Advocacy and resource mobilisation - OneResponse

Funding for education through the CERF
Advocacy and resource mobilisation
Success in securing CERF funding will be highly dependent on the
understanding of education in emergencies, and particularly education as a
‘life-saving’ intervention, among the CERF Secretariat, HCT, OCHA, and other
clusters.
UNICEF, as CLA, and the Coordinator can play a key role in fostering better
understanding through advocating for education in emergencies as a basic
human right, a priority for communities, and a critical form of protection (see
section 8.1.1).
Education Clusters have successfully secured CERF funding by establishing
that education can be a ‘life-saving’ and ‘life-sustaining’ intervention
for funding psychosocial support for teachers and children, as well as
temporary learning spaces which provide protective and life–saving
environments.
Education activities funded through the CERF 55
Criteria Activities Conditions
Provision of school tents and
other educational and
recreational materials to
establish safe spaces/learning
No recurrent costs funded
Interventions environments for male and
aimed at female learners of different
restoring age groups
educational
and
Emergency repair of primary
education facilities
No recurrent costs funded
recreational Initial teacher training in Only to support
activities for emergencies
establishment of initial
children and
teaching capacity. No
adolescents
recurrent costs for
during an
training
emergency Essential life-saving skills
(information on sexual and
other gender-based violence
[SGBV], mine risk
education, HIV/AIDS, health
and hygiene)
55 Extract from CERF (2007) Life Saving Criteria and Sectoral Activities (Guidelines),
included in the ‘Additional resources’ listed at the end of this section
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