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Ukraine Education Cluster Dashboard (as of 31 December 2023)
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ActivityInfo platform is the new 5W tool for reporting to the Education Cluster both 2024 response achievements as well as planned activities/projects.
If you are the person in your organization responsible for reporting to the Cluster and you don't have access to the Education Cluster folder in ActivityInfo yet, send a request to ukr.edu.im@
Your account in ActivityInfo will be associated with your organization and once you have access you can submit reports on behalf of your organization. Please communicate with your partners/organizations to agree who is going to do the reporting as an activity should only be reported once. Double reporting is not allowed.
Training materials related to the Education Cluster ActivityInfo can be accessed using the following link: Training_materials_2024_edu
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FOREWORD The presented Education Cluster Strategy 2023-2025 serves as the foundation and guide for all those engaged in the humanitarian support and recovery of the education sector in Ukraine. It is the result of collaborative efforts by…
Ukraine Education Cluster partners convened in Kyiv on August 16th, 2023 to discuss issues of common concern and showcase innovations around education in emergencies (EiE) interventions. Approximately 100 participants representing 45 local and national NGOs, international organizations, and government agencies took part in a reflective panel discussion and thematic working groups to share lessons learned, including around effective communication among partners, support of quality teaching and learning, and localization.
The event proved to be a much-needed retreat for UEC participants, who were meeting for the first time since the large-scale escalation of Russia’s war against Ukraine in 2022. “I managed to finally see people face-to-face for the first time,” shared one of the local partners. “It was extremely useful to learn from other organizations’ experience and to present our projects for children.”
The event also hosted a Partners Forum Marketplace, where local and international organizations had a chance to share best cases, pilot projects or practices in Ukraine and vote on the most innovative and effective EiE interventions among those presented.
A local partner representative commented, “I am very impressed with this event; we met so many experts and had opportunity to discuss the most challenging topics of working in Ukraine. It was essential to share even our emotions about the situation, and I sincerely hope that we see the results of today converted into concrete action points for learners and teachers.”
The Ukraine Education Cluster (UEC) has been working in Ukraine since 2014, rapidly expanding its scope of work after February 24, 2022. In 2023, cluster partners collectively supported 1.1 million children and educators with educational services and distributions.
An integral part of the cluster approach is engaging children and parents at different stages of humanitarian program cycle inform concrete EiE response actions – from the initial needs assessments right up to decision-making at the policy level. At the event, youth facilitators shared their experiences working in peer-to-peer learning support initiatives run by local partners, where older children attending temporary learning spaces are paired with their peers or younger children to assist with schoolwork and provide psychosocial support. “I like the peer support part of the facilitation work in the temporary learning space the most,” shared one of the youth facilitators, aged 15. “When you can personally support a fellow learner, it feels empowering.”
Children were also engaged as speakers and participants in each of these events. During a during a panel discussion with representatives from Unicef, Save the Children, and the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science, Hordii, aged 14, a youth researcher, and journalist, shared children’s perspectives on the experience of learning amidst war. Exceprts of her speech are as follows:
“Humanitarian aid during war is a complex but extremely relevant issue for Ukraine now and education is the essential component of it.
During the last school year, I was involved in the assessment of education needs among boys, girls and teachers in schools in Ukraine that was supported by IREX and USAID. I was able to join the team of researchers to learn about educational needs directly from my peers and from the teachers. It was very hard to pinpoint the needs that were constantly changing. Today you learn about the need for bomb shelters in a school and tomorrow after the massive missile attack everybody discusses the urgent need in electricity and internet for learning.
Supplying humanitarian aid is essential to make safe learning accessible. The needs of educational institutions are still piling up, somewhere laptops are needed to keep up learning, others need a shelter to host a huge school community during air raid alerts. All of it costs a lot of money but sometimes even a small intervention can make a huge difference. For example, one of the schools was not able to put a ramp for the bomb shelter (otherwise ready to be used) and as a result it was not approved to allow children back to offline learning. School budget cannot cover the cost, but one ramp would have made a huge difference to enable children to get back to the classroom.
Our needs assessment allowed us to learn not only about the situation on the ground but also about the people, learners and teachers, who shared their experiences. United in the face of shared need, our people are capable of the impossible. But to succeed they need support, and they need opportunities to be heard and to be able to act upon the situation. This is especially true for children and youth. All of us are united by the same idea: if any opportunity arises, even the tiny one, to change the situation for the better many of us think “if not me then who?” And this thought comes to me and to you and to anybody else who knows the situation in Ukraine. I think it is this calling that unites so many volunteers and humanitarians across the globe who sent their support to us. It is this idea that allows us to make the world a better place.
Hordii’s full speech is available here
1.1 Partners displaying their work at the UEC market place, Photo Credit Ukraine Education Cluster
1.2 Hordi contributing to the Panel Discussion, Photo credit Ukraine Education Cluster
1.3 Children at thematic group discussion, Photo credit Ukraine Education Cluster
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is an online table for all partners to flag their interest in collaborations with other organizations (including for UHF joint proposals or any other activity-based collaborations). If you are on a look for partners as a local or international organization, please leave the information about your activities and expectations for partnerships in the online table along with your contact details.
is an online dashboard for partners to advertise humanitarian projects in need of donor support. We encourage organization searching for funding to place the short description of the project and requested funding amounts using the online sticky notes at the board (you will also be able to attach, photos, links or documents to your adverts). We encourage donors to check this space regularly in search of projects that you wish to support.