Who can benefit from the Toolkit?

Advantages of the Toolkit:

The Toolkit is intended for those working at the nexus of education, child protection, human rights, academic freedom, sexual violence, and the protection of civilians.

With strengthened data systems, government ministries and humanitarian organizations can better protect education. Systematic evidence on the prevalence and impact of attacks on education, disaggregated by gender, can assist these same actors to improve gender-responsive implementation of the Safe Schools Declaration.

Useful across contexts

The Toolkit can be used to improve data collection and analysis in any context where attacks on education and the military use of schools and universities occur.

Users should consider the Toolkit a menu of options from which to pick and choose the most relevant techniques, indicators, and analyses. Tools are adjustable to partners’ needs, goals, and resources, as well as the specific attacks occurring in their context.

The Toolkit and related resources are available in several languages.

Useful for different needs and goals, from simple to complex

The Toolkit can support organizations already collecting data on attacks on education. For instance, the Toolkit can assist in analyzing gaps in data collection and disaggregation and suggest methods of reporting and analysis to enhance current work. The Toolkit can also refine existing monitoring and reporting tools, log frames, needs assessments, and databases.

Organizations that have not yet begun collecting data can also use the Toolkit to build a monitoring and reporting system from the ground up, from sectoral analysis to collecting data and sharing reports.

Useful for many types of data collection and analysis

For organizations collecting primary data, the Toolkit offers sample data collection forms, data entry templates, and a codebook. These tools are relevant across various data collection methodologies, from gathering incident reports to incorporating questions into a needs assessment.

Other organizations may not wish to collect primary data but instead to analyze different trends in attacks on education using secondary sources. In this case, the Toolkit identifies existing data sources and suggests analyses for these purposes.

Why collect and report data on attacks on education?

Who should use the Toolkit and why?