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Jump to: UN | UNICEF | UNESCO | ILO | UNGEI | Other , United Nations (UN), Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) : Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) Education Cannot Wait (ECW) : United Nations global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises Understanding Children’s Work (UCW) : An…, ...

Workshop templates

OOSCI branded workshop templates to be used by OOSCI national teams to develop presentations and process workshops. Four process workshop templates (Launch, Data and profiles, Barrier identification, and Policies and strategies) include a proposed workshop structure and content, which follow the agendas outlined i...

Social media templates

OOSCI branded social media assets to be used by OOSCI national teams to publicize OOSCI-related events and disseminate national studies and related products. Available for download in image or PowerPoint format. Image files: Facebook | Instagram | LinkedIn | X (formerly Twitter)

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Data Inventory and Quality Assessment Tool

This tool is designed to produce a comprehensive overview of data sources available in the context of an out-of-school children study, assess the reliability of each, and identify important differences between them that may lead to different estimates of the number of out-of-school children and children at risk of...

OOSCI Operational Manual: Policy and strategy recommendations

This section of the OOSCI Operational Manual includes guidance for choosing the policies and associated recommendations to support children, adolescents and youth in the seven dimensions of exclusion (7DE). It provides suggestions for writing and structuring the policies chapter of an OOSCI study. The purpose of t...

OOSCI Operational Manual: Barriers to education

Overview, In the OOSCI framework, barriers are understood as the factors that contribute to school exclusion. These may be push factors, which are exclusionary factors that originate within the schooling system itself (e.g., expulsion, irrelevant curriculum). Pull factors comprise those influences outside school t...

OOSCI Operational Manual: Data sources and profiles of children

View in full by downloading the OOSCI Operational Manual, Data sources and indicators, The data sources and indicators section of the OOSCI Operational Manual includes the steps required to source, appraise, and prepare the data needed to conduct an OOSCI study, identify gaps and limitations, and produce the basic...

OOSCI Operational Manual: Introduction

The purpose of the OOSCI Operational Manual is to guide out-of-school children studies and inform broader advocacy, analysis and engagement with out-of-school children and children at risk of dropping out. At the global level, the international community has adopted ambitious Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) tar...

Global publications and papers

We hope that these publications and papers help governments and partners to better target and support the most vulnerable children for inclusive and equitable quality education., Didn’t find what you are looking for?

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Children who miss out on school are among the most vulnerable and hard to reach in the world. They come from the poorest households and often have to work to help support their families. Some face discrimination as ethnic minorities. Others live with disabilities. Often they are girls. Half of the children who do ...

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About the initiative, Children who miss out on school are among the most vulnerable and hard to reach in the world. They come from the poorest households and often have to work to help support their families. Some face discrimination as ethnic minorities. Others live with disabilities. Often they are girls. Half o...