Education in Emergencies, Lisa Woods (Communications Consultant/UNICEF ROSA)

As a UNICEF communications consultant for offices in Asia, Lisa Woods was called on to work on a Education in Emergencies toolkit to inform the emergency education response of UNICEF country offices in the region. For most of the eight UNICEF offices in South Asia, almost all all prone to natural disasters, some on an annual basis (floods and droughts) others subject to phenomena such as earthquakes. As such, there is a demonstrated need to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF country offices to plan and manage education in emergencies, in accordance with UNICEF’s Core Commitments for Children. Toward this end, UNICEF Regional Office for South Asia, in coordination with East Asia Pacific Regional Office and HQ New York, sponsored a workshop from 20-23 September 2005, to share best practices in education in emergencies, particularly in light of recent tsunami experiences, and to make recommendations for the content and skills of a UNICEF training package: Education in Emergencies: A resource toolkit.


What I did
-Reviewed all existing resource and training material on education in emergences.
-Synthesized information into a comprehensive content and skills outline, collect and write case studies of emergency responses from tsunami experiences, as well as from responses to other natural disasters and complex conflicts.
-Interacted with a review team to produce a final product to be turned over to an instructional designer and trainer to produce the final training package.

Related projects
Behaviour Change Communications in Emergencies