Strengthening Data for Quality Education for Refugee Children and Youth

Client:              UNHCR

Duration:          2022

Geography:      Global, Cameroon, Chad, Kenya, Mauritania

Partners:          Cambridge Education/Mott MacDonald

Solutions:         Research, Organisational Learning and Growth

The inclusion of refugee children and youth in national education systems is a key goal of the Global Compact on Refugees, and a key strategic aim for UNHCR. This inclusion relies on having strong data to understand educational access and outcomes for refugee children and youth. As refugees are integrated into national education systems in host countries, there remains challenges in capturing and acting on data, disaggregating data within national data systems while maintaining ethical standards and a duty of care towards the protection status of refugee children. This presents particular challenges in weak systems for capturing and managing data on educational access and quality.

To help deliver on UNHCR’s mandate of supporting host countries with the inclusion of refugees, Oxford MeasurEd undertook research in partnership with Cambridge Education/Mott MacDonald to look at: i) what evidence exists globally on learning outcomes for refugee children and youth, and ii) best practice and challenges related to the inclusion and non-inclusion of refugee children in EMIS.

Key Activities:

• A global evidence review to map what is known about learning outcomes of refugees, including the production of an evidence brief and interactive evidence database and dashboard.

• Four country case studies covering countries which have taken varying approaches to including refugees in their EMIS.

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