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Policy brief
Women who teach: recruiting and retaining female teachers in crisis settings
This brief provides an overview of evidence and gaps in the recruitment and retention of female teachers in emergency contexts and recommends actions for supporting female teachers’ wellbeing and...
Report
Time to Teach – Gabon
Teacher absenteeism is one of the biggest obstacles to educational progress and children's learning and poses a particularly serious problem in developing countries. In addition, the negative impact...
Report
Time to Teach – Togo
Although national politicians have recognized that absenteeism is a problem, there have been few studies on the factors, policies and practices that influence teacher attendance in Togo. The Time to...
Report
Time to Teach – Niger
Teacher absenteeism is one of the major challenges to achieving universal education in many developing countries. Previous studies have identified teacher absenteeism as a particular challenge in...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Pledging guidance on teachers and teaching in forced displacement situations
The Global Refugee Forum Task Team on Teachers (established in the lead up to the Global Refugee Forum 2023) developed a guidance for States and other pledging entities to effectively address the...
Report
Making teacher policy work
The report proposes a practical framework to uncover the “black box” of effective teacher policy and discusses the factors that enable their scalability and sustainability. The framework distills...
Report
Teacher management in refugee settings: Uganda
This case study aims to contribute to the burgeoning evidence base on teachers working in crisis and displacement contexts and to provide the Government of Uganda, UNHCR and other key partners with...
Manual / Handbook / Guidelines
Curation guidelines of the TTF Knowledge Platform: Policy Knowledge Hub and Teacher Resource Centre
The Knowledge Platform of the Teacher Task Force was created to become the knowledge hub on subjects pertaining to teachers, teaching and teacher policy, as well as offer a tool to facilitate...
Article
Bangkit semangat - raise the spirits: Teachers' vulnerability, resilience, and voice in postdisaster Indonesia
Based on an ethnographic study with teachers who experienced the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake in Bantul, Indonesia, this article contributes to a nascent body of literature on teachers’ work, their...
Policy document
Recommendations of the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession
The High-Level Panel on the Teaching Profession was established by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres following the Transforming Education Summit held in 2022. It was tasked with...
Report
Global Report on Teachers: Addressing teacher shortages and transforming the profession
The first edition of the new biennial Teacher Task Force and UNESCO Global Report on Teachers focuses on the global teacher shortage that hinders the achievement of SDG4 and the Education 2030 agenda...
Report
Summary report: WTD 2023 - Global pathways to an attractive teaching profession workshop
Summary report of the online workshop Global pathways to an attractive teaching profession, that was held on 6th October 2023 on the occasion of World Teachers' Day celebrations. The workshop, co...