This report tells the stories of some of the world’s 7.1 million refugee children of school age under UNHCR’s mandate. In addition, it looks at the educational aspirations of refugee youth eager to continue learning after secondary education, and highlights the need for strong partnerships in order to break down the barriers to education for millions of refugee children.

This update of UNHCR’s 2012-2016 Refugee Education Strategy aims to ensure that refugees are increasingly accounted for in education sector planning goals and action plans.

In this article, we introduce some of the key tenets of Paulo Freire’s pedagogical vision of education for peace, social justice and democracy, and some limitations in terms of its application. In doing so, we aim to demonstrate its relevance and importance to conflict-affected contexts.

This policy brief brings together evidence from the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) and learnings from HEA grantees on government engagement for scaling humanitarian education innovations.

This policy brief brings together learnings from the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) External Evaluation Firm, American Institutes for Research (AIR), on the challenges and potential solutions for conducting rigorous research in humanitarian and crisis settings.