These guidelines intend to provide UNHCR and partner staff with basic tools on how to plan, implement and monitor urban education programmes with the objective to ensure quality services and a coordinated humanitarian response to meet the educational rights and needs of people affected by crisis and disaster, including refugees. They are aligned with INEE priorities for education in emergencies.

The Sudanese refugee children in Nairobi, Kenya, face xenophobia and discriminative urban refugee policies, which preclude their admission into public elementary schools in the city. To enhance educational access for their children, a Sudanese refugee community in Nairobi established a school for their children, despite their economic deprivation.

This report provides an evaluation of UN educational services for Palestinian refugees in Amman, Jordan by examining 5 schools run by the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). The evaluation is based on the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies and it draws on interviews conducted in June 2010 with teachers, parents, principals, students and UNRWA staff. T

The feature theme articles in this issue of FMR show why disabled people who are displaced need particular consideration, and highlight some of the initiatives taken (locally and at the global level) to change thinking and practices so that their vulnerability is recognised, their voices heard – and responses made inclusive.

The study examining the quality of IDP education in Georgia under the title "Not displaced, out-of-place"; is conducted in partnership with UNICEF, the Georgian Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Abkhaz Government in exile.

This dissertation attempts to determine the extent of educational opportunities available to refugees living in Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya. It examines challenges in educational provision faced by the Government of Kenya, United Nations organisations and local organisations working on the ground.

Zimbabwean refugees and economic migrants at the Central Methodist Church (CMC) Refugee House, in central Johannesburg have successfully established a combined school-St Albert Street Refugee School.

This paper draws data from an innovative research project tracing former refugee teachers who received teacher training from the International Rescue Committee (IRC) over a seventeen year long education program in refugee camps in Guinea (1991-2008).

This document discusses a case study of a school-based response to the ever-increasing numbers of orphans and vulnerable children. Schools as Centres of Care and Support (SCCS) is an innovative model built on the principles of a multisectoral partnership approach to tackling poverty, and HIV and AIDS and other infections.