The global compact on refugees intends to provide a basis for predictable and equitable burden-and responsibility-sharing among all United Nations Member States, together with other relevant stakeholders as appropriate. It represents the political will and ambition of the international community as a whole for strengthened cooperation and solidarity with refugees and affected host countries.

This background paper highlights specific challenges, lessons learned, practices, and actions to consider when aiming to provide quality, principles-based distance education (DE) in emergencies. The paper considers inclusion and equity to be key guiding principles for education in general and calls for their application across all education modalities, especially distance education.