Refugee education policies explored

Dar es Salaam. Unesco yesterday released a Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM Report), exploring the education policy measures undertaken by host countries for migrants and refugees in Africa. Titled ‘Migration, Displacement and Education: Building Bridges, Not Walls’, the report focuses on migration and the social policies pertaining specifically to their education and assimilation.

“The 2019 GEM Report highlights numerous pioneering initiatives being taken by sub-Saharan countries for the education of refugees,” a press release posted by Unesco reads.

Findings from the report show that Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, together are housing over half of the region’s refugees and 12 per cent of the world’s refugees.

“The countries are also champions in particular for their positive approach to support the education of forcibly displaced children and youth, borrowing a leaf from countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan in their ambitions to sit refugees side-by-side by nationals in school,” it shows.

The Report also points at countries where a greater effort is required to integrate refugee children into national systems of education.