Publication: Evidence on Learning Outcomes for Refugees - a Rapid Review

Over the course of 2022, we worked with Mott MacDonald/Cambridge Education to support UNHCR globally in understanding the current state of governments’ ability to collect and manage meaningful data on access to education and learning outcomes for refugee learners.

This work has included a global study of what evidence is publicly available on learning outcomes for refugee learners, as well as four country studies looking at different countries’ current ability to manage data on refugees within national EMIS. A final synthesis study brings together evidence from all five studies in order to provide concrete lessons and future directions.

This rapid review of evidence on learning outcomes for refugees is the first of these pieces of research to be published. It brings together evidence from almost sixty studies, and asks the questions of what is being measured? by who? and for whom? This will serve to guide the sector on a) gathering more regular and rigourous evidence on a broad range of learning outcomes, and b) making sure that evidence is shared and used to improve the learning outcomes of refugee learners.