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The Safeguarding Resource and Support Hub (RSH) is a programme that aims to support organisations in the aid sector to strengthen their safeguarding policy and practice against Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Sexual Harassment.

RSH has an Online Hub website available in English, Arabic, French and Swahili and is free for anyone working in the aid sector to use. It includes:

• A resource library with a huge selection of guidance and tools on safeguarding;
• A free e-learning course available in many languages and more.

The resource library has several documents, e-learning courses and podcasts on child safeguarding and education.

Visit the hub.

Global Partnership in Education has published a case study of education of girls in Yemen.

“Yemen’s conflict has left more than 4.5 million children out of school and disrupted the education of many more, including Ragda’s whose schooling was interrupted for 6 months. Fortunately, Ragda has been able to advance through secondary school, but her family, like so many others, had to flee conflict and relocate to a more peaceful part of the country. Ragda’s mother, who never learned how to read, earns a living making henna and is a strong believer in the importance of education.”

Read the case study.

Humanity & Inclusion has published a factsheet on education for adolescent girls with disabilities. They have created a short video to present the main findings: Adolescent girls with disabilities are disproportionately excluded from education due to the overlapping discrimination based on age, gender, and disability.

Watch the video.

Read the factsheet.

Education Cannot Wait has published a new report on the State of Education for Crisis-Affected Children and Adolescents:

“The number of school-aged children in crises worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education has reached 234 million – an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years. Of these, 85 million are out of school. Refugees, internally displaced children, girls and children with disabilities remain among those most impacted by these intersecting crises.”

Read more details and download the report.

According to the literature, data systems often fail to capture the experiences and needs of marginalized groups such as children with disabilities or those from low socioeconomic backgrounds and are often underutilized to predict educational needs in terms of access and learning, and to allocate for those needs.

GPE KIX projects emphasized the need to draw on multiple sources of data. The blog gives examples where data is used successfully to improve education.

Read the blog.

Education Above All Foundation (EAA) developed ‘Let Kids Be Kids’ Activity Books, which is a cost-free and open-source bank of 100 activities for 5- to 14-year-olds, packaged into concise and engaging books for teachers.

Teachers can pick and choose activities based on their convenience and deliver them through both in-person and remote modalities, tested in Lebanon.

Access the books in English and Arabic. Access the Facilitator Manual and Briefing Note in the same link.

Access Education Above All’s other resources for all age groups.

This blog tells the story of Aya and how she was able to return to school and learning.

“Aya found a second chance at education at Hai Alarab School for Girls in Kassala State, which operated as a safe learning space while many schools were closed. Safe learning spaces are established in places where it is not safe or feasible to reopen schools. They are child-friendly, inclusive spaces set up using existing community structures where possible or by establishing new spaces as needed.”

“The dedicated teachers and facilitators at the school have received specialized training in child-centered teaching methods and life skills, critical for managing large classes.”

Read the blog.

In Zimbabwe, girls have increasingly higher dropout rates than boys: 8,000 more girls than boys left secondary school in 2021, double the disparity in 2019. With the support of GPE funding, 1,090 young women have trained as peer educators, volunteering at their local secondary school for 18-24 months.

Read more about the project and read from some of the peer educators.

The Chance for Childhood YouTube channel has videos for teaching strategies for children with social interaction difficulties, visual difficulties, reading and writing difficulties, and for children with ADHD and concentration difficulties. Chance for Childhood is a charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children.

Access the video resources.