In this brief, we aim to 1) understand the socialization context Rohingya children living in the Cox’s Bazar Camps experience; and 2) explore the utility of rapid ethnography to understand evolving sociocultural contexts like refugee camps.

These workshops include high and low-tech resources, featuring children’s activities, caregiver articles, educational videos, and interactive digital games. Together, these themes, strategies, and resources support children and adults’ emotional wellbeing and lay the foundation for resilience.

In this brief, we outline the process and strategies used throughout to provide context and a path forward for future researchers to deliver quality research in this, and other, complex research environments with the ultimate goal of informing the types, design, and delivery of services to support families and foster resilience in these contexts for generations to come.

Our data show that Rohingya children demonstrate a tremendous amount of spontaneous and creative activity in their everyday lives, despite the many challenges in the Cox’s Bazar camps. This brief provides fresh perspectives into the remarkable resilience and creativity these young children possess.

In 2020 and 2021, NYU-TIES set out to better understand how parents perceive play in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. This brief highlights some of the most critical findings supported by multiple data sets, focusing in particular on the role of fathers in supporting playful learning and concluding with reflections on how these findings might be valuable for future program implementation and research.

يحتوي هذا المورد على 100 نشاط تعليمي مستجيب للنوع الاجتماعي - مبني على اللعب، حتى يشعر الأطفال بالسعادة ويعزز من تعليم وتطور كل الفتيان والفتيات والبالغين الممارسين للألعاب

This resource contains 100 gender responsive play-based learning activities to make children feel happy and promote learning and development for all boys and girls and adults who play.

Cette fiche contient 100 activités d’apprentissage par le jeu sensibles au genre. Elles favorisent la joie, l’apprentissage et le développement des garçons, des filles et des adultes qui y participent.

Drawing on an extensive literature review and numerous key informant interviews with practitioners and policymakers, the report examines the tenets of good teacher professional development (TPD) in humanitarian and development contexts, discusses the challenges to implementing good TPD, and highlights the key actors who influence teachers’ work. 

The LEGO Foundation Distance Learning Guide offers ideas, evidence and links to useful resources and learning communities, to help you make children’s distance learning more playful, engaging, joyful and effective, whether children are learning online or offline.