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Girls’ Education and Climate Change: Investing in Education for Resilience Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief was developed to support dissemination of key messages in Mind the Gap 2: Seeking Safe and Sustainable Solutions for Girls’ Education in Crises. It provides an overview of evidence and gaps on the relationship between girls’ education and climate crises, and recommends actions to mitigate the impacts of climate change on girls’ education and promote resilience. 
Promoting Climate-Sensitive Early Childhood Care and Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2023 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief addresses a gap in climate change and education literature: young children who are affected by crises. Climate mitigation and adaptation efforts often exclude early childhood care and education (ECCE), especially in crises and emergencies. Therefore, the brief outlines multisectoral ECCE interventions that can serve as solutions to broader climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. These interventions look at long-term solutions that reduce children’s exposure to climate change risks. The aim of these long-term solutions is to create new climate-adapted ways of thinking, being, and doing by focusing on care – for each other and for the earth – and by building climate resilience among children and their supporting care systems. 
Hidden Scars: How Violence Harms the Mental Health of Children Year of publication: 2020 Author: Ghizlane Benjelloun Corporate author: United Nations (UN) Despite these obligations and commitments, violence against children continues to take a heavy toll on their mental health and their ability to learn, grow and develop to their full potential. This report aims to support this process. It provides an overview of international evidence on the different ways in which violence harms children’s mental health, highlighting the urgent need for action. In doing so, the report considers diverse settings and forms of violence, the developmental differences in the effects of violence, and the most significant risk and protective factors. The report also highlights solutions, recognizing that despite the continuing gaps in our knowledge, there are effective approaches that should be pursued. 
Background paper: Coordination between Humanitarian and Development Work in the Education Sector: Working Together in a Crisis Context Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) The education sector is charged with a responsibility to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all, per Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4). The current trend of complex and longer-term crises, whether caused by the climate emergency, violent conflict, or a pandemic, threatens progress toward SDG4 targets. As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taught us, no country or education system is immune from crisis; therefore, building resilience is the key not only to avoiding losses but to sustaining and progressing toward our shared goals in the education sector. Collective action is needed across the humanitarian-development spectrum to build inclusive and adaptable education systems that are prepared for and have the capacity to respond to crises, so that every child and young person has a chance to go to school, stay in school, and complete a full cycle of primary and secondary education.This report is aimed at members of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE), which includes a broad range of humanitarian, development, government, and civil society actors who are working to ensure that all individuals have the right to a quality, safe, relevant, and equitable education. The purpose of the report is to demystify the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and to propose a set of actions and recommendations to strengthen such coherence in the education sector. The report also provides guidelines for INEE members and education stakeholders to take collective action, and to advocate for improved coherence within their own agencies and across the education sector’s full spectrum of policy and programming.This report recapitulates the concept of humanitarian-development coherence and why it is critical, provides an overview of barriers to coherence in the education sector, identifies illustrative examples of coherent action, and offers concrete recommendations for improved coherence, as summed up through a “Learn-Convene-Adapt” framework.To explain the concept of humanitarian-development coherence, this paper adopts the New Ways of Working definition, which describes humanitarian-development coherence as working over multiple years toward collective outcomes, based on the comparative advantage of a diverse range of actors (see definitions, p. 6). The paper argues that humanitarian-development coherence is critical to ensuring that all children have access to uninterrupted quality education, which promotes their increased resilience and overall development. While education can provide significant benefits for individuals, communities, and countries, establishing resilient education systems requires multi-year planning, coordination, and investment in the education sector.To unpack the bottlenecks to coherence in education, the paper uses the conceptual framework proposed in the USAID white paper, Education and Humanitarian-Development Coherence (Nicolai et al., 2019). This framework outlines three levels of action that influence conditions for coherence: Norms, Capacities, and Operations. The barriers identified and explored in the paper are the following: 
Creating an Enabling Non-formal Education Environment for Adolescents and Youth: Issues and Considerations for Crisis and Conflict Setting Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This policy brief offers recommendations to strengthen the policy environment within which non-formal education is delivered and highlights key considerations for those planning, designing and implementing non-formal programmes that seek to meet the core education and skill development challenges faced by out-of-school adolescents and youth, particularly those affected by conflict, crisis, or forced displacement. 
Bridging the Gap: Strengthening the Evidence Base for Gender Responsive Education in Emergencies Year of publication: 2022 Author: Lauren Gerken | Sumbal Bashir Corporate author: The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) This brief was developed by the INEE Gender Task Team in response to global calls for more and better data and evidence on gender-responsive EiE. The brief draws from findings of the 2021 and 2022 editions of the INEE Mind the Gap report on the state of girls’ education in emergencies, and from consultations with gender and education experts. 
Sustainable Development Goals Progress Chart 2020 Year of publication: 2020 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) The Sustainable Development Goals Progress Chart 2020 presents a snapshot of global and regional progress by the end of 2019. It covers selected targets under the 17 Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the beginning of 2020, the Secretary-General launched the Decade of Action, calling for accelerated solutions by national and local governments, civil society organizations and the private sector to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. The progress chart shows how far we have come in realizing our commitments, and which areas require urgent attention. It also shows that, for most Goals, the pace of progress has been insufficient and substantial acceleration is needed. 
Report of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (General Assembly Official Records Sixty-fifth Session Supplement No. 41) Year of publication: 2010 Corporate author: UN. Committee on the Rights of the Child (UN. CRC) This report reviews the efforts of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, published in 2010. The report is considered a tool to review the Convention on the Rights of the Child and what has been done to achieve it. 
Our Common Agenda: Report of the Secretary-General Year of publication: 2021 Corporate author: United Nations (UN) “Our Common Agenda” report looks ahead to the next 25 years and represents the Secretary-General’s vision on the future of global cooperation and reinvigorating inclusive, networked, and effective multilateralism. The Secretary-General presented his report to the General Assembly in September 2021 before the end of the 75th session of the General Assembly. 
Egypt: Gender Justice and the Law Year of publication: 2018 Corporate author: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) The United Nations Development Program, in cooperation with UN Women, the United Nations Population Fund and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), has conducted a study on gender justice and the law. The study aims to provide an integrated assessment of laws and policies affecting gender justice and protection from gender-based violence. Gender in the Arab States Region This file focuses on Egypt.