Multistakeholder Pledge: Securing sustainable futures: sharing responsibility to include refugees in national education systems

Background

Whilst great strides have been made for inclusion in education for refugees around enabling policy and practice environments, significant shortfalls in provision and systemic challenges to achieving complete inclusion remain. Global commitments to inclusion are embedded in the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR). Many host countries, reflect refugee needs in costed education sector plans, but bottlenecks – in particular limited international cooperation and multi-year predictable financing – prevent meaningful, sustainable and equitable implementation of host country inclusion pledges. Building on the World Bank – UNHCR work on ‘Measuring the Impact of Hosting, Protecting and Assisting Refugees’, this session will therefore provide visibility to the needs of refugee hosting Governments, and to broker responsibility sharing.

Pledge description

The GCR clearly sets out the need to improve responsibility sharing and provide predictable multi-year support to this end. The ‘Measuring the Impact’ work by the World Bank and UNHCR found that including all refugee children into national education systems would cost $4.85bn annually. UNHCR and strategic partners will come together under this pledge to fully understand the needs of host governments and options to use existing and potential financing mechanisms to meet these.

Related pledges to match

GRF-00370 - Government of Afghanistan - Expand access for education for returnees. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00406 - Government of Chad - Renforcer le processus d’intégration des réfugiés dans tous les niveaux du système éducatif par l’inclusion des réfugiés dans la loi nationale de l’éducation, la poursuite de l’affectation d’enseignants tchadiens dans les écoles des camps, et la reprise de la gestion de tous les établissements des camps et sites de réfugiés officialisés par l’Etat Strengthen the process of integrating refugees into all levels of the education system by including refugees in the national education law, continuing to assign Chadian teachers to camp schools, and resuming the management of all the schools in refugee camps and sites recognised by the State.. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00420 - Government of Costa Rica - Acceso e Integración de la población migrante, refugiada y solicitante de refugio al sistema educativo costarricense / Access to and integration into the Costa Rican education system for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00459 - Government of Djibouti - Provide refugees with technical and vocational training to improve their socio-economic integration. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00460 - Government of Djibouti - Train and provide certification for refugee teachers and progressively include their remuneration in the national budget.. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00474 - Government of Egypt - Continue providing refugee children with access to education; commitment to ensuring access to education for refugee children within national education system in line with national education strategy for 2030; new national asylum law will consolidate framework for provision of education for refugees. Noting the example of Egypt’s integration of Syrian refugee children in their public education systems, requests for financial commitment. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00475 - Government of Egypt - Enhanced opportunities in Education: high quality education system to all, but inclusion puts increased pressure. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00479 - Government of El Salvador - Addressing the educational needs of displaced boys and girls, adolescents and youth, through psychosocial care and prevention of the risk of dropping out of school, including teachers in high-risk situations. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00506 - Government of Kenya - Strengthening support to refugee and hosting communities education. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00515 - Government of Ethiopia - Provide equitable, quality and accredited skills training to 20,000 host and refugees. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00535 - Government of Georgia - Enhanced access to education services for refugees and humanitarian status holders. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00577 - Government of Guatemala - Coordinar acciones con autoridades e instituciones educativas locales para la inclusión e inserción de NNA y jóvenes al Sistema Educativo Nacional / Coordinate actions with local authorities and educational institutions for the inclusion and integration of children, adolescents and young people into the National Education System. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00658 - Government of Indonesia - Provide access to basic and secondary education for refugee children. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00506 - Government of Kenya - Strengthening support to refugee and hosting communities education. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00704 - Government of Namibia – Education. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00750 - Government of Sudan - Integrate refugee education in the national education system in a gradual manner. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00779 - Government of Nigeria - Nigeria pledges to include refugees, IDPs, returnees and their host communities in National Government development plans. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00913 - Government of Rwanda - Expand technical and vocational education and training to benefit 30 % of refugees and host communities by constructing or upgrading TVET infrastructure in refugee hosting districts, equipping them, and allocating scholastic materials. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00918 - Government of Rwanda - Improve the quality of education by upgrading school infrastructure in refugee hosting districts, equipping them and allocating scholastic materials to accommodate refugees and the host community. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00750 - Government of Sudan - Integrate refugee education in the national education system in a gradual manner. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-00223 - Government of Türkiye - New schools will be constructed under FRIT II fund provided by EU Delegation to Turkey. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01002 - Government of Türkiye - Increased access to TVET institutions for refugees and host community children. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01004 - Government of Türkiye - Increasing the Number of Syrian and the Host Community Children Provided with Early Childhood Education Services in Turkey. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01005 - Government of Türkiye - Construction of new schools for Syrian Kids to provide quality education. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01018 - Government of Uganda - Promote access, quality and inclusiveness of the national education system for refugees and host communities. Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01032 - Government of Zambia - Pledge in the Area of Education (1). Find out more about matching this pledge.

GRF-01050 - Government of Zimbabwe - Increase access to tertiary education for refugees, asylum seekers and host community. Find out more about matching this pledge.

Leadership

• Host governments committed to the inclusion agenda
• Global Partnership for Education, Education Cannot Wait and World Bank (TBD): Anticipated updated joint pledge from multi-donor trust funds/MDBs: Anticipated new linked pledge to the launch of an innovative finance approach.
• ‘Bilateral Group of Friends’. Potential joint pledge between bilateral friends’ group, linked to the joint pledge from MDTF/MDBs: link to commitments on accountability mechanisms, a financial observatory and connections with disaggregation of beneficiaries across CMP and bilateral funds, and use of soft power in host countries and globally to support inclusion.
• Joint pledge from private sector foundations and partners, focused on aligning to the inclusion approach.

Contact details

Rebecca Telford, Senior Education Adviser, UNHCR, [email protected] / Ann Scowcroft, Senior Consultant, UNHCR, [email protected]

Calendar

• 1st June - Bilateral Group of Friends meeting
• July - anticipated event hosted by bilateral partner
• September - ‘Measuring Impact’ workshop, Jordan
• Aug and Oct - remote convening of pledge leaders