via the DACUM and SCID Process: An Overview (PDF, 409.72 KB)
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    When can it be useful?
    This resource can help you with a curriculum development process.

    OSU (2013) Competency-Based Education via the DACUM and SCID Process: An Overview - 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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