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Tag Archives: displaced populations
Our joint pledge to increase financing and coordination and improve education for refugees
Jointly authored by Yasmine Sherif, Director Education Cannot Wait, Alice Albright, CEO of the Global Partnership for Education and Keiko Miwa, Regional Director for Human Development of the World Bank The first Global Refugee Forum, which kicks off in Geneva … Continue reading
Internally displaced people and education in Syria
By Jen Steele, an education in emergencies specialist, and author of a background paper on IDPs and education in Syria for the Arab States 2019 GEM Report Internally displaced children (IDP) not only need better funding for education programmes, but … Continue reading
Leveraging technology to tackle the migrant education crisis in the Arab States
By Nafez Dakkak, Executive Chairman of Edraak at the Queen Rania Foundation Samia was 10 when she left her home for the first time and became a refugee. She was just about to enter 5th grade. Forcefully displaced from her … Continue reading
Busra has been trained to help Syrian children in Turkey who are suffering from the trauma of the war
This content comes from the interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. It tells a story that brings to life some of the key messages in our policy paper: Education as healing: Addressing the trauma of displacement through social and … Continue reading
New paper: Teachers need support to better help migrant and refugee students suffering from trauma
The number of migrant and refugee school-age children around the world has grown by 26% since 2000. Eight years on from the beginning of the Syrian conflict, a new paper released today and at an event in the Netherlands looks … Continue reading
George teaches in a double-shift school in a refugee camp in Kenya to increase access to education
This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. Low and middle income countries hosted about 89% of all refugees in 2017. About 52% of all refugees are under the age of 18. About … Continue reading
Displacement can exacerbate gender inequality in education
The effects of migration and displacement are usually considered to be the same for men and women. However, this is often not the case. It is important to recognize how gender relations in both origin and host communities influence women’s … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, migration, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged 2019 gem report, displaced populations, displacement, Gender, girls, migrants, migration
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Teachers multitask in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar camps for Rohingya refugees
This content comes from our newly released interactive youth version of the 2019 GEM Report. Anowar is a Rohingya refugee who has been living in Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh for over a year. He is a learning instructor in the … Continue reading
A new Qualifications Passport has global potential for recognising refugees’ qualifications
By Terje Mørland, Director General in the Norwegian Agency for Quality Assurance in Education (NOKUT) and Stig Arne Skjerven, Director of Foreign Education / Norwegian ENIC-NARIC in NOKUT and elected president of the European Network of Information Centres in the … Continue reading
The Global Compact on Migration: looking on the bright side
Last week, 163 countries signed the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. Most of the media coverage and commentary has been about those not signing or those threatening not to sign. The prime ministers of Belgium and Denmark … Continue reading
Posted in migrant, migration, refugees, Refugees and displaced people, Uncategorized
Tagged displaced populations, displacement, migrants, migration, refugees
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